Fjordscene Poetry

it’s hard to lose weight when the urge to drinkstrikes me at inopportune times –like in the middle of a lectureor in the middle of the night – i lay awake and wonder and thinkand question how to best spend […]

roaring currents, breaking waves –cacophony around my desk –the ringing phones, the clanging keys,the voices – never at a rest –it swirls around me without end,but i am the office breakwater –it shocks me with its potencybut can’t rock my […]

I found myself in a splendid moment and thought that I should stay in it, and get the most out of it. The thought alone stole my presence and so I lost it. — Human beauty. The calmness that comes […]

the youth i never had keeps haunting me –it taunts me in the face of younger women –that which i never was, and cannot be again –the youth i never had plays out insteadin endless loop within my head – […]

Trying to figure out makeup at 29is just so sad –others have a head start of 15 yearsand a gallery of duck face selfiesto look back at –what have I got? I want to ask a woman’s advicebut I really […]

here i sit again – a square bug light illuminating everything –showing me a world wherein i have no wish to live –yet cannot escape – alcohol cancels out the pain – for a little while –my thoughts however press […]

Give me just a taste of life –something to make it worth my while –these empty days stretch behind and aheadand i can’t find the means to erase them – Give me something to hold onto –anything will do –just […]

the sun found meas i lay in hidingbeneath mounds of sleep –it gently shookremains of dreams off me –this way awakei stumble through the lightto what awaits me – the day: embodied crueltykilling dreams daily –

congratulations! you’ve scavenged outthis piece of poem from the dustbinthat is the words i left behind – somuch garbage of other kinds gone towaste, but this – the words – can bepreserved at least –a strange thing to ponder in […]

The snow liesfirm and white –The sea glowssummer-blue –Flaming sunand ice-clear airburns in tired eyes –Seabirds breed,hoarse starlings cry –The night comesblack and deep –Boats followteeming herring –Over the land in the westa star flickers green –

Brothers in the fogs of life,Brothers in the deprivation on Earth,the terrible exists,shame lives in pomp,death wanders by our sidessowing darkness and stench –,Brothers, created as humans,everything has a truthshining sharp and clear,everything has its lawunbreakable from the depths to […]

The storms roar –The winter wages its war –The sea wandersalong the coasts –The sky follows ithigh above the land –Small houses press themselvesanxiously to the Earth –The moon’s eye of icestares through the wall of nighton men, fetching coal […]

Dark faces around –The clear glasses on the table –The white surfthe white snowand eternal storm,our weak couragein the noise of the world –Down in front of the glass’ edgesinks the Almighty’s beardhis giant calmness, his commanding gaze,his tearful smile […]

Powers, controlling Heaven and Earththe sun and the storm and the sea,powers, who control, invisible to the eyes,the life and doings of humans,powers, who control, invisible to the soul,slavery and deprivation, trembling happiness,wars and horrors, shame and sin,powers, I beg […]

In the black darkness of the winter morningsounds from houses the choir of roosters –Shadows of menstomp towards the lamp of the port –The pounding of the engine pulls invisible boatstowards the whistling sea –Ice-heavy downpours brush from low roofsthe […]

See the sun, the sun,feel the air in the living breast,the grass under the foot in joy, joy –,for still you live –!O, see, the sun rises,see, your child sleeps,– see –!Still you live,your woman is joyful in your house […]

Even when it is still,when only a single grey cloudhangs heavy at sunset,the wave rises high in the airat the reef by the cape –Against the black stone-knoll of the capethe wave falls down againwith snow-white foam –Under the heavy […]