Fjordscene Poetry

A kind light from pale blue eyesenshrined in lines that smiledecades of smiles all at once – That pale blue light falls on your face,spills down your open arms,and traces beauty into every muscle – It warms and guides my […]

Will you love each person I becomeas I travel the course of a lifetime? Will your smile remainthe door to my home? Will you hold my hand through the nightto earn my private smile? Will you remember who I amthrough […]

Oh, I’ve learned a lesson or ten.Never what I was intended to learn. I was meant to behave,I was meant to conform,I was meant to workand grow used to the norm. I turned out differently. For years I thought I […]

confined inside for a year or sothe thoughts allowed to flowfreelyuntil they pervade my roomand i see what is there,i see me i see what i always wanted to be confined inside for a year or soi slowly untangle the […]

A world within the span of your armsand I the sole inhabitant –a future in that smile in yuour eyes,warmth seeping through my thoughts,dissolving fears and doubts –a world within your armsthat patch me back togetherwhen the world takes its […]

Day dawning needlesslybefore I’m ready –I’d rather keep the darkto wrap around us both – Light leaps across your facewhile you are dreaming –exposing secrets darknesshelped you hide – The morning magic stirsyour restless eyelids –soon you’ll be here, then […]

You are a poem I have written in my head for decades now – and my fingers have longed to trace its words out on your face –

I have itand I have it notthe will to live,to laugh and love –it comes and goes,it ebbs and flows,but how to giveand how to trust? I think I canand think it not,I would believebut that is hard –and life […]

The yellow light of thunder –the roar of the hail –the quiet of the thoughtful topsoilexposed to their fury. The death of summer.

The velvety ripple of barley and ryeas far as my eye can seeand a blueing haze of horizon bythe end of the stalky sea

I feel you still.Your silent voice remainsringing in my ears.My hands reachfor nothing.My eyes searchfor nothing.My heartless heartrefuses to forget.26 years of you.26 years of memories,thoughts and dreams.Gone.Yet I’m still here.Feeling all the love.The aimless love.The homeless love.It haunts me,like […]

It is her day todaybut then againit always is –mine never. It is her dayher night,her memoryalive. Some 30 yearshas passedher overnow. And once againI celebratequietlyin vain. Does shefeel old enoughto hideher age? Will I everget old enoughto nothide all? […]

So far away from me I feel you stillas dawn’s soft approach behind the trees –a changed direction in the gentle breezethat brings your breath to me on restless winds –the night dies slowly, leaves me in the light,my shadow […]

Yes, there are dayswhen my thoughts are a burdenand my words monotone. Yes, there are dayswhen I want to flee the known. But also dayswhen moored in another countryI only long for home.

I never know what date it isunless it is today.This date – this very date –that changed the world. Though nobody seemsto know that is the case. Today she opened her eyessaw all and changed everything. She spread her light […]

I’ve traced your featureswith my fingertipsa thousand timesunfelt –I know each line and fold,each angle, curveas were they partof myself – And yet you stand thereuntouchable and freenot knowing a thingabout me – My fingers feeling things they never felt […]

The sticky sweetness of Danishmuffles my English attemptsat feebly thinking aloud –Danish softness coats my tongueand turns all speechinto the pleasant hum of home –and the sticky, heavy dropscondensed on paperin a foreign tonguetoo serve little purposebut to remind me […]

I danced a dance as daylight dawned –I saw a well-known face – But I awoke as always on my own –you gone without a trace –

4 in the morningand my quiet nightexplodes in birdsong –the restful hoursout of people’s eyescome to an end –a light creeps ever nearerover the horizondisturbing reveries –a pair of tired eyesobserve with resignation –an aching headnot ready forthe voices of […]

I’ve swum upstream my entire lifenow I wake at 30 from the dream –with lots of loss and little wonand time no longer on my side – The battle lost perhaps it’s timeto slip downstream at last –join the mindless […]