Jan Oskar Hansen Poems

Three short poems
An Echo of a Song.

As vapour trail of past dreams
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Senryu

Perfect rose shivers
Fears being picked at dawn
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Earthquake in Haiti

The corpses look like they have been flung down from the sky,
rejected by god for being too poor. Broken limbs and stillness in
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The Phone Call

Phone rings I finally answer, it’s my daughter she wants to come home.
“Where are you ringing from? I ask she doesn’t know. Tell her I have no
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The Great encounter

The mountains, that kept the sky from strangling us,
has all but disappeared. The sky has now swallowed
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She only exist in a dream
She only existed in a dream an old man dreamt, in his lonely cottage,
when sitting by the fireside patting his dog’s head. Knock on his door,
there she stood looking a dream and since he knew her he invited her
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Lost At Sea

It was a quiet night when I woke up in the small cabin I shared with
the other deck-boy. The porthole was open and brought a welcoming
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Tanka

Accept old age
The smug tellers of lies say
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Brotherly Love

My brother, who worked at a coal mine, came for a visit;
he is a man easily prone to bitterness, his lack of funds is
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