Jan Oskar Hansen Poems

Eternal Screen
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The Friendship

Sven and I were best friends sailed on the same ship together.
he as a third officer and I as a cook. We were both interested
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Sit By the River


The dripping tap, ticking clock, the long nights
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From Teheran with Love.

Side by side the beaus stood, hooded and
silent, they no longer heard charivari chants as
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Senryu

As the night thickens
And darkness tranquilises life
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Man & Tree.

There was a spruce tree in the forest, he had
watched it grow from spindly sampling to
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Cylindrical Mirrors

Crossing the raven waters of a deep fiord
he saw a light and fell into a dream, woke
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Tanka

For those who are dead
The planet doesn’t exist
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France is more than Paris


This dark, unfriendly French provincial town, only,
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