Jan Oskar Hansen Poems

The last forenoon

It was Sunday I was sitting peacefully at my desk
when an interior storm burst knocked off me off my chair
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Middle East Future
I have not written anything today, why should I? The future
in the Middle East is clear there will be a rapprochement
between USA and Iran, naturally two countries are surprisingly
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My Phizog
Strange what one remembers?
after looking through Playboy magazine and skipping
the dreary articles written by it founder
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Mare Nostrum
On the coast of Augusta, in Cecilia this wonderful sea,
the bluest of turquoise, transparent and I saw fish play.
Blood and bloated corpses have made the sea less pretty
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War & Peace

After the war in Norway and the German army left, income
and employment they had brought such as building
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Start go, Start again
To understand the past is not natural historians of the time
writes about power and might, but little about the people.
Yet, within this confine art existed painting and poetry which
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Useless Money

I often get petitioning letters so many people trying
to find a place to live and only receive a bitter refusal
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Kathmandu
a quaint, romantic name,
had wanted to go there now it is a dream.
Nepal, this small mountain country
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Burundi
Elusive it is the dream of peace
and the Burundi the president is seeking a third term,
but the people say NO, and fight for
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Love story
Eva Braun was a Greenland seal lived in an aquarium Herr Hitler Liked animals
his dog loved him truly. Dog lovers are supposed to be kind. Love on first sight.
So perhaps there was a call for a loving word that was denied in his childhood;
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