Jan Oskar Hansen Poems

tabula rasa


when a child has no memory
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Depression

I wrote a poem that made me depressed
it took out me my natural sense of optimism
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haiku, the beginning of fall
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Silencing opinion

On france24 a TV Channel a red haired lady an enemy of a man
that is not yet a president of the USA, said something strange:
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Security guard

I was broke, no work for me at the shipping office,
got a job guarding tractors; sat in a hut that was cold and had no heating
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Baku


In Baku (the then Soviet Union)
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Ronaldo, The New Emperor
It is the news in Portugal, the footballer Ronaldo has won a golden football
and the country rejoices, after Eusebio died a new emperor is needed,
a hero people can look up to, one who can continue the people’s culture....
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Haiku
April and dull days
My love has gone missing
A field of bluebells
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Trees on top of the hill
had been chopped down
except for one,
a big old oak.
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rural ceremonial

open casket
his face was covered in a silk cloth
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