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Triin Soomets

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dirt from the streets
under my nails

dirt from the streets
under my lids

dirt from the streets
under my tongue

dirt from the streets
under my skin

glittering dirt from the streets
the only thing that is worth
to be called
mine
 
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these cities where you have loved
they are similar somehow 
wherever around the world
 
they have the same streetcorners
they reflect the same river
there are the same clouds flowing
 
in some way they are similar
all these are your hometowns
 
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what are you writing about
asked a Palestinian poet
about love I answered
there is nothing else than love
a Palestinian poet agreed
yes really there is nothing else
when he read his poem in Arabic
tears run down his cheeks
sentimental, I thought
then the same poem was read
in English, it talked about
his family, that they were killed
in front of his eyes – his parents
his brothers and sisters and wife
and that there is nothing else
there is nothing else than love  
 
 
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Triin Soomets (1969) is an Estonian poet and prose writer. She arrived on the Estonian poetry scene in the famous collection of female authors Luulekassett '90, published in 1990, featuring her book of poems Sinine linn. Soomets has published more than ten books of poetry.






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