Fjordscene Poetry

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 […]

Willful and cold my heart becamewhen I began longing for your caresses.My sisters have not yet feltthat I no longer look at them…I no longer speak to anybody…How often don’t I kissthe tiny kitten that sleeps near my breast.I’d want […]

When you saw the face of happiness you were disappointed:this sleeping woman with loose featureswas the most worshipped, the most mentioned,the least known of all goddesses,she who rules over tranquil oceans,blooming gardens, endless days of sunshine,and you decided never to […]

Do not let your pride fall,don’t walk nakedto his arms in tenderness,walk rather away in tearsthat the world has never seenand never scorned. It was so easy and simple for pure childheartsto follow the trail of happiness,but our souls can […]

I don’t want to hear the sad legendthe forest tells.It whispers still between the conifers,it sighs yet between the leaves,yet long slides the shadows between the sinister trunks.Come out on the road. Nobody meets us there.The evening dreams pale red […]

How my soul loves the foreign lands,as if it had no homeland.In distant countries stand the big rocksthat my thoughts linger on.It was a stranger who wrote the strange wordson the hard screen called my soul.Days and nights I lay […]

The sun went down over the foam of the sea and the beach sleptand up in the mountains someone was singing…When the words fell into the water they were dead…And the song disappeared behind the firs and the twilight led […]

The light birds high in the airdon’t fly for me,but the heavy stones on the low beachrest for me.Long did I lay at the foot of the sinister mountainand listen to the wind’s commandin the strong branches of the fir. […]

In the depths glide strange fishes,unknown flowers shine on the beach;I have seen red and yellow and all other colours, –but the vast, vast sea is the most dangerous to behold,it makes me thirsty and awoken for waiting adventures:what happens […]

Oh, to observe windowsand recall walls,that a garden can be knowingand a tree can turn around and ask:Who hasn’t come and what isn’t good,why is the emptiness heavy and says nothing?The bitter carnations stand close along the waywhere the darkness […]

All my castles in the air have melted like snow,all my dreams have flowed away like water,out of everything I have loved I have but little left;a blue sky and some pale stars.The wind passes quietly through the trees.The emptiness […]

The last stars of night shine faintly.I see them from my window. The sky is pale,you barely sense the day in the distance.A silence rests over the lake,a whisper lurks between the trees,my old garden listens absent-mindedlyto the breath of […]

We, women, we’re so close to the brown earth.We ask the cuckoo what it expects of the spring,we embrace the naked trunk of the firand search for signs and advice in the sunset. I loved a man once, he believed […]

Was it not yesterdaythe light daughter of the forest celebrated her weddingand everybody was so happy?She was the light bird and the bright spring,she was the hidden road and the laughing bush,she was the intoxicating, fearless summer night.She was immodest, […]

I have a joycat in my arms,it purrs and spins the thread of joy.Joycat, my joycat,get me these things:get me a golden ringthat says I’m happy;get me a mirrorthat says I’m beautiful,get me a fanthat waves away my sinister thoughts.Joycat, my joycat,purr […]

In the vast forest I long wandered lost,I sought the fairytales my childhood had heard. In the tall mountains I long wandered lost,I sought the dream-castles my youth had built. In my beloved’s garden I didn’t get lost,there sat the […]