reflux -deflux

Voelva Vigga had to reflect once more
why she really wanted to go away
she had nothing per se against
the woodsy land where she was
but her soul searched for something
else of elected or elated relevance
her needs were not met and for years
she tolerated that her soul lived
its years soullessly and sanely
but now she just wanted to fly
insanely intimately with nature
of a different kind - naturally following
the ups and downs of night and day
When chemically you have an action
she deducted that this reaction would
indeed indicate ceremoniously as all
synthetical compounds and implode
or alchemically explode one way or another
whether you added base or acid.
It was how she felt one morning
and she knew she had to walk wide
and mull meanderingly over this
maddening crazy conundrum
which comes sooner or later
to everyone in life, a crossroad.

Rainy days bring on more weight

When it rains
it pours ( as they say)
but it purrs
in a different way
the intake of
calories surely stay
and the kilos
grow at dismay!

oaths and needs

Sworn oaths of fidelity and fealty
Words so dear and deep
Only work when they are meant
Or forget and weep!
Public service of highest and hearty
Means nothing and needs
To be severed when the servants
Make of the people bleed.

A retirement party

Middle school returns
Somebody retiring
Meeting ghosts
From  twenty years hence
Wow - where did it go?
Have you truly
Lived another lifetime?
My kids and their teachers
And somebody else’s too
Wow - where did it fly?
Seeing the band director
Par excellence And
some of the co-educators
À seventh grade dictator
A science and social one
Wow - where did it hop?

May weather haiku

A humidity
wave of drops unbearable
but good for the bugs

In awe

Did I really rear three kids
breastfed them and clothed them
without losing my mind
or was it lost when the hormones
took over my body
instead of my brain?
Now with daughter's son
I see the whole pattern repeat itsself
just like it has done for
mammals since the evolution began
It does not make it any better
or worse - just a thought
of the animal in us all
Fucking nature -
feeling less wild nowaways
and in stupendous wonder
of life itself - wow

I am trying and that’s what counts?!?

Clutzy day of a special kind
Unique accidents - all fumbling
Ending up laughing hysterically
Just because of my own idiocy
In the kitchen while trying to cook
A gourmet meal for a friend
Turning another corner on
The Richter scale
Hoping that the cook lives
Through this crazy calamity
Realizing that there might be something
About biorhythms and how
One can sometimes be a danger
Without really wanting to.

Ellicott City - again

olde Ellicott City
with stories to tell
from a mill town to
a touristy everyday hangout
you are funky - has spunk
cause your young-at-heart
is growing and strong

but an aneurism
suddenly hits
out of the blue
and a blood clot
your body's defense
just floats and bloats
and almost down
on your knees

the second time within
twenty-four months
how many more
can you take?
how much more
of nature's wrath
is enough for the soul?
Ellicott City of
youth for the ages/aging
keep fighting -
I need you for
my sanity and your own

Twice within 24 months a major flooding
in Ellicott City is a warning that 
nature has gone haywire

A waiting

Sitting in the parking lot
Waiting
For
The
Bottles
Of
Beer
They
Arrive
By
Special
Messenger
And then we drive on

Friday wish for the world

Glorious inheritance
wonderful codes
wow - not

Wondrous heredity
fabulous nucleic acid
wow - not

You - who do have
good genes -
be  happy

You who do not
inherit healthy DNA/RNA
happy Friday
anyway


Fleur-de-Lys mulling over the inherited genes

The pink Rose

The pink rose in my planter
is a stunningly item of nature
she smells like an old time bud

The pink rose in my courtyard
is a thing of rare beauty
against the brown fence

The pink rose lasts only a sec
she is the contrast of nature
versus man - she wins!

Retour à mon âme

Dans le monde les gens
qui comprennent tous
les hommes
qui sont des chevaliers
les femmes
qui donnent de leurs mieux
restent l'espoir
pour l'éternité.
Désormais les pires
essaient de ruiner
tout pour tout le monde
ceux-ci réussissent
des fois avec une guerre
ou leurs pouvoirs désastreux.
Entre-temps des événements
petits et journaliers
sont sellés avec
des bon hommes
et des bonnes femmes
et alors je suis presque là
le Languedoc médiéval.

