Diana van den Berg Poems

Mama, most of all,
to your own family and to the nation
before your lifetime history
which embraced
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the dark has come
with no breathing
and no power of movement
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On the way to the supermarket
whom should she meet,
but a blue balloon floating by.
Who hasn’t?
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Takahira Yashima Hiroyuka Tomita
Takahira Yashima Hiroyuka Tomita
I want to learn Japanese
not because of your excellent performance
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“ He will be replaced by the new coach as from tomorrow,
and there will be scattered thunderstorms all over the country,
and that is the end of the news”
- with a smile and media mannerisms for the image.
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SUDDENLY ONE SUNDAY

Sleek, silver-grey spirits curving
with an easy grace
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“Flicka looks after all the horses.”
That’s what Karin said
to Caspin’s heartbroken mother
who told me
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A suite of 4 poems

GLANCE
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This is a suite of 7 short poems

LOST
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Sixty-five years
within this gardened home
dripping with peace,
and bird song,
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