small stone -1

pale
sun

hardly
a face
there

small stone -2

old
streets

unrecognizable


one
two


steps

(hardly)

(hardly any light hardly a language two or three crows)

New haiku publication

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(3 onion haiku)

this onion never finishes after all I'm a ordinary man

the banal onion/spirit thing I scratch my bum with a fork

”yeah, yeah, make me cry you onion-thing” I can still whistle ”when the saints ...”

(sigh)

As soon as my tongue touches it I know I'm licking the wrong side of the cigaret paper; no glue.

Så snart mit tunge rører det, ved jeg, at jeg slikker på den forkerte del af cigaretpapiret; ingen lim.

:

My fingers are cold. The coffee is cold. I hate winters with or without snow.

Mine fingre er kolde. Kaffen er kold. Jeg hader vintre med eller uden sne.

at the other station

At the station I take shelter from the rain in the thrashed shed. Two boys around the age of 14 sit there laughing. They're dressed for winter in a way that suggest that they're not quite grown-ups in their mothers' eyes and maybe not fully aware of – or weighed down by – the dictates of fashion. As they're passing jokes and puns about killer-whales I can't help myself, but join in; or interrupt, actually. We agree that it might be better to freeze to death in the cold water rather than being chewed up. I'm not sure how, but we end up with wondering about what hedgehogs in microwave ovens would be like. Some cruel form of a nail-bomb? It's really boys' imaginations let loose and I don't feel out of place though 40 years older than them. I just enjoy laughing and fooling around after 4 weeks of being locked up with a mean virus.

after coughing a sudden hole in the December clouds

A girl and with an older boy – a young man, rather – join the two boys. They make room for the newcomers on the remnants of the bench. They obviously goes to the same school and the girl is in the same class as the boys though she looks somewhat older. Girls tend to do that in that age. Her hair is dyed, make-up is heavy, a cloud of tacky perfume surrounds her and she is fashionably dressed. The older boy lets her sit in his lap. The boyish boys suddenly get less boyish and more embarrassed as if they try to mature in a matter of seconds. They sit on needles and their winter pale faces - acne and all – takes on a faint red color. No more giggles or killer-whales and I take another mint-drop while they talk about someone in their class. The rails lit up before the train comes around the bend.

edge of the year less and less roses to pick

at the station

I seek shelter from the rain in the waiting booth at the station. It has a roof but the sides are partly penetrable and the rain is freezing cold. 12 minutes till the train comes and leaves again. It's the end of a very long and winding track. Two young girls occupies the bench and giggle. They talk about boys and what go give them for Christmas. I stop myself before I suggest: hedgehogs. They wouldn't get it anyway. They decide on articles that were not very boyish in my time, skin-cleaning stuff and perfume. Maybe they hope their boyfriends would smell better and have less acne. What do I know.

An elderly man looking feeble but cocky drags a can of strong beer from his plastic bag. He may have been a gentleman or a womanizer in his days, but now … He glances secretly and repeatedly at the young girls and I have no trouble imagining what he is thinking. As we walk to the train he makes some sort of a pirouette to get a good look at two other girls' asses almost loosing his balance. This was probably his last chance. The dusk has ended.

still no frost
something forgotten sprouts
in the gravel

pale green cosmos / lysegrønt kosmos

As a child I had speculations about how Cosmos really was constructed. I pictured myself and the World as living on a very big person, who in turn lived on an even bigger person along with his family and world and this contruction went on and on. I never thought of it having and end. Curiously enough all these enormous persons were pale green, and we lived on his left big toe.

winter rain
in Moby Dick
a sqashed fly

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Da jeg var barn røg jeg ud i overvejelser om, hvordan Kosmos virkelig var indrettet. Jeg så mig selv og verdenen befinde sig på et meget stort menneske, som igen befandt sig på en endnu større person samen med sin familie og verden, og den konstruktion blev ved og ved. Jeg forestillede mig aldrig, at det havde en ende. Underligt nok var alle disse enorme mennesker lysegrønne, og vi levede på hans venstre storetå.

vinterregn
i Moby Dick
en mast flue

From MY attic 2 - fragments (tbc (likely))

I would hide my smokes in a hole in the side of the terrazzo staircase.

I keep fluxing between my different ages. Maybe time up until the present is fluid. For years I've never been older than 32. Or something.

I keep writing in another language. The one I was surrounded by when I finally bothered making sounds.

These are my hands. They have hold a gazillion things from toy cars to babies, breasts and keys. How well they remember.

I never made money having an opinion.

When she was younger my mother was a girl. My father saw her. She wasn't allowed to cast her shadow anywhere outside without her father's say so.

You were younger. So was I. We cast shadows. But not when we sleep.

Fame is the name of a bug-eaten mud-tiger. Tantalizing.