People - wake up

equanimity in front of
equality and legality
of the law of the land
and changing it
is what a Supreme court
should do everywhere
in a democracy -
alas in the US
there is now no equal rights
for a living person
chipping away the values
and ethical rectitude
fearful of the political balance
it is tipping towards
money and power
so the citizenship must become
more vigilant of its prerogative
otherwise the realm of darkness
might just take over
and there shall be no citizens
who are protected by the laws
only the fawning few
nobody is above the law
but the law can be tampered with
if the people are not punctilious

(On seeing RBG and then reading about 
another decision by the Supreme Court this morning)

A different Monday

A Monday in May
a quiet array
of sunshine and decay

A Monday in May
a wild foray
into an alleyway

A Monday in May
a  crazy melee
of desire and display

A Monday in May
a woman portray"d
of colors and souffle.

haunted daily

This is hard to keep up
This idea of a poem a day
This is more than hard
To keep daily calories count
This is hard to keep on
Doing the daily tasks
Thus - whatever you think
Is hard to keep up or on—-
A fallacy of your own
Laziness- my mother’s voice

Maybe or maybe not?

Message me a missive
in a massage

Message me a maudling
in a memo

Manifest your manipulation
in a mail

Must I then maneuvre
minutely

Mayhap then will we
move mutually

or

Mixed messages confound
the matter?

Guns money guns

guns - money
Money - guns
Having fun???

No thoughts
No prayers
Fuck the gun

Good man
Stops bad guy
With a gun

Fuck faulty
Logic
Get a gun
 
More money
To the lobby
Gun the guns

Un djinn me parle

Mon âme reste inquiet
Sans mon beau village
Chaque presque  six mois
un pèlerinage
M’est nécessaire
Pour mon sens sans spleen -
Autrement je tombe
Dans un trou - un djinn
Me perturbe et dit
Retourne vivement
Cazouls va t’hanter
Tout simplement
Sans que tu le sache
Tu aies des cauchemars -
Je vais t’envoyer
A ton purgatoire
De ne retrouver
Ton petit éden -
Stop - je lui dis - fini
J’arrive en trentaine

LOL

Laughing out Loudly or Aloud
is good for the endorphins
so that's why I spend so much
time in the so-called cyber orbit
Alas it is taking its toll
I am no longer in the local sphere
just a tad away from anywhere
no connection - just a stroll
a different universe
a sad but true traverse
so let me see if I can bring laughter
or at least just a quick smile
yes you'll not see my wrinkly face
in the mirror of time bequile(d).

Nightless night

Night against knight
Not enough exercise
Sleepless Pills
Which do not work
Nightless night
Incredible tiring
So today’s dawn
Sees a new need
Walking walking
Without which
The nightmare
Will not return
To sleep depriving
Knight after night

A color of worn days

My orange sweater  - a reminiscence
of the days of good and fancy clothes

I have worn it many times - today too
and its peachiness is still going strong

do I toss this tangerine remnant of a past
I cannot - for the same reason

there are my rainbow dresses that tell stories
only for me I know but still

A woman's cor(r)al wardrobe is her life
it talks of fads and crazy nights

So maybe this will be my burial's bittersweet
cloth and burnt with me - titian - apricot

Non- existing

Nothingness is becoming
an age of a certain number
when I hit that one
I shall become a nullity
Nothing is anything
and everything
and that in itself
counts for not a thing!

A brother’s limerick

There once was a guy named Torsten
With his brush he liked to touch them
The ladies galore
They asked for more
He painted with oil and floored them

Genetically humane

Move over generation
upon generation
upon genera...

The order of things
is the thread of life
just like any gene
it is born it lives it dies
nothing else

It is the waves that count
it is the ways that amount
it is how we are bound
together so weirdly
so sincerely
it is a chain reaction
fusing the fission
and the genes' mission

So here is the heir
of two families
nucleic acids
bound in a chemical
mitochondrial bind
in a slight different
non or coding DNA

Strangely enough
it is what we are all  part of
- humanity

Haiku on haiku

You write a poem
in the style of a haiku
a branch of stray words

The czar of Kremlin

A man named Putin the czar of Kremlin
is  a  highfalutin devious gremlin
His only motto: Mother Rodina
will play bravado : screw the world prima .

A non-poem

Waiting for disasters to happen
along with floods and hurricanes
for political reasons of onslaught
on a frail democratic idea
that one man has one vote
and that somehow you cannot buy it!
Here in the US we will enventually
realize that the electoral college
is a nullity that should be abolished
Here one will also admit
that democracy as an idea is lost
because people did not speak up
were gun(g) ho on money
enamored by the glitz and glam
of a bully and a seducer of
self-made (all American) ideas.
Alas -  nullity and money
reigns supreme - only with one hope
that the world will change
that democracy still has one chance
that it is only four/eight years
so we again can believe
ideal of man's sacrifice for liberty
and justice for all - not
for seducers and perpetrators
of  the political parties
of the populace per se
but  - for human dignity of
the electorate and the rest of us.

