Jan Oskar Hansen Poems

Saying

I used to say the elephant, people and the giraffe are not needed.
How wrong I was the elephant reminds us how small we are and
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Saying

I used to say the elephant, people and the giraffe are not needed.
How wrong I was the elephant reminds us how small we are and
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Ethnicity
When I came to England
I couldn`t get a job opened a café instead
in a district called Wavertree, Liverpool
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Vanishing flowers

On the bush near the terrace, the one sparrows
pick small leaves for their nests the red roses are falling off
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Biography

The wind blew hard last night
the bedroom window was open I was too lazy
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The merchant ship
The ship leaves Rotterdam
sail to the med, and through the Suez channel
into the red sea, the vessel arrives at an oil terminal
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Onceupon a time

I was, it seems like 100 years ago,
on an old fashion cargo ship, the carried all sorts
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The murderous Garden
My childhood`s garden looked wonderful
this early summer, full of flowers trees and bushes
barefoot I walked into this wonder.
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A voyage to Greenland

Greenland is the largest island in the world, but it is not a continent
I looked up Nuuk the capital up on the YouTube; it is now a modern town
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Religion and a poet
When I was nine years of age I came to see religion
as a fairy tale and as we know the bible is written
by many scribes during a time, some of them were wise.
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