Fjordscene Poetry

I am alone between the trees by the lake,I live in friendship with the old conifers of the beachand in secret understanding with all young rowans.Alone do I lay and wait,nobody have I seen walk past.Large flowers watch me from […]

Happiness has no songs, happiness has no thoughts, happiness has nothing.Punch your happiness so it bursts, for happiness is evil.Happiness comes quietly with morning-winds in sleeping greenery,happiness slides away in light cloud-images over deep blue ravines,happiness is the field which […]

Oh, how lovely Hell is!In Hell nobody speaks of death.The walls of Hell rest in the Earth’s coreand are decorated with smoldering flowers…In Hell nobody speaks empty words…In Hell nobody has drunk and nobody sleptand nobody rests and nobody stays still.In […]

I, my own prisoner, say:life is not springtime clad in light green velvetor a caress you rarely receive,life is not a decision about walkingor two white arms holding you back.Life is the narrow ring keeping us captive,the invisible circle we […]

When it rains and the sea is grey I become ill…I laugh with the sun, blow with the wind and get turned on with the sea:I only love the sea in uproar.I live in a cave with many bats,but I am […]

Finally the lazy arose –he put his hands in every flower vase,he felt under every leaf,he sought the black worm in order to kill it.While he slept in the shape of a grass strawthe black worm ate his head.Three women […]

Life looks most like death, her sister.Death is no different,you can caress her and hold her hand and stroke her hair,she will hand you a flower and smile.You can hide your face at her bosomand hear her say: it’s time […]

The king forbade the word “sorrow” at court,“Unhappiness”, “love”, “happiness”, which all hurt,but “she” and “her” were still left.His queen caressed him like a child,in the twilight hours he lay by her breastwith eyes wide open with pain.He listened with anxiety […]

What is beauty? Ask all the souls in the world –beauty is everything superfluous, every spark, every swelling and great poverty;beauty is to be true to the summer and naked by the autumn’s side;beauty is the parrot’s feathercoat or the […]

Happiness is not what we dream of,happiness is not the night we remember,happiness is not contained in the song of our longing. Happiness is something we never wanted,happiness is something we hardly understand,happiness is the cross that’s raised for everybody.

The first sister loved the sweet strawberries,the second sister loved the red roses,the third sister loved the wreaths of the dead. The first sister married:it is said that she’s happy. The second sister loved with all her soul,it is said […]

You must leave your old path,that path is dirty:men go about with desirous looks thereand you hear the word “happiness” from all lipsand further ahead on the path lies a woman’s bodyand the vultures tear it apart.You have found your […]

The strange tree stands with colourful fruits,the strange tree stands with purple pollenon a sunny slope and whispers quietly:come, come, you golden daughter, you who wander in the autumn, you who listen in the forest,I will tell you wherefrom happiness […]

She sang in the darkness of dusk at the dewy wet fence:In the summer three rose bushes grew at three graves. In the first grave a man lies –he sleeps heavily. In the second a woman with sorrowful features lies […]

Fate said: white you must live or red you shall die!But my heart decided: red shall I live.Now I live in the country where all is yours,death never enters this realm.All day I sit with my arms resting on the […]

My soul was a light blue suit of the sky’s colour;I left it on a cliff near the seaand came to you naked and looked like a woman.And as a woman I sat at your tableand drank a cup of […]

My soul cannot tell or know of any truth,my soul can only cry and wring its hands;my soul cannot remember and defend,my soul cannot consider and confirm.When I was a child I saw the ocean: it was blue,in my youth […]

Sister, fair one, don’t go into the mountains:they deceived me,they had nothing to offer my longing.As a souvenir I broke a branch off the firwhich shaded the road, as lush as a spring bush,and I sought back to the ocean […]

And the queen asked her secret adviser:Who is the evil woman my consort loves?– He loves all the women who light his blood on fire –But which one shall I fight the most?– Your own black mind you shall fight […]

A bird was caught in a golden cagein a white castle by the deep blue sea.Soulful roses promised desire and happiness.And the bird sang of a small town in the high mountains,where the sun is king and the silence queenand […]