What really goes on nobody know, but it's started and we can't do nothing; even that is an action. Me and a pal mimed to all his Beatles singles on badminton racket guitars.

There must be life beyond the three chords.

First guitar and totally lost. Second guitar and totally swallowed.

My granddad was everywhere I looked. Smiling and not smiling.

I just hid, or, I just hit. Whatever.

Now I can imagine what mum and dad felt like when I arrived. And I remember my sister's arrival. It snowed a lot that evening.

Memory is biological or reverse: biology has a memory. At birthdays there's cakes and buns with raisins for those who like it.

Presence is not an unambiguous thing or a double negative.

Order is temporary. It's in the order of things. Disorder is a human concept. It has to do with our limited capacity to see the whole – or the hole. What our meager instruments – maths and models – can't grasp we call chaos – or darkness. In short.

These days daylight is sparse. I'm overall on good terms with my feet.

(Could there be a mythology where the World was something barfed up by a giant beast?)

From MY attic - fragments (tbc (likely))

(I won't quote myself if you won't ...)

It's all sugary and carbon dominated connections, elephants, mars-bars and politicians.

I should give a lecture on the vanity of modern science, but I won't.

Four days a week things are more or less the same as the remaining three.

A fairytale: there is a sun up there behind the clouds. We call it “Sun”.

How dare they, the blabbering birds black as sin, to shit on my firewood?

I'm not sure. Of that I'm certain.

Abolished the hope that one day “the world” will make sense. It's a meantime-place for experimenting and only a few percent of us get anything right.

I come and go regularly.

It's a hand-out out of hands.

It's less risky to risk less like in roulette with 4 numbers and a square ball.

Sex is definitely fun.

There's a door where there ought to be a hole in the wall and a discontinued star.

It's a fever and I'm not giving up.

My father was a boy when he was younger. In summer he would cast a shadow. My mother saw him.

I had the mums and was photographed kicking a ball. Those were black-and-white days. I was developed by professionals.

I held my hand out, she grabbed it the girl who smelled of pee.

The end of the world (my first) on December 26th. How I hated Orthon for ruining my Christmas. That evening I enjoyed my presents and fought my sister.

A discharge, katharsis or too much candy. I spend a day throwing up.

One summer evening I ate 16 slices of bread with salami and tinned mackerel. It was after a long walk. We visited the oldest oak tree in Denmark.

(nightfall)

nightfall and the question of predestination gathers dust with her snoaring

The weight - a haibun

The tic-toc of the cheep walk clock … should really throw that one out. Its loud sound makes time goes slower. Or so it seems. There's a certain grandmother-feel about it but in a sad way. It doesn't evoke strawberry flavored memories, but those of loneliness, loss and having nothing more to hope for than days without illness. I often visited my maternal grandmother after grandfather died. She was a tiny woman with very bad eyesight – practically blind. And her loneliness, of which she never spoke, of course, filled her rooms with something I only gradually came to recognize. You can't take sorrow, loneliness and longing for the past away from people if that is all they have left; and you can't compensate for what they've lost. Remembering her face I can see how slow time passed for her those last years.

ripples on the coffee

a passing train

at 2 o'clock

Tricking the donkey - haibun

This supposedly had to happen. I pulled out some plugs and started revising haiku from the past seven months. What a triumph for the over-ego, the ego that says: get serious, constructive, ordered and whatever label it uses to get me doing something like this, which is largely against my go-with-the-flow-of-intuition nature. But I started it so I will have to go through with it. Though, I tricked myself into taking it one part at a time. It's only the folder named “gendai haiku” I'm revising. Otherwise I couldn't drag myself into this project. I take a break, dance a little to a song on the radio by The Raveonettes and open a couple of windows to get in some O2.

November dusk

at some point this mirror

was emptied

I step out on the landing to check the feel of the weather – or what you would call this second week stand-still of mist and no wind or sun. On my left the sound of a flock of rooks probably “rooking” around the church tower, on my right the juvenile remarks of sanitation people working. Always something to do at the inn. I can still blow smoke rings.

lighting a candle by a dying flame I'm told it's a full moon

Mercenary - a haibun

Sun up at 7:44 and down again 16:36. Moon down up at 14:22 and down again close to 1 in the morning. Just around when the street lamp outside my bedroom window. On top of that it's the 5^th day of mist. This darkness doesn't please me, and whenever November starts to really devour daylight, I think of my great-great and many times great grandfather. He was a Spanish mercenary with Napoleon's army and got stationed in this land of mud and darkness. He remained here after the war and must have met a girl. There's no other way to procreate, that I know of. Not one that extends the blood-line anyway. And I think: “Why on Earth would he choose this country and this climate when he could have stayed in Spain?” I obviously don't get an answer, but pictures of hunger, prisoner of war camps, abandonment and persecution, poverty and the impossibility of getting all the way back to Spain from Denmark some 200 years ago flash by just above the surface of lukewarm coffee. Nothing to do but wonder and make a fresh pot.