Thorin Leo

Thorin et navn fra elletiden
saa djærv en dværg elskes du
langtfra oprindelsen og tæt
på dit ophav over vandene

Thorin dit lys skal lyses
fra dit inderste indre
og uden at du ved det
er vikingeblod i dine årer

Dit andet navn er Leo
- en løventand - en blomst
så almindelig som ukrudt
men det forgår ikke

I maj spredes løvens blad:
tyrens mælkebøttebarn
så stædig - en resiliens
du nok skal få brug for

Thorin Leo dit kald
er ved vuggen en skjald
af norrøn nysgerrighed
fyld med indre kabaret

Og megen humor måtte
også blive dig forundt
en skæbne er skrevet
idag - et nysgerrigt ark.

Dyr og mennesker

Et dyrisk menneske
Kan ikke leve med omverdenen
Uden at skulle jage eller være vildtet
Som overgiver sig til sin skæbne
hvorimod
Et menneskeligt dyr
Kan bo i sin hule eller i sin rede
Og som kæmper for
At overleve i harmoni med
Sin Egenartethed.

A new necklace

Around a woman’s neck
Hangs a bauble -a speck
Of meaning or decoration
A tad of declaration
A silver vulva is mine
You sister - what’s thine?

A wrinkle of timeless idiocy

Wrinkling of thinking
is like a uplink of a blink
this is not even a wink
since you are stinting
whatever comes in cynk
and to surely interlink
the random clinking
alit, you double think
the political stink
this calamity shrinking
is not adverse to a kink
of a needed shrink
burying me in drinking

With an apology to Madeline L'Engle
for lending the almost title

des roses - des lilas d'un jardin

Je me rapelle entendre
La Rose et  Le Lilas
sur une maitresse
qui delaisse un amant.
Une autre chanson
sur les lilas d'un amour
qui est déjà passé
et l'amant ne revient.

C'est le mois de mai
un temps de folie
et tout un coup
je suis contente
d'être une femme
d'un certain âge
- sans des ennuis
visibles - extérieurs

Les vielles blessures
viennent des fois
comme des cauchemars
intérieurs et vieux
la rose et les lilas blancs
ou les fleurs bleues
leur morts calment
mes ancients nuits.

Alors viendra le futur
qui me restera avec
des autres souvenirs
doux et agréables
rempli des roses
sanglantes d' harlequins
ou des lilas violets
d'un jardin proche.

Hatred

You are different from me
therefore I hate you
You are a different sex
therefore I hate you
You have a different color
therefore I hate you
You have too much
therefore I hate you
you are too beautiful/handsome
therefore I hate you
I have too little sex
therefore I hate you
I have too little money
therefore I hate you
I have a prevalent color
therefore
I am entitled to hate you
You have a different religion
therefore I hate you
You are different from me
therefore I hate you

( Hans Christian Andersen's
Ugly Duckling rewritten
for adults)

May 1st - a mayfly

A Mayfly flew by the ponder pond
where Vigga the Voeva was meandering
slowly slovenly almost like a ephemera
a little larvae a nonsensical nymph
to evolve eventually into a day fly
only to mate meteorically in air
and the well-worn Voelva stubbed
her toes on a tilted stone at the water's edge
she murmured mildly ouch
continuing her daily dabble in nature
thinking that she as a shelagh
was also a mayfly having mated but once.
Granted she had been molested
but that did not consciously count
as anything but a rape on her soul
scarred with a memory forever
reminding her of the emasculated elf
who at least had atoned for his devious deed
and had since become her friend.
How strange a life can be -
she never again met her lovely lover
of that summer as a beauty and a butterfly
The mayfly would not really turn into one
In an imaginary imago of her wondrous world
it could surely and certainly occur
Was there almost anything more for  her
to experience extensively at the age of almost
seventy - well when she thought of her sister
Sophia  the highborn and  wise woman
that she lived her luck of life
in a cavernous vacuum where she saw
everything as in patterns and sewing
her trundling threads  slowly moving
so that she - Sophia could give advice
like Athena in Athens a long time ago.

The Mayfly meandered through the air
and Vigga the Voelva  wanted to follow it.
She wanted to dance around the maypole
It was a beautiful Beltane today because
she was going to hold the Elf -her friend-
accountable for his promise around
Samhain the day of the harvest feast
that something would happen
the year she turned sovereignly seventy
that she would embark on her trip towards
the unknown and yet so well-known
other place in Gaelic highlands where
she had spent one stupendous summer
ad mayhap she would find Shmuel
the trader of hearts and joy again
or she would find a new meaning
to her dreary wintry well-worn body?
Was that too much to ask of fate
on a new Mayday as a Mayfly?

