Jan Oskar Hansen Poems

When parks have been fenced in and locked
And school play grounds shut down
Will children be safe or lose their freedom
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The Demise of MT

Margaret Thatcher is dead
But her legacy lives on.
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The Miner


Mining dust in outer space exploited planets full of
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If al-Qaida likes to talk to me they can do through
face-book as I’m too old to be a recruit to this splendid
group who wants the western people out of the middle east.
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The bay is green today like grassland a spring day
moments before it´s invaded by cattle and cowboys
with six shooters full of dust.
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Christmas Day
Christmas day no ships anchored in the bay which
has crested waves that turn into cream like spray
when reaching sandy shores.
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The Famous Footballer
There is a great sorrow over Portugal a dark cloud
of tears, the great footballer Eusebio has died.
All the great and mighty in the Portuguese society
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TV channels are going mad in their hunt for happy
Christmas tales, they have visited bald children
in cancer wards, giving away presents, which seem
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Sonata
It was about noon and I had nothing to do, I had not written
anything for a week, not since my girlfriend left me, had deadline
an article for a magazine, they wanted something about sharks,
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The Grimalkin
I had a black cat with a white chest, a beautiful tabby that slept
every day on my sofa. I went on a week´s winter holiday, and left
it snoozing, there was a cat flap and it could get out and find food
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