Kategoriarkiv: joy

Promising crocuses

Publicerat den 23 mars, 2021 av vonnely

I go out on a Monday in March and I see something green pop out of the soil in the flowerbed outside the front door. I go out on a Tuesday and I can then see, ”yes, that green is … Fortsätt läsa →

Publicerat i changes, courage, create life, dreaming, healing, hope, joy, poem in English and Swedish, poems, poems by vonnely, Poetry, promises, springtime, vår, vårvinter | Märkt coping life, crocus, dreams, early spring, promises, promising crocuses, spring flowers, spring sun, vårlöften | Lämna en kommentar

Take a chance on me

Publicerat den 12 november, 2020 av vonnely

Translated into English below De hårda vindarna har lagt sig. Regnbyarna har dragit sig tillbaka. Dunkel dager, gråmulen himmel och klart kyligare. Jag står vid middagstid utanför sjukhuset och väntar på en taxi hem. Den är … Fortsätt läsa →

Publicerat i Autumn poems, diseases, gloom, hope, inspiring music, inspiring songs, joy, living with sickness, moods, poem in English and Swedish, poem in Swedish translated to English, poems, poems by vonnely, Poetry, trust | Märkt confidence, coping life, create life, dreams, frame of mind, hope, living with illness, mood | Lämna en kommentar

I have lost my long-sightedness

Publicerat den 9 oktober, 2020 av vonnely

I have lost my long-sightedness outdoors. Trees and streets and buildings and people seems like dissolved in a slightly blurry haze. The diabetes nurse does not recognize the symptom, the oncologist nurse does not recognize the … Fortsätt läsa →

Publicerat i create life, desirers, gloom, joy, life crises, loneliness, longing, loss, lost, melancholy, poem in English and Swedish, poems, poems by vonnely, Poetry, reality, relationships, repression and borders, troubled life, trust, walk of life, walls | Märkt feel joy, känna glädje, kortsynt, loneliness, long perspectives, loss, lost love, perspectives, perspektiv, regain hope, repression, shortsighted, visions | Lämna en kommentar

Bald Beauty in Autumn

Publicerat den 19 september, 2020 av vonnely

What a beauty I have become, bald like trees in late autumn!! Winter come! Snow, cover me! What is precious about my life one sometimes asks in despair: one life that will … Fortsätt läsa →

Publicerat i autumn, Autumn poem, create life, diseases, gloom, joy, living with sickness, poem in English and Swedish, poem in English to Swedish, poems, poems by vonnely, Poetry, sickness, trust | Märkt Autumn poem, baldness, cancer treatment, confidence, convalescent, coping life, encouraged, keeping the faith, recover from cancer, sickness, sjukdomstid, trust | Lämna en kommentar

Rain in May and potting soil

Publicerat den 16 maj, 2020 av vonnely

(In English below) Jag tänkte gå ut och köpa något (Microlax, toalettpapper och blomjord) Men det regnar idag (också), bra för grönskan och jag kan vänta med att gå ut nån dag till, det kan inte regna för evigt heller! … Fortsätt läsa →

Publicerat i aging, cultures, inspiring music, joy, morality, old age, poem in English and Swedish, poem in Swedish translated to English, poems, poems by vonnely, Poetry, remembering | Märkt entertainment, loss, retirement homes, view on elderly, youth music old days | Lämna en kommentar

Joy?

Publicerat den 21 april, 2020 av vonnely

Quoting the Swedish writer Theodor Kallifatides on Twitter 13 april ”Jag önskar att jag någon gång i livet fick gå ut ur huset med samma entusiasm, glädje och förväntan som min dotters två mopsar.” In translation: ”I wish that at … Fortsätt läsa →

Publicerat i joy, loneliness, melancholy, Poetry, Swedish "culture", Swedish artists | Märkt joy, quoting Kallifatides, Theodor Kallifatides | Lämna en kommentar