Words words words I am not sick of them

Words words words words words words words words
Can can can can can can can can can can can can
Not not not not not not not not not not not not not
Kill kill kill kill kill kill kill kill kill kill kill kill kill
But but but
They they they they they they they they they they they
Express express express what what what what
We
Think and feel and what we do not think and feel
But if we do not have the freedom to express our selves
Then then
Our world / words will be limited limite limit limi lim li l ..

So so so

At a ball
at a dinner
off to bed


so high that I need to booze
so low that I need to schmooze
so mediocre that I need to snooze

so
so
s(n)o(re)

Lost a book memory

Ever tried to read a book
and you know you have been in it before?
no clue of what it's about -
except you have a vague feeling
of deja vu  for the umpteen time encore
My memory is a snook!

month of April haiku

Last days of April
Wild ride and a slower one
Tempo andante

Couldn’t taste it

From the corner waiting
For a table at an Italian diner
Nothing is a reminder
Of sweet Roman eves
Of Vespas whisking by
Of the trassevere area
Where I once stayed
Only wanting to savor
A gustatory memory
Comparing an old street
In an urban Roman spot
With the new suburbs
In a strip mall in the U. S.
Does not come across
Even though the food
Was actually quite tasty!

Because I said so

This is a poem
Because I say so
Schopenhauer’s
Will to see the reality
Is based on his
Empirical ideas
The colors in music
Remain an illusion
Only the metaphysics
Of this illusory game
Called human will
Is to be questioned.
Is this still a stanza?

Lopper i maven?

Har vi lopper i maven
eller er det fuglefjer -
forventningsglaede?
Er stress og sygdom
for en gangs skyld
ikke en undskyldning?
Er det bare det
at se fremtiden an
i et roedmende lys?
Skal jeg give svar
paa noget som jeg
end ikke aner endnu?
Er det at et menneske
snart skal foedes
ikke nok for eftertiden?
Er hver eneste draabe
enkelte hop eller drop
ikke et mikrokosmos?

Encore le trou

Comme dans une boite
enchainée et coite
rien m’attire ici
je suis crucifie
il faut me reveiller
et vraiment resserrer
mon esprit et mon cul
ne sont des pustules

Every day stress

Boiling underneath
quietly stressed
sleep deprived
what else is new
in a woman's state

Low key anger
seeking relief
still sleep short
what else is there
of a woman's fate

It is the everyday
that wears you down
it is the every way
that tears you up
on  a woman's plate 

French Baguette

A longish lament
Or a lopsided loaf
Of soulful sadness
having devoured
The death poet’s
Daunting  declaration
Of freedom from
Tyrannical toads
Following Neruda’s
Painting bread
As pecuniary words
Knowing kneading
Is necessary to
Form a fancy
French baguette
But to bake it
Is a caustic case
Requiring respect
For winding words
Which one can
Eat with pleasure
Or swallow swiftly
It being Gallic
Goes without saying
Theatrical tales
Of breads and words

redacted reality

Idealistic world views
Remain illusional
Realistic world regards
Allude to starkness
Dark world soothsaying
Hails tyrant idiocy
With no respect for
Humility and humanity.
Suppression of poets
Thinkers and the press
Undoes the earthly visions
when nothing but anger
Can allude to the coming
Revolutionary realm.

W- tale

my uncle took
my virginity

13 years old
I was sold

I would not
but I had to

I was tatooed
and sent

away to serve
old - young

my baby died
in my womb

I still served
young and old

in a brothel
somewhere

To tolerate
what happened

is is a wonder
that I did drugs?

By the time
I was 27 -

I had served
more 10000 men

what else
Is there to say?

Learning

Grasping new stuff
is a full cause
never give up
or take a pause
if you just stop
or take a breath
it 's a junk shop
a sudden death!

Names

A Florence or a Charles
Projecting your hopes
For a future of a child

Waves up and down
With the seasons’ change

By calling somebody
Napoleon or Eurydice
You can doom or promote

It depends on the throne
Or the walk from Hades

What follows who
Wherefore and pride
First of the last

A line dies out slowly
Another combi begins

virtual unvirtuality

My virtual vagina would very
Much melt and mull over
a melting manhood’s spire
Only the odds are against
such a sucking saber -
Since it is an imaginary
Of a lavishly lusty labia
And dreams does not do it!

