Thursday, September 24, 2026

The Voelva Vigga looked again at her internal mess
knowing that muddling around more than usual
would just intervene internally and hurt headily 

The highborn Sophia, her sister, was nowhere to be found
she had moved out so long ago from helping 
her younger sister - an oath she found hard to keep

Vigga had a conundrum which comically enough
she had solved herself - just from abstaining to be
or rather absolving all reasonable responsibility

She needed to walk behind the woodland ways
near her beloved brook from her bairnhood
but the mother earth had been scorched 

so trees had burnt, the lovely rivulet was raven
where there were tadpoles none to tell
stories about - just silence and sadness ruled

Vigga threaded very slightly - tugging her shawl
around her - sadness was within her self 
outwardly her biology followed the local biota 

In this terrain she could not get her bearings
and she knew it was time to leave the forrest
in which she had stayed for blue moons

Aiee, where to? where to find cooling calmness
she loved her solitude and her forrest friends
could she go to where she knew Sophia was

Could she meander in mooring habors
looking at sails and bows of wandering boats 
would she be able to adjust - ardently?

The Voelva Vigga had a convoluted conundrum
she had met her less likable self on an island
somewhere she actually loved very much

Could she shut her mouth up to hide hopelessly
her inner thoughts and learn how to howl
with the flock of fiends and friends equally

did she want to lose some of her friendly folks
for feeling proudly part of the common crowd
that was what had upset her sense of self

Alas, she needed to stay split between two worlds
as always - that made her feel part of neither
the either/or earthly delights were tempting

and could curiously become a way of life
without her self-knowledge - the hardcore
hope of being part of the earthen entity

called humanity - a humming messy meatloaf
no - she was on the sidelines - as always 
sadly realizing really she was the odd outsider

Tugging at her sea-colored  shawl a rough relic
from a faraway coastal area where sheep meander
along the wild windswept stones of gray granite

Vigga the Voelva started to walk again along 
the now seemly barren brook with only tufts
sticking from the rough dirt on the brink 

her alter ego Sophia had always tempered 
her measly mood-swings;  this time only
it was up the the wandering Voelva herself 
 




Monday, August 31, 2026

La décision

Qui peut savoir 
un coeur plein de l'âge
c'est un manoir
avec des portes sages??

Qui peut rêver
d'une fantôme d'enfance
dans la maison
au fond de conscience?

Qui peut choisir
des obligations familiales
et son coeur vif
cerebrale et amygdale

Qui ordonne d'arrêter
de penser à l'autrui aimé
en se sauver d'une vie 
en liberté sans être drainé

Mais il faut trouver
la solution pour une fois
entre les sentiments
fort et l'interne voix


  



Sunday, August 30, 2026

75 og 59 år

Et venskab gennem afstand
er ikke at rynke på næsen af
og slet ikke i så lang tid

Vore forskellige livsbaner
rendte afsted og hun også
selvom hendes blev stationær

Ikke i ånden - kun i det reelle
Jeg har fulgt hendes væren
og beundret hende vildt

kreativitet kan ikke sættes i bås
hendes er både praktisk
søgende - spørgende - uselvisk

hun er grobunden hvorpå alt
og  alle kommer i flor
og se bare nu også i en have

I 75 år har hendes liv formet sig
ikke helt som hun har ønsket
men hun har kæmpet for sine

ideer, tanker, familie og tro
en indstilling jeg beundrer
Aase du er en superkvinde













Monday, July 06, 2026

Knees need kneeing

I tripped on a trip
far away from home
ladies were lamenting
about knees needing
replacement

I tripped on a trip
walking walloping
now hurting one knee
just hobbling along
not quite there

I tripped on a trip
wondering how just
I could do this
so frightfully
inelegantly

I tripped on a trip
will probably do
it again some day
klutzy as I am
rekneeing it 




Saturday, April 25, 2026

Muddled thoughts

Is it possible to abhor all things human
to detest myself included

of course - that would be a teen’s privilege 
but come now also a granny’s ditto

Not sure where this whole thing is going
where I shall finally end up

Yes, dead, surely,  but in the meantime
trying vigorously not to succumb 

to morose thoughts and being too mean
just because I for once know in my bones

what life shall bring and I truly do not
want to give up paradise yet this has

So put on a happy face as the song goes
and work out beneath the endless fears

and hide the tears of anger and mischief
and that’s where the muddleness comes in.