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JAN OSKAR HANSEN A collection of Tanka Senryu, Haiku and Zen Jan Oscar Hansen [Pick the date] Regarding Tanka, Senryu, Haiku and Zen, I follow my own rules.   Addiction Rain has abated A man under an awing Counts falling raindrops He has little else to do He stopped smoking last night Fiddles with a lighter Clicks it on and off forever Giggles to himself Kicks in a sweetshop window Grabs a handful of “all sorts” Tanka New Moon Storm was throwing love about Impossible night Yet, she said she loved me Who needs moon light now? ………. Endless rain We sit indoors Learning to know each other ………… Candlelight Electricity gone She is beautiful tonight ………….. Dawn Rain falls softly As not too wake us too early Tanka (Animal Welfare) If I were a chicken I would love to live in Swiss Protected by law You have to kill me quickly Before grilling me. ----- If I were a seal I would like the open sea Shun hunters on ice Who would only sell my skin To the rich ladies of Swiss. Senryu Today I see what was best for me Yesterday ……… Today I see what’s best for me, Tomorrow ……………… Today? How I’m supposed to know? It’s still early day Tanka Time has altered After the quack In Chile Seven o’clock is late It only arrives near eight And we get to live longer Senryu Death is not the foe It is a columniation of living Sea of nothingness ……………… Forever is a word Too awesome for one to grasp It has no horizon ……………… The worried man Was so very fortunate Died before doomsday Senryu Peace in our Time? From coliseums of our days Fans scream for blood. Senryu Afghanistan When bombs has creates wasteland Then we call it peace. Tanka When the masses shriek A soldier’s silence stands out He loves his enemy Knows of his fear and courage They are true brothers in arms Tanka When Obama met Lama Tennis players met in Dubai China refused to play When Hamas lost the first match The winners hurriedly left. Tanka Moral nihilism is Punishing a whole people Celebrate injustice Blind to victims suffering Victory without valor. Senryu She looks kissed Has been eating strawberries Night is closing in ………… Her love long fallow An old man smiled broadly Now she’s his nurse ---- He cheated the rich They sent him to jail forever So mind whom you rob ……………….. Now that I’m old I welcome every new day But I still hate rain Hell. (Tanka) The last man on earth When the night sky is inky Will die screaming His cry will freeze the oceans And its echo rent the sky Tanka Never been to Prague Not seen the Kafka statue And it makes me sad I have been to East Germany It broke my socialist heart Haiku Rain takes a break Jaded by its own languor White clouds and sunlight Senryu Once ardour is ember Out of the ashes flies The bird of friendship Tanka Accept old age The smug tellers of lies say Accord is mortal The smug think they are undying Liars fear the truth Senryu In the mind’s mere Tiny, silvery fishes swim Called senryu Senryu Poor Barack Obama One year as US president And he tows the line Tanka As the world heats up Surveillance will be easier Naked and vulnerable In a line stretching for miles We wait to be castigated Tanka Airport humiliation Standing there without shoes And holes in socks Belt, wallet, coins in a box Me! I rather take the train Red plastic roses Faded sepia by neglect Melancholic bouquet ……….. Red plastic noses For us to look at and laugh Sad is the joker ----- The gloomy guy At the traveling circus Is its funny clown Haiku Torn old diary Thrown hotly into the bin Tells of broken love --- The old diary Modest amongst bigger books Keeps my many dreams ----- Brown old diary Coldly exposes my sappiness Leaves me mortified Haiku Algarvian rain Falls mainly in opaque nights When moggy kills mice ……… On cold winter days When sky is icy sapphire Sun’s a jaded eye ………….. November still day Peaceful chimney smoke shimmer Fox spoors on new snow Haiku Compass pointing south, I migrate, follow the sun, But my heart looks north. ……….. Chopping winter wood The eye of a fire is blue The colour of yours …………… At twilight, I shot a raven Night fell down. Tanka The seashell I found On the people empty beach I can’t listen to If the siren’s calls my name I will drown in her embrace Tanka Ashes on the sea A showy and mean gesture From earth to earth Let me fertilize a tree, Say, a flowering almond tree. Tanka. Painted the floor