Jan Oskar Hansen Poems

Going home.

On the plain of Alentejo
sacred green grass ornamented with white flowers.
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Epigram
Beware of tradition it can be harmful and Intolerant
Hateful of those who do not share your way of life
New ideas will be met with scorn old ways was best.
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Quiet Despair

In a besieged town
In Syria
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After the Concert
…And now in the afternoon of my life
my thoughts are about love and romance
these pesky things that disturbed my tough
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The Semitic People
I Like the Jewish people lived among them
in Wavertree, Liverpool like me small shop- keepers
and they often came to my café for coffee.
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Haiku
Notes of music
Fell into the ocean
Undulating
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A different Sonnet
Sunlight from early morn and not
Far from here the Azores a cyclone
Lashes onto shores and makes the island
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A Middle-Aged Love Story

Both were in their late forties when they met he had a good job
chief of something important in the world of oil exploration and
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My Way
I saw the three tenors sing "I did it my way" mind, the fat one died,
and the two others hate each other and never appear in public if
they can avoid it. Of the two one looks like an aging matinée idol
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In Europe women have
A better education
And fewer children
Then before when
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