Jan Oskar Hansen Poems

Unsentimental

Overcast this Saturday the clouds are light grey
letting in light on the dark water.
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The song contests

I came across an apple tree it looked like
a child's idea of this type of tree, big red
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Senryu

Endless summer heat
In January when cars won't start
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The lonely cabin

I knocked on the door of the small cottage
the window steamed up I drew a childish picture
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The Wish

I dream of sleeping in a bed of rose petals like an Indian potentate
who waits for his favourite concubine to come to join him in his bed?
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Lost Chances

On a crowded Christmas Street, I saw her
something of the way she walked, I sensed her perfume
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The occupied

Never negotiate
With the conquering invaders
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The boxer and the actor

I saw them on the sidewalk near The Radio music Hall
in New York, Jack was telling Alan a joke
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Beer Sonnet

I have a bottle of German beer in the fridge
and naturally cloudy, first brewed in some small town
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The Intrepid

Tall Savannah grass, he had to drive on its only road it was narrow
had no pavement, he rode his scooter could see the ears of big cats
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