Torsten Tordenskjold

En Tordenskjold blev født idag i Gentofte
For firsindstyve år siden  den 17 April
En måned før fejring af Nordlandets frihed
Han satte sejl til sit skib
Drog nordpå og søndenom
Igen nordenome i et par år
Og fandt med viv og sønner
Et liv til fulde arbejde og frivillighed
Endnu en fulriggers drejning
Mod de Frankiske elverkald
Her har herre Torsten så
PåTaget en fritids kappe og drysset
Malerklatter og rotarigets ansvar
På sin gavmilde ryg alt imens
Hans dejlige Ia forsvandt over havet
Og i flere bede i det franske land
Musikforeningen styres roligt
Og hvad de expatrioterne kræver
Truppen der danses folkelige kæder
Plus ikke at forglemme vinsmagning
Et gammelt hverv som turist guide
Og fester og almindelige middage
En Tordenskjolds soldat som nyder
Opgaver og næsten ikke siger nej
Fordi under frihedsbrevets svanesang
Er det en glæde at gøre ting for andre
Og egentlig ikke tænke meget på
Sit eget jeg og i fritidens oldnorske
Faste Principper  - de svinger med -
sådan er min Torsten Tordenskjold

Godot - in memoriam

on the bench
at the bench
in the bench
up the bench
-
seriously sad
sadly serious
under the bench
near the tree
-
godot -
or not godot-
go get to not got

-

never got the dot



waiting
for students to drop-in
will sometimes
drive tutors at center
to mischief

Shake

A handshake vapidly shake
Another’s firm and fast -
Could it be timidity
Anxiety or just arthritis
While its opponent squirms
Lack of confidence reigns
Alas one should be careful
Judging the washy hello
Embracing empathy
And go light on turn-offs.

La femme fatale??

Mon destin est conditionné
par les hommes plus agés
les pépés intelligents
des mâles flamboyants
des hommes de pouvoir
des héros de boudoir
sans que je puisse bien
les éviter - les Européens.

Mes phantasmes irréalisables
totalement incroyables
jamais j'ai eu des rêves
d'être vraiment la fille d'Ève
embrassant les plus jeunes
comme un vampire qui dejeune
sur le sang des petits andouilles.

Ma figure cache une gargouille
qui observe toute sa vie passée
en haussant les épaules blasées
en réalisant completement
on n'évite son sort sûrement.

un clin d’œil

Un jour de plus
M’applaudit
Je me sens nue
Sans ton clic!

Fast weight gain - take it off n o w

A holiday of three weeks
did me in - 6 pounds
holy cow - did I eat or
did I drink that much?

I am alas no gym geek
do not stomp the ground
have to gulp water for
otherwise no damn luck.

in dropping the meats
to be again sound
and healithy expound
I am me  - a hen - cluck!

Dragons in Melbourne musings

Dragons and lions
scurrying on the roofs

rain and good fortune
powers of protection

far and few between
gargoyles or gryphons

old fashioned street art
before Hosier Lane

humanist desire
for ornamentation

waiting period

Waiting at door number two
For a ride to the house
Just been traveling
Half the world around
Traffic horrendously awful
So the chauffeur is late
Our travails are almost over
Parallel to the other ride
We waited for across
The continent and ocean
We got there and get here

Flower haiku

Melbourne’s family
Remains forever in heart
Dried flowers bloom

en fod og dens ejer

Min fod er svulden
Det dunker -
Selvom den har været
Helt i vejret
Er det en fornemmelse
Noget skidt
Min fod er ikke min

A sorta haiku

A fall morn on a spring day
Significantly otherwise
In an upside down world

Remembering outside the womb

The bubbles in my beaker
Bow to all my awesome memories
Outside my mum’s worldly womb
They float up and feel lighter
My aging body’s agency
Tells me that it is totally acceptable
To mull over my happenings
And rejoice that I can remember.

an epiphany

Each area on the globe
Has a slightly different
Sun timbre and glow

Due to where on Earth
You are - the solar light
Reflects the degree

The surroundings areas
The plants the birds
The buildings the shades

Casting the memories
The sensations you
Once encountered (t)here

Pensée nocturne

Le judgement professionnel
Sera tres difficile de le rendre
Concernant un individu
Que j’aime bien ou plus fort
Et mon compte rendu sera
Trop sévèrement impromptu
Sans que j’aie m’en rendu
Alors l’idee m’est venu
De vivre dans le moment
Seul et depuis aujourd’hui !

clever comments

A different kind of evening
Totally socially feministic
Only with a true engineer
Did not bother the women
Present tonight intimately
Within the kindred group
Sisterhood severely sought
Without qualms or quips
Just à joint jocular feeling
And the wine cementing
The well-being wishing
The point of no true return.