half a day moon

these days everything

is about cut-backs

Revisit - a haibun

I thought I had been sucked into the past. That sort of thing happens from time to time. I sat on the train on the way to the big city – well, as big as they come in Denmark – when a hippie-looking guy boarded with his monstrous Big Dane dog. My thoughts went in two directions. I thought: now, there's a weirdo, knowing very well that in this part of the country many “off-siders” have found a cheap place to live as it's rather poor. And I thought: great!!! Nice to see a flash of the past, and my nose replayed all kinds of smells associated with the early -70's. Patchouli, sandalwood, fenugreek, hashish and wet and dirty “Afghan” fur coats, which was a bit of a turn-off, that last part. After having put his corn-pipe away he sat himself down in a very upright position: straight back, both feet on the floor and looking us, the other travellers, straight in the eyes. I nodded. He nodded. Dog said nowt. Then he padded the seat at his left side (he'd taken the window seat) and the dog, big as half a horse, jumped up and sat perfectly cool beside him, straight as a statue. The dog had a colourful tie as leash. We bumped on while I was listening to Incredible String Band.

straightened stream

a mirrored swan

asks twice

bird and house / fugl og hus - some sort o' haibun

As the Earth turns - and I'm told it does - a feeble light crawls over the roof of the inn. Still haven't wept a slink … slept a wink and it's getting tiresome, I hope. I notice a magpie on that roof and decide that it's from there the house beneath it came. Why not? Like some sort of egg that'll hatch Christmas and Bingo parties, lame C&W parties with pale quaint Danes doing line dance. Not quite satisfied with the order of things ”in the World” (said in grimacing way with that expression 54 years old adolescent present when they forget they're … 54).

I decide that the bird came before the house.

November mist the chair is as solid as usual

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Idet Jorden drejer - nogen har sagt, at den gør det – kryber et spinkelt lys over kroens tag. Har endnu ikke løjet et uk … lukket et øje, og det er ved at være ret trættende, håber jeg. Jeg får øje på en skade på taget og og beslutter mig for, at det er derfra, huset under den kom. Hvorfor ikke? Som en slags æg, der snart skal klækkes til julefrokoster og Bingofester, smagløse C&W fester med blege kejtede danskere, der danser line dance. Jeg er ikke helt tilfreds med den rækkefølge, der gælder ”i Verden” (sagt med et vrængende udtryk, som passer sig til en 54-årig pubertær, når de glemmer, at de er … 54)

Jeg bestemmer mig for, at fuglen kom før huset.

novembertåge stolen er af fast stof som sædvanlig

Morning visitor / Morgengæst - haibun

Morning visitor

Morning visitor: the mother cat from down-stairs jumps in through my window. She must have been out all night. I really don't mind. She's a tidy but very shy and nervous cat with a double mind – tied to the house and out and about. Her folks took her in 2 or 3 years ago when she had had kittens in an a car wreck – their own car wreck. Now she and two kittens from that bunch live there. This spring she had 3 new kittens, 2 survived and one has found a new home. The male cat from the first litter is very attention-seeking, very cuddly and cool as cucumber around the other cats. He's the center of the world, daring and curls up in my lap falling a sleep after having put his claws in my thigh the moment he gets inside. Whenever he's outside and hear me open the door, he comes running from where ever he is. Luckily without mice or birds in his mouth. If the weather allows I let my front door stay open for those of the cats that didn't get inside when their people left for work. They eat and sleep a while and charges off again. That's it.

Will have to think up another way of doing things when winter comes.

lingering mist for 5 minutes I don't have to know everything

..*..

Morgengæst

Morgengæst. Moder-katten, der bor nedenunder, hopper ind gennem vinduet. Hun må have været ude hele natten. Det gør mig ikke noget. Hun er en ordentlig, renlig men noget sky og nervøs kat med et dobbelt sind – hun er knyttet til hjemmet men skal altså også rende omkring. Underboerne to hende ind for 2 eller 3 år siden da hun fik killinger I et bilvrag – deres eget bilvrag. Nu bor hun der med to af killingerne. Dette forår fik hun 3 nye killinger, og 2 af dem overlevede - én af dem fik et nyt hjem. Hankatten fra det første kuld er meget opmærksomhedskrævende, enormt kælen og ekstremt cool overfor de andre katte. Han er verdens centrum og ruller sig sammen og falder i søvn i mit skød – efter først at have stukket kløerne i mit lår – så snart han er indenfor. Når han er ude og hører, at jeg åbner døren, kommer han springende fra, hvor det nu er, han befinder sig. Heldigvis uden mus eller fugle i munden. Hvis vejret tillader det, lader jeg min hoveddør stå åben for de af kattene, der ikke nåede – eller ville – komme ind, før deres mennesker tog på arbejde. De spiser og sover lidt, inden de stikker af igen. Det er dét.

