Un enclos ailleurs

Dans le jardin dès fleurs embaument

Des gens et les rendent d’un douceur 

Et leurs esprits prennent la sagesse

Des vielles pierres les enclosent 

Calmement et tout passe bien!

Pinot min læremester

En lille hund på en stor rejse 

træskende troskyldigt og lydigt

efter sine ejere - uden 

et eneste forknyt vuf

accept af sin skæbne

med humør og nyt gåpåmod

En lille hund på en stor rejse

proppet i en minimal taske

for at kunne passe i kabinen

under sædet i flyveren

ud gennem told og videre

vente på tog - kørende afsted

En lille hund på en stor rejse

ankomst til et gammelt hus

underlige lugte - alt ændret

biler forbi hoveddørens vindue

middelaldergaders snirkler

ikke det vanlige grønsvær 

En lille hund på en stor rejse

prøver kræfter med alt

bliver lokket i vandet

hevet op på store sten

ofte ind og ligge under

forskellige caféborde

En lille hund på en stor rejse

møder fremmede hunde

snuser og gør hvis de gør

et væsen af en særlig kaliber

en åbenhed som vi alle nok

kunne lære af - tak Pinot

 

Conversation

A conversation I will not have

with my firstborn - ere I know my death

you were born of love

your father could not beat his genes

can you?

(An aside

Even I have a love for alcohol

but I stop ever so often once or twice 

a year for a month and my need is nothing

I drink socially

In our culture and in yours it is the norm

 a rather heavily love for the numbing flood)

you have three children - they see stuff

even though your wife also imbibes

she can hold it - whereas you seem to not

get help son of mine -- now -- not later

I know you have other devils

within your body spirit mind

PTSD is not something to ignore

Of love comes life and sadness 

joy created by endorphins

you cannot not try and get help

please...son of mine... I have a picture

embossed in my mind's eye

you on the changing table 5 months old

scared of a drunk person who loved you

but could not be lived with

are you heading in that direction?

Then when your firstborn had arrived 

you were so enamored by him

....

two more children and then your defenses

became tired worn out - and you are still young

....

been through a hell of a lot - 

but we all have  and we try our best - most of the time

...

Urging you from this side of the grave

it is not too late -- yet...

Get help!

Your answer is in the wind  -warm - violent 

will I ever know?

Up or down

Gut feeling needed

Decisions to make

Weights of pros and cons 

A blink or so

The stomach refuses 

To answer 

So where to turn

Upwards or the opposite 

Even keel is uneven 

But there is always 

dices of marbles 

And then you know!

to sider

Mit vindue er mit ydre vue 

hvad er der idag udenfor?

Mange træer i fuld flor

Min egen patio halvskjult

af parasollens skygge

min nabos to stole 

der aldrig bliver brugt

en skorsten som ligner 

et gammeldags togs røgrør

lortebrune plankeværker

omkring vores små verdener

en lyseblå formiddagsolhimmel

der viser - det er varmt

Mit indre følger ikke med

Hiding of cicada limerick

There once was a cicada from Maryland

Its seventeenth year arrival - quite a span

It mated, sated, and died

Its shell on the ground piled

its larvae went down the ground like beforehand

Lejlighedsdigt P

Der var en Poul fra Helsingør

han havde et tykt og langt rør

Han murede det endnu

for det kunne han sgu

70 tages med højt humør 

Smell the roses

Good news  - bad news from here and there

around the old whirling magnificent globe

willingly tittle-tattle or gossipy information

spread gazelle-like faster than ever

spurting and blurting without reflection

fare the stories of renown and fame

the believable and true well founded stuff

will give history a little chance except 

the antecedents were written by their victors

whereas an easy way to dig up the dirt

is as oil welly as can be - deep in the sand

lies the "clean" and  "perfumed" money 

  

 

May month of maybes

Mayflies last for only a few hours or days

so their lives follow the maybush' span

of being decorated with nature's garlands

of May Eve's dusk of chills and shadows

A reminder of mayhap fairies and beliefs

of netherworldly realms seeking influence

where the minions of mayweeds get picked

not for their beauty but for their healing 

so that a humble flower may bring soothing

and the nymphs may dance in the wind. 

