Jan Oskar Hansen Poems

The dissonance of Images

Where is Haiti again? Or for that matter Chile? Both nations were on
the news only a few days ago. Earthquakes and tsunamis, was it not?
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Tourism (Tanka)

Tourists on the North Pole
They arrive there in choppers
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The Eagle.

Fair flowers amongst the rocks, flora of sorrow;
their petals fly like butterfly wings in the breeze.
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Smoke

From the Saga Island smoke rose. flames and rivers ran full of
icy water; the modern Vikings had been beaten and shamed.
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Meeting Angles

He had an overcoat on, looked hump backed and had a dreamy look
In his angelic eyes. I knew he was a seraph. He had bought a bag of
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Quiet sky reflection

The sky over Europe is silent, but there is fear in the air, few lemons no oranges
and no mangos for starters. When planes do not pollute the sky we starve.
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Reluctant traveler

Morning driving through the vast plateau of Spain, cowboys in their sheep skin coats
are ready to ride out to Inspect the heard, It is cold the horses are rearing to gallop.
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Old Ocean

They break up big boulders, near the houses where I live,
what I see used to be the bottom of an old ocean.
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