Må finde på en anden måde at gøre det på, når det bliver vinter.

tågen hænger i 5 minutter behøver jeg ikke vide alting

Note from an exile - Presence (haibun)

Note from an exile - Presence

October and a few gulls seem like they're cut out of the low hanging clouds. What feast for the eye to see a few crows and ravens making their way to where ever they go. Even if it's only from one tree to another. In October they often remind me of an imagined medieval scenery. Cloaked knights on big horses riding to or back from a gruesome deed. De Sammensvorne rider fra Finderup Lade efter mordet på Erik Klipping i 1286 / The Conspirators rides away from the barn at Finderup after the murder of Erik Klipping in 1286. A sad excuse for daylight comes through the windows as if it couldn't care less. On days like these I check my pulse, my birth date against the date on various electronic calendars and the news and usually conclude I'm alive. I step out a bit to feel the weather and assure myself it's there. No more no less.

lukewarm coffee

there is no horoscope

for the Black Dog

Note from an exile - aqua frizzante. Haibun

Cold. I put on two pair of socks rather than turn on the heat. Too expensive. The electric heaters eat a lot power and the firewood hasn't arrived yet. I pick up on the distant sirens of an ambulance. Well, I guess it's an ambulance as I can't see the road from here … or any road for that matter. Assume it's for the mixed nursing home some two hundred meters from here, and a hundred from the church. I crush a couple of pain killers with a spoon and pour the powder in a glass which I fill with aqua frizzante. Somehow I prefer that. Could buy effervescent tablets but I'm too lazy these days to go the pharmacy (another town). And leaf by leaf my view to the church is restored to its winter-edition.

back and forth between nothings in a state of flesh with a name

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Koldt. Jeg tager to par sokker på i stedet for at tænde for varmen. For dyrt. De elektriske radiatorer æder for meget strøm og brændet er kommet endnu. Jeg opfanger sirenen fra en fjern ambulance. Jeg gætter på, at det er en ambulance; jeg kan ikke se vejen herfra ... eller nogen vej i det hele taget. Jeg antager, at den er til den blandede institution, der ligger et par hundrede meter herfra og hundrede meter fra kirken. Jeg knuser et par Kodimagnyl med en ske og hælder pulveret i et glas, som jeg igen fylder med aqua frizzante. Af en eller anden grund er det sådan, jeg foretrækker det. Kunne købe brusetabletter, men gider ikke tage til apoteket (en anden by). Blad efter blad bliver min udsigt til kirken ført tilbage til sin vinterudgave.

frem og tilbage mellem intetheder i en tilstand af kød med et navn

Catching up ... or what I've been doing these last days

(rekindling the man in the jar. copyright J. S. H. Bjerg 2011)

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first haibun ever

Catching up or catching a cold

Me and steadiness, how much more incompatible can it get. I know that – and those who know me know that. Always on the way to something new to explore even if it seems only a microscopic move within a box they don't understand anyway. I could call it versatility to make it sound better – and I do. So this is how it is: just before sleep, which I don't seem to get much of these days anyway, an idea pops up, one I should act upon. Or I could think: “If the idea is good enough it'll be there in the morning as well”. Ha! I get up in the middle of the night and start “acting”. As long as it's winter I don't feel possessed because I can get to bed again before sunrise. In summer sunrise is upon me – well, us – before I actually got to bed. Sunrise is the worst when I'm sleepless.

dry skin the quantum field still not harvested

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Some belated 3ournals from October - undated

For the first time an Oxford crime story in winter. A set of dictionaries on sale with pages actually sticking. I find ”brusque”.

*

Flu vaccination at the retirement home – I feel young-ish. The cat and his sister visits, she is ho shy, he's not. Bitterly cold.

*

A day of things dropping, but the sun remains in place. Cat wants attention and tries to climb me like a tree. All these subs!!!

*

”A full breakfast or a continental?” the language of the Empire dies only slowly. Cat falls asleep on it't back. I'm immobilized.

*

Scrubbing the firewood covers - spider's nests all over. The cats are having a grand time. Luckily the sun seems inexhaustible.

*

“U” - fall is my season for Incredible String Band. 1 moving-box of firewood left – I'm partly of Viking breed (brrr). Sun is o.k.

*

1. Dalziel & Pascoe form the time the world came in 4:3. Händel's Partenope, well, only act 1. Came upon a theme for Prune Juice.

*

There's def a diff between haiku & poetry! The next one with ”dreamer” in their bio gets blocked. I'm pissed off w/o knowing y

*

Another ”can't wake up properly” day. Listening to the radio I'm bored w the lack of sincerity in the ”new” music. Repetitions galore.

