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Saturday 25 April 2009

ARVO METS


Arvo Mets (1937 – 1997)
Born in Estonia, and educated at St. Petersburg Universityand at Literary Institute in Moscow. lived most of his life in Moscow where he edited several literary magazines, including Novy Mir New World. Started writing poetryin the early 1960s,and also translated Estonian poetry to Russian. Three criticallyacclaimed collections of hispoetry miniatures were published in Moscow and Tallinn.His Selected Poems appeared in Moscow in 1992.




Haikus

Blustery wind
we‘re caught in the golden blizzard
of falling leaves

A tiny feather
descending –
birdless sky

The train screams
and slows down –
three silver firs on the pane

2 comments:

Quoyle said...

this is a good piece!

I always have deep appreciation towards haiku and wanted to understand how to write it...and still researching.

Im happy to drop by your blog again.

cheers!

ELAINE ERIG said...

Mysterious Drole, I believe that soon you will be composing many haikus.