Vikings in Victoria

Vikings’ exhibition
Would express
Clever curiosity  from
Three  Aussie kids
Why how where
They came from?

The boisterous boys
Both had the thumb
Of the wily Vikings
Some hereditary feat
Fabulously lacking
In prior generations.

The ships the hammer
Of the thunder Thor
Living in Asgaard
All the plentiful pantheon
Simultaneously simple
People passed to new faith

Plundering and pilfering
Along everywhere in Europe
But names and laws
Still have rightful roots
From this changing time
Where Vikings travelled

So three times Norse
Show up in sunny
Victoria as Vikings
Villagers stop at nothing
young and yearning
Rambunctiously right
To know the why and who.

all in a day’s walk

Legs up on the table
After a long day’s walking
Beg to relax stretch
Your toes - like stalking
Another life - not yours
But a shadow’s talking
About what you saw
Blurry in mind’s caulking.

Night market

"Night market"
has connotations

Fleshy and fishy
flowing -floating

all kinds of people
all kinds of tastes

steamy and smelly
swelling and swooning

every Wednesday
during the summer

a foodie's dream
of buds' seduction

Melbournian secretive
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Flaeskesvaer

En dansk dame som sjaeldent
Oplever et gammeltdags koekken
Med  kartofler og flaeskesteg og sovs
Fik i gaar aftes til middag i Melbourne
en oplevelse kreeret af soennen
Svaeren var en hjertens smovs.

Spring

Springy spring
avowed
older and wiser
somehow
jump with kids
powwow
living is
just now!

In Aussie fall
endowed
older not wiser
somehow
walk with grandkids
anyhow
living is
still now!

St Kilda Pier

Water lapping gently

Along the inner pier

Waiting for dusk 

galavanting 

Maybe tonight 

The penguins reappear 

Like they do

Gallantly 

Year upon year

To watch the bird

Swimmers 

A desire of 

Modern humans

Connecting with 

Nature to

Nurture their souls 

Or at least their egos.

Currently still

Curious enough 

To wait - the chain

Unbroken- since 

Eons’ ago

An odd day

A tram ride

Out and away from everyone

On my own A l o n e

Sunny day 

Adventure starts

Melbournian travails 

Occitan heart 

Around my neck

Thinking on it.

A cappuccino 

Sadness seeing

So many memories 

aboriginal repression.

Culturally supposed 

Senior superiority 

On to other views

An historic walk 

Through film

From Lumière -

Saw t-shirt 

Now is the happiest 

Time

On the bank of 

The Yarra river

On the brink of

What?

A sensational 

Sensual stop

In another time

Alas these sex

Encounters

Mostly are

Created in

A carefree 

Youthful 

Yonder period 

When I had them

Both.  

Dreamening

So very apt

Here in Aussie 

Hideout within

Has been a hit 

Saying little 

Thinking so 

Much more

Observing 

A compulsive 

Obsession 

Reading the signs

Of the bodies

Before the term

Became the norm.

Three fishermen 

Trying to catch

Mullets? Mudsuckers?

For a river not 

A whole lot of

Boats bobbing 

River cruise line 

Announces

The upcoming tour.

Behind me on

The busy foot path

Humans walk

No longer 

In their Sunday best

But basically 

Just whatever 

Strike their whims -

Purse, trip, or 

Practicality.

Have since turned

Away from the sun 

Still leaning against 

The tall palm

In the shade

Of its trunk.

Across the water

On Fed Square

Music of much

Variety is watered

Down by the distance.

Lanky bodies 

Determined dearly

To haul nothing

Or bulky backpacks

An aim or without 

Just gobbling up

A great day’s

Complying wonder.

On to a new tram

Having been ‘home’

A cups dry tea

A few choco bites

Listening to 

Couple’s conversation 

Newly aquatinted 

First date??

On to my son’s

To meet family.

In an upside down

Country up and down
Kids upside down
Weathervanes up
flags on poles down
swans black not white
sun in north at noon
but love is not.

ukendte lyde

Lyde i et fremmed sted
Knirk knark knurk
Er som en ukendt agurk
På en mark tæt herved
Hvor lydene gror tæt
Fordi hovedet er træt.
En tilvænningsproces
Som endsige ikke nås
Fordi tiden er kompleks
Og dens længde forsmås.

