Kategoriarkiv: fragility

Ashes, (Poetry crumbs 2)

I What does a heart sing about when the fire of love dreams has burned down and died? Does it sing at all? Are the days like ash just gray with no goal and direction? The ashes still warm lacks … Fortsätt läsa

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I take a walk every day

Translated from Swedish, the Swedish text below.   I take a short walk every day to regain my strength in body and head. It is as it use to be, everyone has someone but I have no one at all … Fortsätt läsa

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En ensam plats blir ensammare

This post is only in Swedish as it is about a newly published book which is only available in Swedish (so far) and the hullabaloo a scandlous review in a tabloid caused on many Swedish culture pages.   I år … Fortsätt läsa

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Sol och vår (Love-seeking May)

  It is May, sun and rain alternating, hot and cold days. The birches stand in their youthful, sweetest and most beautiful greenery. Fruit trees bloom and spread their seeds in the wind. You start the day with an allergy … Fortsätt läsa

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Breast cancer as a personal experience (II)

In English below       ; Jag blev aldrig rädd när jag diagnostiserades med cancer. Jag fick aldrig en kris. Jag upplevde aldrig att min kropp svek mig. Det kändes aldrig som att falla genom ett stort svart hål, … Fortsätt läsa

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Breast cancer as a personal experience (I)

          Ingress So kindly pestering, again and again I’m asked to stay in the care plan. I’m asked to act against my will for my own good. It’s simply disgusting. I I knocked on a door … Fortsätt läsa

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Cut up, slow down (1)

          I am angry and not sad, treated like a piece of cheese,got the moldy edges cut off to be repackaged but luckilytoo old to be placed at a sales counter again: Yes ”lucky” to be … Fortsätt läsa

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After a single mastectomy

          Maybe I could join up as an Amazon, learn to shootwith a bow and arrow in a female warrior collective. Maybe I could become a salamander to see my lostbody part grow out again. Maybe … Fortsätt läsa

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Now it will be Spring

In English below the Swedish verses   Mosade och tillplattade ligger våra drömmar framför våra fötter, de duger inte ens att ha på vegomackan, än mindre att kompostera. Smältvatten porlar ned i gatubrunnarna och vinterns grusande drivor snubblar under våra … Fortsätt läsa

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Pandemic winter

Pandemisk vinter Ett tigande hyreshus Och långt mellan oss Pandemic winter Silent apartment building And far between us Pulsar genom snön, håller avståndet i kön försjunken i drömmar I trudge through the snow I keep my distance in the queue … Fortsätt läsa

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January snow, heavy boots (Old age 3)

  Chilly but giving a lot of light, the snow creaking under the soles of my heavy boots. Don’t we all welcome the returning light in January, multiplied in the reflecting snow drifts? Yes, we do, old as well as … Fortsätt läsa

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Lost libido, lost lovers

One, I met one time but I never got to know him. One I got to know but I never met him, not even one time. (Oh, in my youth age, there were some in real: and I regret there … Fortsätt läsa

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Wounded, we will walk scarred from this time

      And snow finally came over here with the new year. Cars in dangerous driving in storms and snowdrifts. The weather bureau stated repeated warnings. And southward at my locality, slippery icy walkways and most like me stay … Fortsätt läsa

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Out of the gloom, a New Year’s greeting for 2021

  A New Year’s greeting (written on December 30th, but never sent in full). Hi there my friend! I will break my last days silence only to send you a New Year’s greeting! But sorry to say, I’m still a … Fortsätt läsa

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The piano

          My mother bought a piano with many years of payments, hoping it would prevent her youngest daughter to leave her alone and unsupported. As a child cannot be hindered from growing up and start its … Fortsätt läsa

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On my mind today

  No nausea today. Well, almost nothing and just a little pain in my legs and head, but just a little. So I’m doing relatively well. Still some embarrassing dysfunctions in my bowels, yes. But reaching old age – over … Fortsätt läsa

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A soldier of love

  I have a lover man in my stable: what to do with a domestic who does not want to be free? I have nothing at all to offer him as my heart and body are drier than all the … Fortsätt läsa

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No poems tells about cancer (En bröstcancer tiger stilla)

In English below   En bröstcancer tiger stilla, men bieffekterna av alla mediciner mot den som man får gör det inte, de tiger inte stilla men gör dig illa. Gör dig så sjuk! Medan cancern fortfarande tiger, tiger mörkt! Men … Fortsätt läsa

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August is coming

  The summer is almost gone, August comes this weekend. It’s the last summer month in the Scandinavian landscape. It will get dark earlier now and deeper with pitch black and chilly nights while the days still will be nicely … Fortsätt läsa

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Numb!

Magnificently shot out of life’s catapult in the air, born free and landed hard, where were you then? Between battles, when loneliness and emptiness and my smallness spreads, where are you then? Those weary breaks between struggles kill more than … Fortsätt läsa

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As the world appears (barber wire haiku)

As the world appears Why bother picking flowers? And why fall in love? Barbed wire Flower The power of tyranny Hong Kong Orchid Tree Trump and Xi Jinping like monsters in ancient myths kills our single lives What to dream … Fortsätt läsa

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Midsummer Dreams in the freezer

        Lonely men All these lonely men, where do they all come from? And to what will they go with all their dreams, kept strictly secret in their hearts, and at their backs and behind harsh smiles? … Fortsätt läsa

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Harsh wind, some reflections

The rain ended and the summer heat came but the harsh wind has stayed. And it is hard-bitten merciless. My balcony plants looks like terrified puppies. My mother heart aches for little ones.       I’m worn out from … Fortsätt läsa

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Neither for nor against (The Swedish approach)

In English below I Jag är inte med dig, jag är inte mot dig jag är mittemellan dig och alla, intryckt nedtryckt under din höjda arm, näsan begravd i din armhåla, du stinker: byt deodorant! Eller: håll avståndet. II Sluta … Fortsätt läsa

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You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet!

                  Fy fan för äldreboenden, ättestupa och hurtig underhållning med Evert Taube! Jag skulle hellre äta råttgift än att bo där! Den sen decennier bortgångne och mytologiserade trubaduren Taube är sannerligen ingen … Fortsätt läsa

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Aging female body (part I and II)

He made me hate my aging body, as mercilessly mirrored when I dress in the hall looking at these undeniably saggy boobs and right before, in the bathroom caring for what’s secretly hidden ”down there” my flaccid pussy prickly dry … Fortsätt läsa

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Moses Tegnell med sin stafettpinne leder svenska folket genom Corona-pestens ökenlandskap

Moses Tegnell with his baton leads the Swedish people through the desert landscape of the Corona plague De rör sig ur dunkla dis, de sågs aldrig komma I fängelser utan dörrar, tror vi att vi ska överleva… De dirigerar förlusterna … Fortsätt läsa

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One hot day in April I went shopping…

            It’s bloody hot today! It’s only April, but still a summer heat! Well, I expected it to be hot when I dressed to go out to shop – but like a normal spring heat! … Fortsätt läsa

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Medelklassens hastiga uppvaknande (What is ”normal” and to whom?)

Read this post in English here below Jag läser om morgonen en krönika i en morgontidning om att vi aldrig ”efter detta” (pandemin!) kan gå tillbaka till det ”normala”. Det vill säga förgifta jorden. Äga förmågan att uppleva vad som … Fortsätt läsa

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