3ournals

October 9, 2011

Pink Floyd in Pompei before they got predictable. 2 pair of socks under a gray sky. I'm a thing water runs through daily.

*

Jug band blues - it costs to be visionary. An orchid drops yet a flower by a handcoloured photo of mum as young. It's still Sunday.

*

Half the nation enjoy reducing their brain-scope to the reptil area by drink & dope. Men make money by running their heads into walls. Future is doubleplusgood.

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October 7, 2011

Sneezing at last – what a strange thing to feel relief by. Sister got a job and my niece passed an exam. Every tree is shaking.

3ournals

October 1, 2011

Warmest October day in a 130 years. Man U lost momentum, as they say. A new hoover tube, so no more excuses.


October 2, 2011

I guess something is happening, but it's off my radar. The sky is hidden by something semi-transparent. I'm an arm-coffee automation.


October 3, 2011

A sudden urge for pop-corn, but the house will stink all night. This fall is a New Order / Joy Division kind of fall. I'm still vertical.


October 4, 2011

”Lights out” I yell to the sky – always wanted to do that – but only the North Star listens – sort of. No corners in my soup.

*

The toad of hell is paved with good intestines. In my sleep I talk about not sleeping – I hear. After that I count everything twice.

3ournals

September 29, 2011

Changing filters in both water taps. Soon the golf course will be as large as the village. The cat has had a bad night, I'm told.

*

September 28, 2011

Unstuck in time – clocks, watch, phones and computer on each its time. I get minutes older walking from one room to another. I stay put.

Interview

I was interviewed by and Indian magazine about being a haijin: http://okiedoks.com/celebrity-interviews-celebrity-of-the-month---haiku-poet-johannes-s-h-bjerg-268.aspx

3ournals

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Through the toilet window the noise from rooks circling the church tower. Do dirty dishes multiply during the night? The cat's ADHD, I bet.

*

Attention bereavement seems to be THE driving force these days. Another midday funeral – this village is dying. Writer's shoulders.

3ournal

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Summer makes a revisit and I drive along manure stinking roads. In my search box: Berlusconi's parties. I knock over a glass of water.

3ournal

On the night train a drunk man oozing of bitterness argues with an unseen woman. Most of this country in utter darkness. Got a blue face.

3ournal

*
The street lamp goes on at 5 AM. Had submissions accepted though I thought the plublication was dead. Stopped talking to dead spiders.

3ournals

September 20, 2011

The sky remains colorless. Strong winds and ravens make me think of all things medieval. I pick up my drawing routine.



September 21, 2011

Sleepless again – can't even conjure a pleasant daydream. More white hairs in the beard. A new portion of Bach's flower remedies.

3ournals - September 19, 2011

Is Volapyk made from voles and puke? Info-age, a gathering of trivia from individual world constructions. Some are into cheese and ties.

*

On the train a scruffy guy rehearses ”Auld lang syne” on a harmonica. 1. ½ of the day bright as summer. Neighbor's cat wanna move in, I guess.

3ournal - September 18, 2011

2 AM watching The Rutles – I wait for a party at the inn to die down. The waning moon and a waxing one on top of my head. Loneliness sucks.

*

Repeatedly playing “The Gnome” - he changes the colors of trees. For some reason my bare feet are warm. The cat allowed a wee bit inside.

3ournal - September 17, 2011

First day in 4 months I wear socks. I fear the new government will crumble fast. Is something tampering with my taste buds?

3ournal - September 16, 2011

Only 4 hours of sleep but still ”bright” in the 'ead. We've now got our first female PM – she got the votes AM. Ordered a bigger tv-package.

Star Trek fragment

Old Star Trek episode. I've figured it out: it's the camera that shakes when the Enterprise is hit by laser canons. How good these actors were to tumble first in one direction and then another when the camera was tipped. And you can't see the strings holding the space ships in place. Did they have an in-turn to stop them from dangling? Space is mysterious. A Klingon with a butter knife becomes dizzy by looking at an impressionest painting. Thank G for stereotypes. And an anti-dizziness drug called Vertazine.

*

Gammelt Star Trek afsnit. Jeg har fundet ud af det: det er kameraet, der ryster, når Enterprise bliver ramt af laserkanononer. De der skuespillere var gode til at tumle først den ene vej og så den anden, når kameraet tiltede. Og man kan ikke se snorene, der holder rumskibene på plads. Havde de voluntører til at forhindre dem i at dingle omkring. Rummet er mystisk. En klingon med en smørkniv bliver svimmel ved at kigge på et impressionistisk maleri. G ske tak og lov for stereotyper. Og et anti-svimmelheds medikament ved navn Vertazin.

3ournals

15.09.11

Biting beard hairs again – why did I get scissors? Dad calls laughing, he loves “Penguins / Pingviner”. It's election day – noisy.