Sangiovese 2012 or Isabel's blood

Drinking a Sangiovese
Given to me by
My sis’ boyfriend of
So long ago
That he would be
The second oldest
Living soul her excepted
Knowing me.
We meet because we can
Here in Australia
Or elsewhere
His wife’s roses
Stand tall and straight
A force  - a Scot
Gave me those red  -
Murder or wishful
Thinking or just
Friendship reigns
That is the Aussie
A thunderbolt
of love or hatred.
For me it is Venus
an ancient feeling
only to be found
whenever we meet
but for her I represent
the love that never
went away that
could not be beaten
therefore the blood
filled roses of yore
and I accepted them
knowing their worth.

Drag show

Drag queen show shows
the drags in all finery rags
the beauty of the body
the skills of the makeup
the dancing queens

Drag queen show shows
the drags are impersonators
we are drags pretending
we are not going out
the dancing queens

Drag queen show shows
the drags are not playacting
same personifying souls
they do not feign
the dancing queens

Drag queen show shows
the drags vividly honest
portray to the world
that all of us dramatize
the dancing queens

A great Dane remembers

Melbourne city reminiscing
a past love from Cambridge
when walking down
an anonymous street to others
I see his face his being
there that one day with me
where 33 years washed away
our souls were once again
intertwined and connected
only to be torn away
the next night -
his death ended the fusion
but tonight he was there
and I had not forgotten. 

Bubbles bubbles

Bubbles in a cauldron
fleeting moments of truth
bubbles to protect
kids from reality
bubbles bubbles

Bubbles in suburbia
fleeing moments of reality
bubbles to shelter
kids from happenings
bubbles bubbles

Bubbles at a discussion
fading moments of truism
bubbles to recognize
kids will know - later?
bubbles bubbles

Poetens sandhed

Poetens rolle er mangfoldig:
at beskrive et menneskes liv
eller en blomst, en fornemmelse
saagar en historisk handling -
men kun med aerlighed
og kaerlighed naar digteren
indtil sandheden -
dog er virkeligheden saadan
at den kan fordrejes
og er en fodrejse i sindet
saa enhver epiker har
sit eget  epigram -
en fyndig fortolkning
som kan accepteres eller
forkastes af modtageren
budskabet er en tidsbombe.

Une vue differente

Je suis une vieille femme superflue
j'ai eu mes enfants je les ai leves
alors ma mission dans le monde
capute - finie -

Je suis une dame d'un certain age
j'ai encore quelques annees
maintenant mon but est seulement
de vivre pour moi!

Tak til vejret

Idag var vejret godt
hverken koldt eller raat
men solen varmede
mig saa ganske flot
og sig fint forbarmede
at jeg foelte mig blot
som i et kongeslot.

jetlag haiku

Jet lag playing tag
Today tomorrow and more
Melbournian nights

a syndrome reappears

Sarasota spooks encore
Yesterday in the syndrome’s sphere
Could not find anything
Back on a vacation in one room
To when the kids were young
When I was younger.

But this time the illness
Was exacerbated megaly
Every minute was
“Where is??!??
And this time it was
At home within the walls.

By nightfall laughter
Became hysterical
And I was about
To pack up and ship out
Which is what I did.
Today wasn’t better.

A tempest’s brew

Wish I could write like Shakespeare
And do the motley fool’s thing
Of making fun of the world’s kings
Or comment on politicians’ sphere
Square and hypothetical humans
Of all races and nations’ brood
Till the end of my time’s cue
The idiocy of the pride of man
All the late night shows’ hosts
Are fun feisty heinous  and wise
But their jokes relieve no demise
They show often the world’s hoax
My musings reflect frustration
With the words’ load of impact
 the utterings of idiots’ thoughts
Are what the world’s stage wrought
And only stupidity’s pride is intact.

Desperate last minute preparations

Whenever you have to plan
be it a trip a dinner or a pan
of whatever you want to do
or eat with chewing cashew
there's  last minute brouhahas
and a tad even for food comas
so if you go to down under
you well better plan asunder
the party only works just if
your man willingly in a whiff
runs out to get last minute roses
adding chocolate by osmosis.
 

Thanks to Poul for always be a 
very accommodating runner

Daffodils in memoriam

We met when daffodils
were young
and we were too
now again the yellow
is peeking out from
the green
And you are gone
and yet
I shall go where you were

To me the daffodils
are you.

Liver or not

Haruspex’ reading
Has long threads
Of ancient divination
Spirulina says
The ides of March
Julius there’s danger
I read it in the liver.
Today the Voelva
Predicts not
Having seen deeply
Inside the rotten meat
There is danger
For someone who thinks
He is emperor.

