Jan Oskar Hansen Poems

Published Poet

I wrote a poem 24 years ago,
I have forgotten it now,
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Costa Rica

In Puerto Lemon I met a girl, back then there were
many girls in Puerto Lemon, only she wasn’t of them,
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Lonely Christmases

In Lisbon 20 years ago – time frame unimportant-
I was invited to a Christmas party by my new wife
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The Poetry Reading a Sonnet
We stayed at a small hotel only brick throw away from one
of Paris’s famous hotel where British MP’s let themselves
be bribed just to stay there for a weekend with a cohort.
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Our Lack of Tolerance
The culture difference between Portugal and Norway are sometimes
baffling, like seeing a tribe of Ciganos waiting for one of their own
often for day with their offspring running around and they, the children
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The Ocean

When he heard, I had been a seafarer he wanted to know about
the ocean, “write it down for me, ” he said...What nerve.
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Gone Ashore Sonnet
I have sailed on many seas
they have various colours and smell,
but being indoors looking out
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spring sonnet

The vines are greening and the old man who owns the vines
was busy trimming them although it was Sunday and church
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Meandering in Piraeus
Sunday in Piraeus, a line of people outside a church
I joined the line and was inside given a bag of cakes.
The old woman behind me was refused a bag of cakes
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Today I took some photos of yellow flowers
in a field that used to be a battle ground
The locals know little about it, but I think it had
to do with access to the salt mines, and to think
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