Obe Postma (1868-1963) is one of the great Frisian poets of the twentieth century.
A farmer's son from Koarnwert in Friesland, he worked as a teacher of physics and mathematics during his professional career. He also developed a keen interest in history and philosophy, and in his early thirties started writing poetry, a vocation which continued for the next sixty odd years.

As op 'e earste rige yn de bioskoop
sjogge wy, rjochtop yn'e stoel op it terras
de ferlitten flakte oer, blau metalen
heuvellân en ûngenedige fierte.
Klanken fan Debussy kringelje tin as
reek oer it omtrint ferwylge tún.
Under it bonkehurde ljocht boppe
Four Acres Hill is ús it útsjoch tombe.
Gjin kop dy't wat seit of it moast wêze
de stilte dy't al ferpulveret.