jan oskar hansen

Haiku

Snows only purpose?
To make my garden look good
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Autumn Leaf.

The fall leaves dance weren’t celebrating life,
but utter despair, they whirled around in
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A Day When Nothing Happened.

A perfectly quiet day is coming to an end no breeze rustles
amongst green leaf that have got a shimmer on from
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Sex and the older man


As an illness settles in my body, things I took
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Still Life

He sat in a rowboat, in the deep fiord, with
a bottle of vodka, a flask of tea, bacon butty
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Thanks for your poems,
Sorry, we cannot use them
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Taser him, taser everyone out there
who looks different from the norm
or answer back. Taser, them to they
wet themselves and taste dirt.
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I like to sleep late, almost till eight, my skeptical
duvet doesn’t like to blow its cover, so I pass
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Summer with my mother.


I t was the best summer I ever had or can remember,
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I was going to throw away unsold collections
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Decisive tourist
Chancellor Adolph Hitler
Visits Paris
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The Roman Soldier


It was late evening, when walking along the walls of
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Nirvana and all that.

Since I don’t believe in heaven or the place stokers
go too- called hell- include me in your dreams when
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So, how does it go? Ship ahoy sailor boy? I was going to write
from my life at sea, of salt water and romance in tropical nights,
but I can only remember, the old seafarers, who had no other
home than the temporary shelter a cabin on a ship gave.
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The fierce midday sun rules the street, shadows
are packed, many layers thick, in arcades and
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The Fifties.

Sleet, snow, cold and dark before noon, Hitler
is living at a ranch in Argentina; that wasn’t fair,
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Hangover Sonnet

Lucifer came, brought chocolate and sweet
Drambui. My bedroom reeks of self inflicted
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The Blue River (new version)
Arabic/Andalusia poem
Al-RUSAFI (1179)
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Reflection in a Window

From my window I can see morning haze, amongst
olive trees, I also see the outline of grazing sheep.
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The Butterfly

In Livorno, Italy, a place few tourists care
to visit, they spoke of the American girl;
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