jan oskar hansen

 

The transitory

Saw and touched her yesterday

Now I need a spade.

 

 

 

White house and roses

Soft carpet and hushed voices

Tactful chimney smoke.  

 

 

 

A dazzling woman

Deserves a beautiful poem

After she’s forty.

 

 

An ugly woman

Deserves a dazzling poem

Every morning.

 

 

 

We are yellow straws

sigh in an Indian summer  

wait for cooling fall.

 

 

 

The electric fan

scornfully circulate warm air

throws it in my face.

 

 

Today’s oppressive heat

will be a winter day’s dream

of a summer past.

 

 

 

September breeze… warm

has a thin layer of coldness

in unseen vapour.   

 

 

 

Grumpy old river    

the mountain cools the lake

sending a chilly note. 

 

 

Night rain fell
Soft as a lover's whisper
At first light.


 
Lone streetlamp
Bore witness to snow flakes
Falling gently


 
Sea mist came
As a white coat of silence
And nirvana sighed.


 
From an ash tree
Excess moonlight dripped
A treasure trove.


 
On the fenland
Escaped sunbeams danced
Late at night.

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