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Best Poems Written by Olavi Koskela

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Long Ago, Again

I never said it to you
blind you were not, after all.

But then when there was no way forward
I could have said something, like:

I want to stay here, in this place, now that there still 
is a feeling of your hand in mine.
I don't need you to remember, but
I want to say it now, this once, I want to look this once
into your eyes when I say it
so that I have something to get back to
from beyond time and place
a signpost in the world, a candle in the dark:

I love you

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Last Letter

Back home in cold rain
I realized another summer is come and gone
- where do they go, anyway?

Somehow I missed the chance to say goodbye
to you
too many damned people running round in cycles,
I guess

You remind me – and how I need reminding
that there can, must be a difference.
Farewell.

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Fragment of a Song

…
and in my mind
I'll always be the guy
who never once
gave up the dream
of clean whole-hearted life
of endless stars in nightly skies
and in the pair of bluest eyes

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Only One

Only one world, one blue sky
only one life, a love lasting it

a single-
minded man.

Smile, turn, set sail.

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Long Time Ago

That azure day, a starlit eve of spring, long time ago
I realized at last, irrevocably
that I would love that slip of a girl all my life
that no-one else would be her way one with the land, 
a part of the landscape
the forest natter of none in the same way

Long ago, when I could hardly foresee
what it would require and with interest claim
and that love for that blue-eye
would measure me relentlessly, without residue