Jan Oskar Hansen Poems

Senryu

I’m a cowboy
Herding in reluctant words
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Waterloo

200 years ago Wellington and Blucher with soldiers
made up of ruffians and ISIS type henchmen, beat
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Slow Progress (a long sonnet)

In the last seventy years, little have changed
of technical innovation. we had radio, then
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Charger Sonnet

the horses on the pampas are more
friendly than the Russian horses on the steppe
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Charleston Dance

In white America there is a fear of black people the slaves
that dared answer back it has its heart in the idea of
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Just another Sunday

On my travel along country lanes
this Sunday afternoon I saw a tree
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Looking for a Poet

In Alexandria, the town before Washington, I waited for
the bus, it didn’t stop, but then it did and my face was the
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Sausage Factory
On my travels on the countryside I saw this disused road
with weed sprouting through cracks in the asphalt
Followed the road and came to a village that was empty
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Bachelor Day
It was father’s day he got up early and
drink coffee near the phone just in case
his daughter rang.
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Ruben, The Teaser
I knew it was her when she entered the cafe
had seen her before in a fake painting behind
a bar in downtown New York this Rubenesque
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