*

Exercising my right I vote and is offered a ripe pear and a smile. Never saw so many many people on the streets. A bright autumn day.

fragment

Det har intet at gøre med sukker. Det er et hul i verden, et hul der glider ind og ud af fokus. Og nogle ord, der rummer flere søm og torne end de rummer løfter. Den næsten fulde måne er for skarp.

*

It has nothing to do with sugar. It's a hole in the World, a hole that glides in and out of focus. And words holding more nails and thorns than promises. The near full moon is too bright.

3ournals

3ournal is genre or type of fragment invented by Liam Wilkinson. You can read about it here It consists of 3 non-related "happenings" in a day - or part of the day - and is limited to max. 140 characters (Twitter-limit).You can write more than one a day and include "internal" happenings.


I should note that my datings are in Danish sequence: dd/mm/yy
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31.08.11

Still not enough sleep at night. ”Night”mares in the daytime nap. Switching on the radio and turning it off again – endlessly.

*

Utterly dazed by lack of sleep – again. Counting movements that are repetitive. Fail to catch the name of a band on the radio.

*

At last, a day without rain. For the 100th time I conclude: instant espresso sucks. Do economists actually DO anything in the 3D world?

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01.09.11

The light has changed. I zap through endlessly repeated election speaches. Note: get small change for the laundromat.

*

Trying to do what I planned, but a migraine sets in. A house pops up beneath a crow or ... Cross spiders are really big now.

*

A wish for numbness. At the super an awful smell of something really synthetic. More notes for a post-migraine state.

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02.09.11

A night of chemical sleep, but sleep it was. In town I buy sandalwood incense and herbal teas. The usual schizo sings about the “Worldman”.

*

“Heaven knows I'm miserable now”. A young girl in next to nothing and a cell phone. Lotuses in the neighbour's fish pond.l

*

Overly joyous, giddy rather, as in spring. I answer the phone: Danish Giraffe Import. A wedding invite I'm rather doubtful about.

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03.09.11

Decent tobacco at last. I giggle over a rerun of 'Allo 'Allo. Remember I forgot to eat yesterday evening - a step forward.

*

Interview by an Indian e-zine, my shoulders hurt like hell. The nation goes insane in this election campaign. I feel like a rerun.

*

Not the least self-absorbed: will this rash grow into a rhino? A late wasp dies in the windowsill. Some Finnish song on the radio.

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04.09.11

Waking from a chess dream before the check-mate. I postpone the rinsing of pens and brushes. The Northern darkness already lurking.

*

#3ournal Bhajans, I don't understand a word, but my atoms do. This is a “finding-dead-insects” day. A man with a dog too jumpy to piss.

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05.09.11

Learning my grandkids are unhappy I face a day of weariness. Will this rain ever … My forefinger turns white and cold again.

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Raynaud syndrome; at least I got something. A white orchid suddenly drops 4 flowers. Amused by the image of sending penguins to USA.

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06.09.11

Round and round the laundry goes. It's a guy's thing not to fold the sheets. I talk to stangers as if they were friends. #3ournal


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Blue suede shoes at half price – I'll look like a bum, but eh? A patient on leave talks to a lamp post. I watch ”Bleach” 255 -260.


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According to the news the world repeats itself every 30 minutes. Two effervescent tablets in water – sscchh! Anything goes.

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07.09.11

Thinking of water again, how it never stays in one place or in one form. A package of ayurvedic meds. lovesliescrushing's wall of noise.

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Staring at the sky again – it simply must become penetrable eventually. The abuse of Pärt's Alina. Starting a boot-time virus scan.

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12.09.11

Running low on stepping stones. Can the void be in more than one place or in any at all? What's left of Katia makes the trees move.

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13.09.11

Working on an excuse to drop a wedding I don't understand. Neighbour's cat waiting on my doorstep. Birdfeeder overgrown.

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14.09.11

My eyes are too small for this light. Neighbor's cat tries to get in, but he'll piss all over I fear. In a daze from painkillers.   

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out of hibernation

This blog will now function as a container for my writing of fragments - be it small stones, 3ournals or other kinds of rubble, gravel or loose particles.


What about aros and small stones?
Well, in general my haiku has taken directions away from mere observation and more or less communication of the obvious and trivial - in the end: the uninteresting.

... and Fiona dropped the #aros tag ...


Photographs does that way better and with more freedom for the viewer/reader.

My haiku activities will be at my bilingual haiku blog: "2 tongues / 2 tunger" and "monostich" the collaborative 1-line haiku blog.

Otherwise you may find me in various publications where experimental haiku is presented.

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New book.


This summer I had a haiku collection - or rather series - published: "Penguins / Pingviner" with 122 haiku about ... penguins, as you might have guessed. It's available on Cyberwit.

