Jan Oskar Hansen

….And Sweet was My Love

I had met her in the town where I went to school,
about an hour train ride from my town. She was
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A Cigarette


Dawn, yes and the mist, what else do you
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A Cairo Rose

Lily white was his shirt
A red rose sprung from his chest,
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…And It Was Her Summer


“Go back to the children’s home, she said I have no work and
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There had been much rain in the upland and the river ran
full and strong, so forceful that a pillar, on the old bridge,
broke off and half of it fell down.
Misty night when a bus crossed the bridge, plunged down
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Celebrated Accident

Beautiful rainbow over the valley
I saw a man climb up its bow only
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A Christmas Remembered

Day before Christmas it was cold and we walked down
to the harbour to buy a tree and I remember the sea
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A Beautiful Song. (Ink Spots)

“I don’t want to set the world on fire” what a lovely song.
But I’m disturbed by sparrows, sit in my orange tree and
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Meat is Meat (a christmas tale)

Santa came running up the road his coat was open
exposing a hairy belly, arms full of parcels, asked
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4 Haiku for the spirit

To fly far away
Let clouds absorb unhappiness
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I remember tiny things picking up a burnt match
from a floor wondering who threw it there.
A May day in St. Malo, I saw an old man crying
streaks of tears down rumpled chin.
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Haiku
September drizzle
Sombre green olive trees weep
Dripping foliage
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Child chews on duvet
Ciggy smoke from living room
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Senryu

As quiet rain fell.
In a pond ringed by quartz,
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“25th of December

It’s been raining for days, fine drizzle not caused by tempest but
by a mild depression, liquid silk that gives soil time to soak it up
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Zen

I will think
Of nothing
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Wet dog
Looks into a rain pool
Contemplative
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A Cairo Street

The crack of a rifle shot a man fell to ground,
instantly dead, whatever he was thinking of was
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3%

My shirt is torn I’m bloodied by thorns of anger. The bushes by the narrow track
are almost covering It, I tried to fight my way trough, the maze but lost. I have to
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9/11

The man, in the prize received picture, falling down from
the twin tower was flying…he knew he was descending
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