Jan Oskar Hansen Poems

Sea-Lion
I saw a seal in Durban big and sleek and its smile
Was wondrous, I think it had green eyes, right,
But, I'm not a very god swimmer and is sceptical
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Foreigner In Portugal
At the local shop I met an elderly woman, mind most
of the women I meet are elderly but this one was
primordial, she dropped her bag when seeing me and
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A woman's Man
Women in the merchant fleet are nothing new, there have been
stewardesses, on ships since the late fifties. Before that we had
to do with mess-boys to bring us and as they had little interest in
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Haiku
Old man
Spending his night
Finding a dream
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The Daughter

I looked her into her brown eyes and said, I love you,
just straightforward without any hesitation or reservation
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The Seeing Eye
This nature I see is mine it doesn´t belong to anyone else,
those winding roads with cracked asphalt, there has been
an earth disturbance at some faraway place, perhaps China
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The Trance

I sit on my stationary bike for half an hour a day,
it is incredibly boring if I have nothing to occupy my mind.
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An hour or so, but my mind keeping looking back to a past
as trying to find the moment when things went wrong and
contentment escaped. It easy to remember simple things
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The applause

I had a drink before to a poetry reading and since I was nervous
drank a few whiskeys and spoke dramatically about the plight of the Palestinians
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I knew of a woman

Who wrote a novel that sold 30 thousand copies,
there was a talk of making her novel into a film,
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