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Jürgen Rooste

***[ma olen laulev luukere]

  • 1 Kassa armastad mind igaviku ääreni | Translations: svendeno
  • 2 ***[Tallinna südalinn on ilus] | Translations: frnlende
  • 3 Higgsi boson | Translations: enfrhufiru
  • 4 Kosmosevolinik | Translations: enfrhu
  • 5 Tänavanurkade muusikud | Translations: enfrhu
  • 6 Üks asi millele mõtlema hakkasin päev pääle mu vanatädi surma | Translations: enfrhude
  • 7 Darwin ja Kuu | Translations: enfi
  • 8 RUKKIKURISTIKUKOLL | Translations: fi
  • 9 ***[ma olen laulev luukere] | Translations: enfide
  • 10 3 PÕHIMÕTTELIST VÄIDET INIMSUSE TEEMADEL | Translations: fisv
  • 11 ***[milleks on vaja luulet] | Translations: ensvde
Language: estonian
Translations: english (***[i'm a singing skeleton]), finnish (***[olen laulava luuranko]), german (*** [ich bin ein singendes Skelett])
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***[ma olen laulev luukere]

ma olen laulev luukere
ma olen koletukummituslik
täiskuuööperemees

ja seisan videvikutunnil
hingesunnil
su avatud akna ees varjudes

sa arvad et sa näed
jubedat und
aga tegelikult

näeb see jube uni
hoopis
sind

ta piilub su kardinate vahelt
tühjades silmakoobastes
kummitamas kirevälgatus

kolp kenasti kummergune

luisest kõriorelist tõusmas
üks tõrjutu
armutörin

ma olen laulev luukere
olen õudõõvastav vaimudetunnimees
su pitskardinaist rüütet akna ees pimeduses

aga täna kutsutakse mind
ARMASTUS
ja teist nime ei leita

Written: 2011
© Jürgen Rooste
From: Kuidas tappa laulurästikut
Verb, 2011
ISBN: 978-9949-9124-4-5
Audio production: Eesti Kirjanduse Teabekeskus [Estonian Literature Centre], 2014
Categories: love

Translations:

Language: english

***[i'm a singing skeleton]

i'm a singing skeleton
i'm the ghastly-ghostly
master of the full-moon night

and i stand at dusk
compelled, a must
in the shadows before your open window

you think you're seeing
a nasty dream
but actually

that nasty dream is
seeing
you

it peers at you from between the curtains
a glint of passion haunting
its empty eye sockets

its skull satiatingly spherical

rising from its bony windpipes comes
a spurned
love-purr

i'm a singing skeleton
an abhorrent watchman of spirits
cloaked in your silk curtains in the darkness


but today, i am called
LOVE
and there's no other name to be found

Translated from Estonian by Adam Cullen
Language: finnish

***[olen laulava luuranko]

olen laulava luuranko
olen hirvittävän kauhistavan kauhea
täydenkuunyön isäntä

seison hämärän rajamailla
sielujen lailla
piilotellen avoimen ikkunasi takana

luulet näkeväsi
pahaa unta
mutta oikeastaan

paha uni
näkee
sinut

se tuijottaa sinua verhonraosta
ja sen tyhjissä silmäkuopissa
leikamoivat himon salamat

sen pääkallo on passelisti pyöreä

kurkun luisista uruista kohoaa
torjutun rakkauden
murina

olen laulava luuranko
olen kauhistuttava sielunvartija
sonnustautuneena silkkiverhoihisi ikkunan takana pimeässä

mutta tänään on nimeni
RAKKAUS
eikä muuta nimeä ole oleva

Suomentanut Hannu Oittinen
Language: german

*** [ich bin ein singendes Skelett]

ich bin ein singendes Skelett
ich bin ein schauerlichspukhafter
Vollmondnachtgebieter

und stehe in der Dämmerungsstunde
seelengetrieben
in den Schatten unter deinem geöffneten Fenster

du denkst dass du
einen bösen Traum hast
aber in Wirklichkeit

hat dieser böse Traum
vielmehr
dich

er linst durch deine Gardine
in den leeren Augenhöhlen
spukt ein Leidenschaftsblitz

der Schädel schön gewölbt

aus der knöchernen Gurgelorgel steigt
eines Verstoßenen
Liebesgeplärr

ich bin ein singendes Skelett
ich bin ein grauenerregender Geisterwachtposten
in der Dunkelheit vor deinem spitzengardinenbekleideten Fenster

aber heute nennt man mich
LIEBE
und einen anderen Namen findet man nicht

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Jürgen Rooste

photo © Jüri J. Dubov
* 31.07.1979, Tallinn, Estonia
lives in: Tallinn, Estonia

Jürgen Rooste (born July 31, 1979 in Tallinn) has worked as a journalist, a teacher, and the director of the Estonian Institute in Finland. In addition to his own poetry collections, he has published a number of joint books with friends.
Furthermore, he has composed textbooks and dictionaries, organized poetry evenings and festivals since 1998, and has run the Cabaret Interruptus poetry-theater. Rooste has won Estonia's annual award for poetry on two occasions.

   
 photo © Jüri J. Dubov
Publications
  • 21. sajandi armastusluule

    poetry

    Tallinn: Verb, 2008

  • Tavaline eesti idioot

    poetry

    Tallinn: Jumalikud Ilmutused, 2008

  • Eesti haiku

    Poetry of Asko Künnap, Jürgen Rooste and Karl Martin Sinijärv

    Tallinn: Näo Kirik, 2010

  • Kuidas tappa laulurästikut

    poetry

    Tallinn: Verb, 2011

  • Higgsi boson

    poetry

    Tallinn: Näo Kirik, 2012

  • Laul jääkarudest

    poetry

    Pärnu: Jumalikud Ilmutused, 2012

  • Elutants

    Poem. Written together with Doris Kareva

    Tallinn: Verb, 2013

  • Kõik tänavanurkade muusikud

    poetry

    Tallinn: Näo Kirik, 2013

  • Suur sume, suur tume

    poetry

    Tallinn: Verb, 2014

  • Nimed, sõnad, nõiamärgid: 4x(4+4)x4 = noor eesti luule

    Names, words, witch's symbols : 4x(4+4)x4 = young Estonian poetry

    8 young Estonian poets in 8 languages

    Tallinn: Eesti Kirjanduse Teabekeskus, 2015

  • Ideaalne abikaasa

    poetry

    Pärnu: Jumalikud Ilmutused, 2015

  • Vana hiire laulud

    poetry

    Pärnu: Jumalikud Ilmutused, 2015

  • Luuledisco ehk Alle Leute Wollen Tanzen

    poetry

    Tallinn: J. Rooste, 2016

  • Onerva ja Eino Leino igavene armastus läbi seinasisaliku läbi kodutu kassi silma

    poetry

    Pärnu: Jumalikud Ilmutused, 2017

  • Sagittarius A*

    poetry

    Tallinn: Trükiviis, 2020

  • Signaal surnud tähelt

    poetry

    Trükiviis, 2021

  • Loimurite laul

    poetry

    Tallinn: Näo Kirik, 2022

Awards
  • 2005 Estonian Cultural Endowment's Award for Poetry

  • 2007 Friedebert Tuglas Short Story Award

  • 2012 Tallinn University Literary Award

  • 2013 Estonian Cultural Endowment's Award for Poetry

  • 2023 Estonian Cultural Endowment's Award for Poetry

Links
  • Estonian Literature Centre

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