Thirty First Stone

thirty and one stones -
a shasei haijin
evaporates

Thirtieth Stone

low presseure -
baffled I fight
the weight of air

Twenty Ninth Stone

what I knew
what I held
worn out

Twenty Eighth Stone

still sleepless -
a duet by crows
and garbage trucks

Twenty Sixth Stone

after the rain -
that yellow shining ball
in the sky again

Twenty Fifth Stone

frail dawn -
why the birds bother to sing
beats me



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(weather here in Dk is like in October)

Twenty Fourth Stone(s)

autumn visits -
the black dog opens
one yellow eye

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autumnal weather -
rooks are having
a family quarrel

Twenty Third Stone - for the Norwegian people

sudden darkness -
White Supremacy colors
the summer red

Twenty Second Stone

second day of rain
the swallows
keep silent

Twenty First Stone

overcast -
no fast food chains
on the moon for now






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no more moon travels by NASA

Twentieth (Century) Stone

Tour de France men imitating ants

Nineteenth Stone

nineteen stones -
a tiny pyramid
for an ant king

Eighteenth Stone

migraine -
the humming ventilator
is a rainbow bridge

Seventeenth Stone

train trough the rain a string of named places

Sixteenth Stone

family dinner a shower passes incognito

Fitteenth Stone

family gathering my fake-blond niece with a tatoo in Spanish

Fourteenth Stone

second day of rain I still have my name

Thirteenth Stone

summer rain the missing pattern of swallows flight

Twelfth Stone

smell of barbecue the pile of books still waiting

Eleventh Stone

a mess of leaves in perfect stillness – quiet heat

Tenth Stone

white butterfly a three day headache and bare feet

Ninth Stone

day of silence it's in dishes nature to pile up

Eighth Stone

washing rice the shrieking return of swallows

Seventh Stone

quiet heat a fly zig-zags between yesterday's cups

Sixth Stone

bruised knee the weight of day spent in eternity

Fifth Stone

cooing dove this day too seems stuck in a groove

Fourth Stone

waking up early why do crows caw in threes?

Third Stone

humid heat the word ”Dear” hides in a pool of ink

Second Stone

incessant rain -
a forgotten girlfriend asks for
a recent photo

First Stone

first light this night's insomia ends in sleep and a phonecall

white and purple
and yet the scent of lilacs
is a ladder

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hvid og lilla
og alligevel er syrenernes duft
en stige

haiku

dandelions
May Day talks on tv
gives no new hope

haiku

what a new morning
even new pains sprouting
in my blackbird body

haiku

April shower -
dog too
with droopy head

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april byge -
også hunden
hænger med hovedet

haiku

up the hoover
ancestors & asteroids -
morning blackbird

haiku

April 2.
still not sure
what to trust

haiku

April fools day -
I set soap bubbles free
in a hammering rain

haiku

a weary war-god
set to guard sheep
for 11 months


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March - the month of Mars, the Roman god of war - comes to an end. April - the month of "opening" the earth - takes over. An ancient Danish name for April is "Sheep-month", the month when sheep and cattle again was let out to grass. Another name was "Grass-month".

haiku

Monday, 28 March 2011


hummmmmmming forth a bird ::: Pan as a showman

haiku

round a needles eye
a gathering of camels and penguins -
I dip one foot

haiku

March 26 2011

showing its first teeth
the ice free lake
plays with the wind

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March 25 2011

toddlers new sandals
always ending up
on the wrong feet

haiku

not very subtle
the attack of pollen -
eyes firmly shut

haiku

following the spring
I end up in a yellow haze
by the feet of trees

haiku

spring equinox -
what IS the point
of shaving?

haiku

birthday again -
luckily I'm old enough
to ignore it

haiku

spring hesitating
at the bakers' we comment on
the dull weather

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Saturday, 19 March 2011

a short visit
on my newphews chin
signs of beard

haiku

ay, defiant winter
throwing handfuls of snow
into the spring

haiku

a fallen Manneken Pis
besides sacks of cement -
spring hesitates

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en væltet Mannekin Pis
ved siden af cementsække -
foråret tøver


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English and Danish

Spring

not with pipes and drums
but with chirps and sprouts -
spring comes marching

tanka

while holding my grandson
a Japanese mother
wanders through a town
washed off the earth
in search of her child

how powerless the words ...

haiku

look of surprise
the tiny boy sucking
his first flask

soccer match
even the smallest boys
have cell phones

Train ride

fine mist
miss Spring is lifting
her skirt

haiku

March 11 2011

spring lawn -
colorful balls
in bloom




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Due to personal circumstances this blot will no longer be udated on a daily basis. Enjoy anyway.

haiku

Western Wynde -
'tis a day for listening
to Thomas Tallis

haiku

rain - crocus left outside

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TUESDAY, 8 MARCH 2011

silver sickle first harvest of snowdrops

haiku

touch of spring -
first warblers weaving
a web of song

haiku

carnival -
Spiderman holding
his fathers hand

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fastelavn -
Spiderman holder
sin far i hånden


