Piter Yedema († 2018) was RIXT-poet of the month April 2018.
You can read his original Frisian poem of that month here.
It is called ‘Land of birds ‘ and is published here in translation.
Piter Yedema performing
Land of birds
Most cruel of months is April
A lapwing turns mid-air
far sounds his tweet thin and shrill
Memories and desire are freed
from dead ground a winter long
The poverty of today soon gone
Then resounding loudly her bird song
New life gets the place all to itself
and happily they lived long after
© Piter Yedema Translation: Trevor Scarse
Fûgeltsjelân
Wreedste moanne is April
Oer de wjuk giet in âldhij
fier klinkt syn twiit tin en skril
Oantins en ferlangen komme frij
út deade grûn in winter lang
De earmoed langer skylk foarby
Doe klonk folút har fûgelsang
Nij libben krijt it ryk allinne
en lokkich libje se noch lang
© Piter Yedema