Best Finnish Poems

If this poem were in
Finnish, the pronouns
would have no gender;

so,

I love it.
Its hair falls and moves.
Its eyes are
opaque
as dust in a glass.


( a poem about love, gender and grammar....)...

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A beginner’s guide to basic conversational Finnish, from BADSEEDPRESS.

Includes all the most frequently used terms, phrases, & idioms.

Some examples:

Saunominen yhdessä. = Let’s sauna together. 

Voinko ratsastaa porojaan? = Can I ride your reindeer? 

Ei enää marinoitua silliä, kiitos. = No more pickled herring, thank you.

If...

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It was a first rate Finnish firetrap
Anyone who stayed was a big sap
I would have to be dead
To lie in that bed
Place not safe enough to take a quick crap...

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standing in the rain again
in the rain again I stand,
next to the Finnish truck driver waiving with a wet newspaper
or maybe it's a card deck, hand looks like a duck's beak
from the radio "Satumaa" sounds like fruits falling from trees
rolling down on the patio to...

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