Jan Oskar Hansen Poems

Singers
I wanted to be a singer of popular tunes, but I didn’t have
The voice for it, sounded like humpback a whale’s mating
call it was said; how would they know I swam with whales
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Small Beginnings

To record the simple things in life is important because they are a mirror
of everyday folks life. “A Person collided with a hand cart a suitcase fell
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The Black -winged Bird.
A bird with enormous wing span is darkening
the sky over the Middle east and there is much
bloodshed as always when a new nation is born
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The Sky
On the flatland on the western coast where the wind
blows unhindered by mountains and forest, I think for
the first I saw how limitless the sky was.
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The Man who hates Israel

Today we had lunch at a restaurant called Israel and,
yes it was Jewish but I didn’t see an Islamist bomber
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The Unsung
The bus home stopped at a fish factory, women entered
they had been working overtime and the smell of their
work was overpowering and I said nothing because this
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A Baccallao Sonnet

The man who runs the small cafe at the petrol station
not far from my home, rang he was serving baccallao
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Easter Remembered.

When the sun glares
there are no shadows the shine
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Female Werewolf
It was, perhaps it still is, popular to take aerial pictures
of farms, frame them, visit the relevant farms and try
to sell them. I had a suitcase full and walked from farm
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The was a sea in Russia that disappeared sand dunes,
rusting ships and rib cages of sailors sticking up out of
the ground as a warning, fight nature be prepared to lose.
The Aral Sea it had fish aplenty, now it is a ghostly place
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