jan oskar hansen Poems

US Soldiers.


Full of propaganda and democratic zeal
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Look back in Sadness.
(Written as Tanka)
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Inconsequent Calamity.

Men in suits carrying cardboard boxes out of a bankrupt
finance house, it isn’t money they carry out but private
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The Heat Before The Rain.

The blue bird that flew over the houses had wings that
cast shadows in the olive grove, the docile mule bolted
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Birthday


In the doorway of
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Television


My sister’s was the first in our street to buy TV,
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Tomorrows World


So the world is a changing greed has failed,
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The Jogger

They said he had invented jogging and he was quite
addicted to his invention, ran every afternoon longer
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October


Woke up with a start, the night was cold
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Haiku

Summer sunlight
Filtered through green leaves
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