Fjordscene Poetry

I am a gypsy woman from a foreign land,in brown enigmatic hands do I hold my cards.Days follow days, similar and multi-coloured.Defiant I look into people’s faces:what do they know of the burning cards?What do they know of the living […]

Pale-hearted night, you listen…No, it is not true, your half blood is mighty enough.When it swells in your veinsand stacks, the world is yours. Pale-hearted night, when your blood is up, advanced and attacking,then your veins are like an empty […]

I am no other than an endless will,an endless will, but for what, for what?All is dark around me,I can’t lift even a straw.My will wants only one thing, but this one thing I don’t know what is.When my will […]

Caught, caught… I will break my chains.With pained lips I walk through my life.Precipices, why do I ask for you, you deserve no names.Bronze attaches to bronze and becomes human,and humans wander with iron in their hearts.But does the bronze […]

The stars are immovable –we all know that –but I will seek happiness on all the blue wavesand under all the grey stones.If happiness never comes? Then what is life?A tiny waterlily withers away in the sand.And if its knowing […]

Be quiet, my child, there is nothing,and all is as you see: the forest, the smoke and the parallel rails.A place far away in a distant landthere is a far bluer sky and a wall of rosesor a palm tree […]

Tightly my heart is hidden in a narrow ravine,far away my heart is locatedon a distant island.White birds fly to and frowith the message that my heart lives.I know how it livesof coal and sandon sharp stones. I lay all day […]

A moment’s whimstole my futurebuilt on utter chance and accidents. Much more beautiful I shall build itas I thought it from the beginning.I shall build it on the firm groundwhich is called my will.I shall rise it on the tall columnswhich […]

Every night the princess let herself be caressed.But the one who caresses merely satisfy his own hungerand her desire was a shy flower, a puzzled fairytale in the midst of reality.New caresses filled her heart with bitter-sweetnessand her body with […]

Eros, you, the cruelest among gods,why did you lead me to the dark land?When girls grow upthey’re shut out from the lightand thrown into dark rooms.Did my soul not soar like a happy starbefore it was drawn into your red […]

My circle is narrow and the ring of my thoughtsis closed around my finger.Something warm lies at the bottom of all the unknown surrounding me,like the faint smell in the chalice of the waterlilies.Thousands of apples hang in my father’s […]

Don’t go too near to your dreams:they are smoke and easily scatter in the wind –they are dangerous and often last. Have you stared deep into the eyes of your dreams:they are sick and understand nothing at all –they only live […]

Now it is autumn and the golden birdsall fly home over deep blue waters;on the beach I sit and starein the midst of the trembling glareand the hour of parting sighs through the branches.Great is the parting, separation near,but reunion […]

When the black clouds moved across the skya mother sat awake by her sleeping child.And the voice of an angel in the stillness of the nightsang the law of all worlds. And the young mother heard as an echodeep inside […]

Three maidens went hand in hand across an open plain.They met a rider covered with a cloak.The first maiden stretched out her arms: love, come!The second maiden fell on her knees: spare me, death!The third maiden turned to the right:the […]

For my brief songs,the merrily moaning, the evening red,Spring gave me the egg of a waterfowl. I asked my beloved to paint my portrait on its thick shell.He painted a young onion in brown topsoil –and on the other side a […]

I bring you a sole flower-heavy branchfrom the vast forest of spring.You say nothing and starewith your deep, sick eyesat the light reflections in the glass.You say nothing and smile,for this spring moves by, past your heart.We have nothing more […]

I am beautiful for I grew in the garden of my beloved.I stood in Spring showers and drank desire,I stood in the sun and drank glow –now I stand open and wait.

Simple is the summer in the mountains:the meadow blossoms,the old farm smilesand the brook’s dim babble speaks of found happiness.

What do you know? What do you know?It is difficult to say.I feel happiness in my hand, happiness in itself,I have luck, the great luck, in my fingers. Oh wonderful luck!I’m counted among those who believe in their own star:to […]