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#Leino
Kimmo’s Revenge (Kimmon kosto), Eino Leino
As so often, Leino’s metre sounds very odd if transposed directly. I took the decision here to improvise a regular metre that I think may capture Leino’s sound. A warning: this p…
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January 10, 2026 at 1:38 PM
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#epiphany
Another Epiphany
The splendid others blunder, beata starstruck path to others forcedby others to be counted asanother’s pastoral pageant tells.This other tale, by other told -a publican, whom others feared -reminds…
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January 6, 2026 at 7:40 AM
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#leino #HymyileväApollo #SmilingApollo
Smiling Apollo (Hymyilevä Apollo), Eino Leino
I have a notion that this may be the first English translation – I haven’t been able to find another. I’ve kept as closely to Leino’s shifting meter as possible – adju…
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December 31, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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October (Lokakuu), Saima Harmaja
. Harmaja died of tuberculosis at 23. A short life in very difficult times… . Glimmers over mucky field crude the light of lanterns’ yield. Clatters loud the window pane tortured by the rain.…
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October 1, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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Kotka ja Tampere – oletteko siellä? #101finglishmiä -kirjakiertueeni jatkuu ensin Kotkaan tänään ja sitten Tampereelle huomenna. Uutta blogissani: www.galvia.fi/post/huomio-...
Huomio Kotka ja Tampere!
Valtakunnallinen 101 finglishmiä -kirjakiertue jatkuu.
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September 24, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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#Leino #Ukraine
Hail to Ukraine (Terve Ukraina), Eino Leino
Leino wrote this on 29 June 1917, less than three weeks after the declaration of the Ukrainian People’s Republic on 10 June. Hail to Ukraine! To the glorious sounding,Cry of white haze of the…
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August 24, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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#Pushkin #Пушкин
The Nightingale and the Cuckoo (Соловей и кукушка), Alexander Pushkin
In woods, where nights are dark and lazy,The vernal singer plies her crazyBe-whistled, growling medley’s storm;But there the cuckoo, idiotic,Declares its self-love’s note hypnotic,Repeats its cucko…
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August 14, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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#Tsvetaeva #Цветаева

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“I like the fact that you’re not sick from me…” (“Мне нравится, что вы больны не мной…”, Marina Tsvetaeva
I like the fact that you’re not sick from me,That if I’m sick it’s not your complication,I like it that the heavy earth can beBeneath our feet and there still hold its station.I like it that our jo…
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August 9, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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Sophia #Parnok София #Парнок
“Do you recall the narrow corridor” (“Ты помнишь коридорчик узенький”), Sophia Parnok
Do you recall the narrow corridorThrough currant bushes there?Since then you have become the music forMy dream. My homeland rare. You have contrived to be my life and death –My fragile, fragile one…
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August 8, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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#Парнок #Parnok
“Oh, today I do not want you” (“Не хочу тебя сегодня”), Sophia Parnok
Oh, today I do not want you.Of your words let there be none.Memory, pimp in vain, but don’t youIntroduce me to someone. Don’t lure them where darkness tarriesDown abandoned place’s slipsT’wards the…
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August 4, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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#ArsenyTarkovsky #АрсенийТарковский
“Where burial mounds the steppe were kissing…” (“Где целовали степь курганы…”), Arseny Tarkovsky
The world caught me, but it won’t take me. Grigory Skovoroda’s own epitaph Where burial mounds the steppe were kissingWith grass-locked face like hunchback’s stoop,Where drums were playing, odd bea…
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July 8, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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#nocturne #leino
Nocturne, Eino Leino
Eino Leino (1878-1926) is one of the great figures of the Finnish National Romantic movement, and played a major role in the emergence of modern Finnish poetry. This poem’s linking of the lon…
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July 6, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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Evening, Jurgis #Baltrusaitis
Evening (Вечер), Jurgis Baltrušaitis
The twilight nears, and all the world is merging,Both great and small into a single thing…And you alone, my living soul is urgingResistance to the boundless world it brings. Alone amidst the curse …
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June 16, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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#Pushkin
The Bronze Horseman (Медный Всадник), Alexander Pushkin
I’ve spent the last two weeks or so immersed in Pushkin. I have striven to be completely faithful to his metre and rhyme scheme. It’s a work in progress, and probably always will be &#8…
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June 6, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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#Akhmatova
“For many years in vain I waited so.” (“Ждала его напрасно много лет.”)
For many years in vain I waited so.It was a time of endless-seeming slumber.But on Palm Sunday Eve three years agoThere shone a light undimmed no one would cumber.No word escaped my lips now for a …
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June 4, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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#visitation
Visitation 2020
The foetus leaps in greeting toanother greater. Womb’s constraintcannot disguise the jolt.Incarnate love enshrinedmeets craggy cousin borne by onewho’s long since past the age.Two scandals twine an…
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May 31, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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#Ascension
Ascension 2020
Now here’s the rub. The Lord has gone.The more the resurrection’s spun,the more the tale of death defeatedplants question that for Mark was moot.Where is he now, this bag of bones?The one whose sid…
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May 29, 2025 at 5:41 AM
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#Ararat
Ararat
The fabled ark restedherewe’re told.And so the promise, setapart,elusive, speaksof God’s peace with human beingsthat remainsbeyondour grasp,for we are not at peacewith ourselves.The thing we needwe…
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May 11, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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Easter 2025
The living are among the dead,and we have made it so. It’s whywe miss the rhetoric and headtowards the glib well-furrowed liethat no demand is made by onewhose mass-wrought lonely passion’s crosswe…
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April 23, 2025 at 6:39 AM
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Vigil
A shred remains. Is it enough? For in the huddled doubt of darkness a handful fumble, dare perhaps, to hope. Or not. Creation’s vastness can only make it very fragile – the pin-prick shivers, sputt…
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April 19, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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By Way of the Grain (Путем зерна), Vladislav Khodasevich
This poem, written in the tumultuous year of 1917, sealed Khodasevich’s reputation. A few years later, however, he went into exile, which meant that he was ignored for decades in the Soviet U…
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April 19, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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#GoodFriday
Good Friday 2020
It is finished. Now the wait.Passion-wrought, all life is caughthanging by a broken thread.Hope is fixed on one who’s dead.Human fate with failure bought.Virus-ravage in full spatewreaks new passio…
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April 18, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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Maundy Thursday 2022
Caravaggio, The Taking of Christ. National Gallery of Ireland “When he had gone out, Jesus said, ‘Now the Son of Man has been glorified, and God has been glorified in him.” (John 13.31)…
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April 17, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Kannatan lämpimästi suhteiden normalisointia Venäjän kanssa, kun
1) Venäjä on vetäytynyt Ukrainasta
2) sodasta vastuulliset on toimitettu tuomiolle Haagiin ja
3) Venäjä on korvannut Ukrainalle aiheuttamansa vahingot viiimeistä kopeekkaa myöten
Kreml tarttui Stubbin avaukseen: Putin avoin normalisoimaan suhteet Suomeen
Venäjän hyökkäys Ukrainaan vuonna 2022 jäädytti maiden suhteet.
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April 1, 2025 at 4:51 PM