Kategoriarkiv: hard times

Windy sunny spring

It’s windy, it’s sunny out there,all while I slowly recover indoors.Weak, I thought I had a burn-outand hit the floor alone in the night.I could have died, but I didn’t know.And now I just sit here and look out.The April … Fortsätt läsa

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Old and battered

  I’m so old and battered in my soul and body by people and events and sicknesses, never a day without pains, some days more than unbearable, I see only two ways to go to become free and find joy, … Fortsätt läsa

Publicerat i alienation, arduous times, armed loneliness, become old, beliefs, changes, coping skills, courage, create life, darkness, fears, hard times, illness, inspiring songs, life crises, Living with chronic pains, old age, poems, poems by vonnely, Poetry, reading life, reality, sadness, sickness, words, writing | Märkt , , , , , , | 2 kommentarer

Entrance 34 Oncology Clinic (I’ve seen love)

                I’ve seen love I’ve seen love in real life in the lobby of the Oncology Clinic at the University Hospital nearby where I live, a man in his early 80s sitting by … 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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Cancer and Corona (Swedish view)

                You lose your hair getting your cancer treated you age ten years your bowels do not work your skin fails and your nails may fall off you wake up with nausea and … 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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”Enough is enough”

  Mostly I met people at treatment days, I was cared for. After the surgery there were a change. Last the nurse showed me to an empty narrow room with 3 black chairs, like in a minor hairdresser salon. I … Fortsätt läsa

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Rescue me!

  In Africa and US people put a trust in God. In Sweden we put our faith in healthy food and state-run welfare funded by taxes. We believe people are rational and act sensibly. We all have to live captured … Fortsätt läsa

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January, returning light

                  I woke up now, one of the first days in the light-returning January. But it felt dull gloomy autumn. It was the day after a far long way travel to finally … 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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Standing at a bus stop a gloomy grey day in December

  I’m standing just after noon at a bus stop outside a distant Supermarket. It’s Sunday the second of Advent and this day must be the most humid and gloomiest day ever of this month, if not the gloomiest day … Fortsätt läsa

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Modest life (Gråväderstider)

  Gloomy moods Gloomy tiring times and every day pass by unlived Weight off sickness Pandemic Country Welfare system kneels, robbed by profit villains ”Still I will rise” Women lying ward-tied, armed with PICC lines Like heroines they endure cures … Fortsätt läsa

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