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(English & Danish)

haiku

Northern wind a shopping list for Eden

haiku

evenly spread ::: this thing called light

haiku

garbage
and there among cans and boxes
first crocus

haiku

second day of spring
the calendar says -
should stay quiet

haiku

land of mud -
the footprints
I won't follow

haiku

Feb. 28th

these brown hills
where viking chiefs lived -
housing projects

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Feb. 27th

family birthday
four generations gathered
loudly

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Feb. 26th

over the village
he spread his wings
the Cloud King

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Due to different circumstances I didn't get to post the haiku for 26, 27 of this month - that is why these three posts all is posted under the same date.

haiku

another Friday
first sprouts of spring
by the wastebins

haiku

no questions ::: a fork in the road

haiku

in the coffee filter -
no readable future

haiku

february sun
feeble chirping saluting
an unseen spring

haiku

february sun
a bucket full of
wavering faces

haiku

up and down
the mossy stairs
Ferbruary wind

haiku

dead spider

nothing to do

with the full moon

haiku

on a hilltop
sharing the same view
church and I

haiku

February frost -

a bunch of birthdays

coming up

haiku

snow again -
after a dreamless sleep
I'm told I was laughing

haiku

returning at midnight
greeted by an icy wind -
that is all

haiku

that tiny breath -
grandson lying on me
after feeding

haiku

pale midday moon
no shame
no shame

haiku

winter morning -
laughing at misprints
in horoscopes

haiku

again the rain
the impossible maths
of crowd-dynamics

haiku

weaving clouds
jetplane pulling a white thread
across blue canvas

haiku

clouds no clouds
clouds no clouds
February gale

haiku

land of mud
with this puddle
it all starts

haiku

bad boys, street boys
mum is doing
the laundry

haiku

spheres of rainbows
and exited laughter
Tara playing with soap-bubbles


(Tara is my 20 month old granddaughter)

haiku

february rain
the innkeeper back
from winter vacation

haiku

coffee & cigarettes -
the Western wind roaring

haiku

outside
in the rain --
the rain

haiku

dust on the tv-screen
I write ”Clean Me”
across McGyvers' face

haiku

sorting coins

for the laundromat --

bleak winter light

tanka

sleepless
I struggle to imagine
what the bird looks like
that makes these
awkward screams

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not really a stone but, eh ...

haiku

this foot, that foot
along an empty road -
winter dusk

haiku

cold morning -
blackbird pirking
at frozen apples

haiku

rain ::: those nameless waters

haiku

sleepy village
red dots of holly berries
dangling

haiku

dusting off
the crawling goutweed
to welcome the sun

haiku

cold North Wind
in and out of my sleeves -
my jello-determination

haiku

lingering mist
branches hung
with water-pearls

haiku

ice cold Monday
my grandsons first day
tucked in his mothers arms

haiku

ring around the moon
I help my mother cross
the icy pavement

haiku

january
at the super more offers
on slimming products

senryu

waning moon -
entertainment deaths on tv
down to 30

haiku

thin ice
on the fish pond
the cautious steps of a seagull

haiku

full moon
and not a thing
to do about it

gogyohka

ice-free roads
two boys racing
their new bicycles
through the puddles -
pants of mud

haiku

rain
the small-talk of waters
reuniting

haiku

in and out of the mist
sparrows and chaffinches

haiku

jumping apples
I try to feed my grandchild

haiku

hip-hop lingo - the toddler pointing at ducks

haiku

from within the mist
slow clangs of church bells
death moves unseen

haiku

Scandinavian winter
the sun plays
hide and hide

haiku

flock of starlings
jabbering, jabbering
”this way, that way, this way, that way”

haiku

a new planet -
already my dustbag is full

haiku

midwinter -
bell of the ice-cream truck
extra persistant

haiku

morning twilight
the shape of things
falling into place

haiku

hard to put a finger on, this fog

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a little fog-theme here

senryu

a royal birth
the media goes into
sugary overdrive

haiku

rain -
one seagull
then nothing

haiku

winter funeral
mourners stumbling
through snowdrifts

haiku

melting snowdrift
back wheel of my bicycle
uncovered

haiku

january
still posters
announcing Christmas concerts

haiku

carpet of snow
needs a bit of hoovering
round the bird feeder

haiku

first workday
of the new year -
extra garbage trucks

haiku

after New Year
reduced prizes
on paper hats

haiku

a wheel barrel full
of burned out fireworks
gloomy afterparty

haiku

snow receding
the head of Buddha
greets the new year

haiku

stormy New Year -
fireworks flying
all over the place

gogyohka

first day
of a new year
born in showers of fireworks -
hopefully
we didn't frighten it