green Sit in a corner and wait Quick drying paint Four hour it says on the can Where I sit it’s a life time. Senryu Epiphany me now With your enchanted smile The forever I’ll see. Tanka Lucid as the day Blinding sunlight obscured you When I could see The night had devoured you Into a cloudy haziness Tanka Mirror in the hall Don’t sarcastically laugh When I walk past On my way to the kitchen To eat another strawberry tart Tanka There was a time When the famous kept leopards As an accessory Now they keep an orphanage Of colourful children Senryu God doesn’t do email Hand delivered post only Stamps not needed. ………. Lucky butterfly It doesn’t look like a gnat And get whacked. Tanka I wake up early Think the new day’s lovelier Than the one before Sit up and recklessly laugh It’s my bonhomie you see. Tanka Woke up cheerful And I greatly worried why Till the sense ended And I was my grumpy self Happiness is frivolous Tanka (x-mass warning) Santa brought us gifts He had jolly good dram too Claus was arrested Didn’t drive his reindeers though But crashed uncle’s old Volvo Haiku (stillness) Echo of a phone Ringing in another room Rays of light and dust. Buried her yesterday My room is full of silence Dog hair on the floor Senryu Stillness is The flapping of wings In the forest Stillness is The falling of a leaf In October Senryu Morning zephyr Flapping kitchen curtains Aroma of coffee …………. A grizzled donkey Under a big carob tree Makes it pretty. …………………. In a dead rabbit’s eyes I saw the vast empty sky Unmoved and godless Senryu A smile from you Erases the cosmic loneliness Of icy stars Tanka. Talk to the net Listen to the faint echo, Of virtual droning, The unspoken loneliness, Of dreamers caught in a void. Tanka. I have traveled long Blessed by Gobi’s new moon Bit by scorpions Seen tall ships sail up said down Yet, found my way back home Tanka. I have voyaged long Sailed across seven seas Canoed great rivers Humiliated by the infamous This I did and you married Fred! Zen Icy morning Frost on window Back to bed Haiku Indian summer, Is an actor who won’t share Limelight with autumn. Senryu Mighty flood Ocean is your destiny Deadly her embrace Zen Sad sight Is a butterfly Not prepared For winter. Senryu The kitchen clock Ticks slow in December Too fast in May Air freshener Perfumed chemicals In spray cans Haiku On a sunny wall Bluebottles hum and feel safe Spiders like the dark. Rocks in the lake Are older than the blue mountain Petrified stars? Senryu When mother moon Illuminates birch trees Tears of silver fall Haiku. The ephemeral Frost roses on my window January morning ………… Forced silence… is A hushed scream of despair At a funereal --- Mourners tanned faces Paled by the open grave Beads on worried brows They sang and cried Then walked out into the sun Leaving me alone. Kashmir Cannons splinter rocks On high mountain tops Frost kills soldiers. Guilt Linked embryos Carries a nuns silver cross She bears our sin. Image Grim is poverty The rich find it colourful When seen on film. Class I shed the shackles Of the working class slums Free now to dream. Love After tantrums she laughs Cooks me a curried chicken I’m often hungry. Senryu The electric fan scornfully circulate warm air throws it in my face. …………… Today’s oppressive heat will be a winter day’s dream of a summer gone. ……………… A dazzling woman Deserves a beautiful poem After she’s forty. …………….. An ugly woman Deserves a dazzling poem Every morning. Senryu The transitory Saw and touched her yesterday Now I need a spade. , , , , , , , , , , , , , Tremulous anguish Morning after a long night No beer in fridge. ………………… Curtained windows Tremors and spilling coffee Phone ceaselessly rings. ……………. Outside my door The nice couple from AA Test their friendly smiles. Senryu The angry ocean Left its irate foam behind Haiku Auburn leaf Rustling along night streets Whispering regrets Senryu In a mythic glade Crane and vixen danced Mortal tango. Senryu Night rain fell Softly as lover’s whispers At dawn ………………. Lone streetlamp The only witness to snowflakes Falling gently ………………… Sea mist came White as a coat of silence And nirvana sighed …………………… From an ash tree Excess moonlight dripped A treasure trove Senryu On the fenland Escaped sunbeam danced Late at night Zen Spun wishes Make new day Zen A cock That crew early Loses its head Senryu When one talk Another must listen Let it not be me