Poet Profile

Marcus Liljedahl

I work as an opera singer at the Gothenburg Opera House (since 1998), and I write haiku both in English and in Swedish.

late spring
a train slows down
into rain's stillness

a seagull's cry
in the sailors voices
rustling canvas

antique shop
the icon painting
still filled with bliss

winter graveyard
a fresh snow angel
by the exit

melancholy
the fallen plums stained
by the drizzle

deep winter
monet's garden blooms
in the art book store

Credits: "late spring" - Chrysanthemum 14 (2013); "antique shop" - Chrysanthemum 14 (2013); "melancholy" - Haijin Italia 11 (2013); "a seagull's cry" - The Living Haiku Anthology (Under The Basho, 2013); "winter graveyard" - The Living Haiku Anthology (Under The Basho, 2013); "deep winter" - Chrysanthemum 14 (2013).