Brewing of time

Brewing ale and wine
a task as old as time
whereas brewing words
on paper or online
are but  different accords
thus the fact of mime
this undertaking of slime
a recipe for the gourd

Philosophizing on brewing
is older than the written word

Earthlings earthiness

 Revolvers resolve   nothing
Revolutions rarely do
Murder and mayhem
Sometimes supposedly
Clears the clearing
Only to be painfully pathetic
And the killing kills everything
Woeful words hurting
The individuals involved
Can only grasp gruesomely
That the warring Wanderer
Has nowhere to truly tarry
And might as well wonder
What s/he is doing doomed
Among guns of ignorant idiocy
There is little lackluster hope
That the world will ever change
Mayhap it is for the best
Man has literally learnt nothing
Will forever eventually err
The morale is for us mortals
A reality of the day : we will die

A storm is brewing

wish that I were like Stormy
who answers every insult
with an elegant/snide brew

wish to avoid vividly
the unwanted proposals
the contempt and miscues

I need to brush up feistily
on my dormant language skills
and let anyone get stewed


"On reading about "Stormy Daniels' tweets"

Thoughts on opiods

Opiods and pain
right as rain
in a biped's mind
needs or wants
ends or founts
this is hell combined.

Stressed

Currently a lot happening
the duality of the ego
a truly infamous truth
sometimes I am me
at other times myself.

Bagdad

Fabled city of Haroun al Rashid
of beauty and bonfires
Bagdad - a bild of a city
a picture in an exhibition
with musical notes of Arabian flavors

Fabulous town of renown
now decimated daringly
of  lost binding hopes
in a city of war and mayhem
yet the kids play in the eastern ruins

Saw a picture today "Bagdad" named
the sand dusted color with
plots bots and polkadots
musical notes and winding bits
a depiction of chaos in harmony

A synthetic symphony  of yore
in 1258 destroyed by the Mongols
its heyday during the Abbasids
now again undesirably bombed
its imaginary beauty remains


On seeing "Bagdad" by Mark Tobey 

everyman/woman’s everyday choice

The art  of healthy choices
Is devilishly daunting
Do I take a pill to survive
Yes of course but
With a cautious caveat
Of accepting side effects.
Maybe I should gobble
A super supplement
To prevent as a precaution
A precarious disease
In the unknown future
With no clear sequel.
Or should I be like
a Christian Scientist
Who denies definitively
That medicine natural/
synthetic is evil and
only pious prayer prevails?
What confusing conundrums
For everywoman everywhere!

Mnemosyne's failure

Mnemosyne did something unusual
this early morn at my table
she failed me totally
none of the muses stood me by
in the hands of usual mundane acts
I took a pill twice!

Mellow Yellow

Threads of silk  combined
into a scarf of renowned beauty
the emperor's aurolent sign
of displeasure of a person
translates into a command
of auric self-assasination.
Such a beauty of color
for such a terrible feat
yet the sun is also a killer
this planet could not live
without the "yellow"  giver.

Europa - a dream

Zeus the conqueror
raped violenty Europa -
King Minos judged
the dead in Hades

Grecian democracy
lasted ten years
otherwise wars
ravaged Europa

Ever since so
is it a wonder
that people dream
of peaceful Europa

Europe split again
Britain and now
Italy's democracy
scatters the chimera

Rodina - the bear cub
claps her hands
hopes for the incubus
of self-loathing of Europe

and old hatred -  fear -
the "others" - strangers
the mirage of the desert
splintered Europa

Somewhere in the world

Somewhere in the world
a concert is going on
performers getting ready
to entertain

somewhere in Europe
attendees are driving
towards the goal
it is not a match

somewhere in France
Villeneuve-lès-Béziers
two people-my ears
my mind as well

Year one

A baby's first birthday
is an important one
in other cultures
that's when you start
counting so year one
is year zero -

All the grandparents
and adopted ones
were present
that's is important
to eat your cake
at age one!

For Sammy

bump bump

Banged my head
Kitchen door knob
Bump bump
Trying to bake
A lovely chocolate
Torta caprese
Bump bump
But a head band
Plus a cooling pad.
In oven and cool
Bump bump
After that hubby
Arrived home
Sat and asked him
To take out the cake
Bump bump
To cool the oeuvre
Fell off the heat pump
Hubby “rescued”
The smashed cookie
Bump bump

Gargoylian poets

Winding windy windows

in an old medieval castle

a grotesque gargoyle

an architectural function

of human foibles and fun

drowning out the slave labor

of stone cutters' dangerous job

Words wound up will

remain eternally dangerous

an uncanny understanding

of making jest of dictators

and their egocentric quirks

drumming up a storm

for the powerful to plunge