Monday, March 26, 2018

Johannes S. H. Bjerg - poems


Johannes S. H. Bjerg: a Dane who writes in Danish and English simultaneously and mainly haiku and haiku related forms. 1 of 3 of the editors of Bones - “Journal for contemporary haiku” (http://www.bonesjournal.com), and sole editor of “the other bunny - for the other kind of haibun” (http://theotherbunny.wordpress.com) and “One Link Chain” -  a blog for solo linked verse and haiku sequences (http://onelinkchain.blogspot.dk/) Has published several books: http://january-stones.blogspot.dk/p/books.html


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Finger 1.

fingerlebenliebenlassen
fingerlebenliebenlassen
dok dok dok

fingerladelskeleve
fingerladelskeleve
duk duk duk

stiirfunnar anekram ai tze nook
collazemfalir na tjuk

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Dlam.

stürzvogeln et bedemænd
on grassy viols
sur la pain e la dolor


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Conversation Pieces for Your Dinner Guests.

luxury mud

eager meaner eagle

swordly

ant i

korvkorv

afternoun

nebennuss

sobjective

poorless

brøðling

umph or scating

brainpole

nussenyder

barbieturate vs. barbieturage (discuss)

hegdehug

mucus glance

prefur


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Grammar. (Old Style)

pleem
plaam
pluum

pleemmen
plaammen
pluummen

pleemmeem
plaammaam
pluummuum

sturk ja mammen stuccolosta fniir
malla knyr
hatja

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Train Ride

t-train t-train t-train donk t-train t-train t-train donk t-train t-train t-train donk t-train t-train t-train donk t-train t-train t-train donk t-train t-train t-train donk t-train t-train t-train donk t-train t-train t-train donk t-train t-train t-train donk t-train t-train t-train donk t-train t-train t-train donk t-train t-train t-train donk t-train t-train t-train donk t-train t-train t-train donk t-train t-train t-train donk t-train t-train t-train donk t-train t-train t-train donk pfff

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Conversation Pieces for Fridge Hermits


I.

oops
oops again
oops

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think
thnik again
kniht

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no noho
noho nono
hoho

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puck it
pocket
pocket socket

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sleep
sleep pears
spears

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swoon
piggy money
bank

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have:
garden oceans
hold



II.

(argumentatives)

“take up your life and
walk sit eat buy
stand upright and yell”

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“you never do anything
with biscuit crumbs
on our shirt”

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“no,
grassshoppers!”

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“you always do stuff
with no shirt
on!”

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“let’s do biscuits
with
our shirts on”

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“unshirt this unshirt
that! I want my
biscuits”

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“now,
let’s paint
some hands!”

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“you old has been plant!”

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“I dreamed
you were covered
in tahina”

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“shoe
your
mouth!”



Undestruction Day

but the table remains
the table remains
remains table

with as many words
you can drum up you
cannot persuade it
to change

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Basic Landscape no.1

sky
on horizon on
lake

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Want

sometimes I feel
like that French actor
who may not be French
at all but has a right arm
that doesn’t work as well
as his left

but then I remember
my French
is wanting and I stroke
my beard
instead

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Fade

fade and begin again
fade and start over
fade and begin
over and again
start over and fade
into the beginning

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Ooooh, “We” Send Troops Out Again!

we’re sending troops
to the Baltic countries
and I think of salmon
and how my nephew is brilliant
at catching them

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Sort of Taking Stocks

you dream of horses
you say and I dream that
someone has moved into
the house I’m usually
dreaming of and now
I have to spend a few
dreams on walking about
looking for another

and perhaps it doesn’t really matter;
the house I usually dreamed of
that which continues to grow
as I enter it and begin
walking was in a sorry state
and you know me
I’m not keen on redecorating
on painting walls and woodwork
on washing old kitchen tiles
and all that

it’s easier to dream up
a new house

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