  

The rope

Hangman's rope around my neck

( the imaginative actually)

sadness and anger becomes part

of my body's co-existence

nothing can be done physically

but psychologically I hit a block

my framework's skeleton

and its fillers react without doubt

so the shape is altered invisibly

outwardly it looks acceptable

but on the inside the cord 

has already been perfectly jerked 

  

 

Bred and more

 Galapagos Island turtles

Breed in Zurich wow

Biden’s number 100 day

Breeds more change

So turtles and presidents 

Are both being bred 

Bored cookies

 Uninspired by an April weather day

Even the scones refused to sparkle

And their taste seemed totally bland

But the recipe called for naught sugar 

it mixed itself with the blueberries 

Yawn they seemed to scream - alas

YOLO

 Acronyms and shortened names

Never liked them

Know they are needed - practical 

On occasion- I come across one

YOLO

not quitting at pension’s age

Works for some - what else is there

Or is enamored by the profession

Just keeps them eternally young

YOLO

Here is my own conundrum 

But in the end I have to agree 

That every day is precious &

Shit could hit any time

YOLO 

After dinner thoughts

 Exciting times seeing friends 

For the first time after being shot

... against Covid-19 - agreeing

That the pandemic is not the worst

That could happen if you sailed

Through the Strait of Messina

unscathed-untouched-healthy

With your friends and family

Your boat ride only to end surely

When you expired and drifted away

But this feeling of chatting freely

Without fear of dying from air particles 

Gave in to some weird thoughts

Of true freedom in body or mind

A spirit of je ne sais quoi initially 

Evolving into a joyful patter

Above all or nothing important 

Sense of true belonging though

We are all on the same journey 

But how we rock the boat is

In many ways a question of luck

Time era - genes and maybe

The nurture  which slipped 

Just a tad during this period 

Without a vaccine or hope thereof.

Joys of spring haiku

 Beauty is reborn 

Flowering mosquitoes now

Bite tenaciously 

Sofa’s corner

A sofa stood on a lawn

Used  - a little forelorn

Its pillows were torn

Free and clean the sign read

Spring was out and about

It was glorious and stout

Anything but  a phaseout

second chance homestead ?

Limp along the way

Sleeping limb felled me

I fell and broke a finger

again today the drowsiness

of  my foot alerted me

Imperative to keep score

of your body's twists and turns

give your blood vessels

the time to undo the snoring

Alas I am not young anymore 

Slægter

Slægter du slægten på eller af?

Ved du nok om din egen familie?

Er der skjulte ting i klædeskabet

er man sikker på at der ikke er halv-

helsøskende et eller andet skjult sted?

Har en eller anden bror/søster/onkel

doneret spermacetter til en sædbank?

Ligner din fætter din onkel?

Eller ligner han måske din far?

Kan genforskningen virkeligt

få mysterierne til at stoppe eller

bliver de værre - fordoblet?

Kan svulmende barme være

et træk hos alle i kvindelinien?

Vikingetommelfingre hos drenge?

Sygdomme og genetiske tendenser

er naturen stærkere end viljen?

 

Hvorfra hvorfra hvorfra?

 

Column hunting

To want a simple Greek column

For our yard or inside our house

Is a cat’s hunt for a wild mouse

Or a downhill trip doing slalom 

One would think it would be easy

With all the gadgets and things 

To buy an item  not fit for a king

But it seems difficult not breezy 

The locals stores both big and small

Have got nothing of a simple kind

Doric or Ionic sample on my mind

Not an acanthus  or a weird oddball

So I turn to the net the great beyond

Looking for my “granite” caryatid 

Too many weirdly shaped  monoliths

Could I find it mayhap at “Amazon”?

Alas, the biggest mall in the world 

Returns something semi- satisfactory 

Not really a desired item calefactory

But my search is the history purled!

Orlanda furiosa's lost way

Angry - angry - vile disease

the randomness - a sleaze

of an astrophysicist I know

the going downhill grows

he no longer can do a thing

life stinks with a bitter zing

Too many battle this combat

couldn't we the brain reformat

so that everyone would win

over this brain demise' kin

Alzheimer's or dementia alas

the numbers grow I'm aghast

So Orlanda furiosa's great quest

help her friend's with a life vest

continue to learn - never stop

to read question walk  and up

the ante of exercise - eat soundly

just live more profoundly

The info is out there cool and clear

numbers talk  even this year

one in three seniors will die

from these two diseases - a pie

with cancers breast/dick combined

train your blasted frame of mind

Today I am truly sad and mad

at the friggin' illness to be had

maybe it is Gaia's true revenge

that she is building a stone henge

to show that humans are curiosa

You are nothing, Orlanda furiosa