Short Norwegian Poems

to norwegian blue
another more solid version
of me and you
another varicose vision
of wood and glue...

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norwegian feline
with woolly insulation
winter devotee



AP: Honorable Mention 2025

Posted on April 19, 2025...

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World News 

Obama won the election 
With great elation 
Yet the headlines in 
Norwegian newspapers were 
About cheese importation...

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The norwegian 'scream' Edvard Munch
liked oneliners with a punch
to his love Tula Larsen did send
'art is my greatest love' I can only be your friend...

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Norwegian Tanka 

This day had sunlight 
Light shone through small windows
My office was a stable
The beast of burdens´ air reminds me 
That my work is not yet done....

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LONELINESS

Loneliness is like cold Norwegian ice, so pure it hurts in a numbness like fire.
But loneliness is better than silly little English girls messing one around....

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Norwegian elkhounds, proud and bold,  
With curly tails that wag like gold,  
In forests deep, they roam and play,  
Hunters of night, they stalk their prey,  
In every heart, their love unfolds....

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             lump 
                 lump
             punch
                 punch
              bamb

             ShhlAp

              I sAid
          i'm wit thuh
            black girl...

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 For Sale
~~~~~

Australian botanical cycad
Dark evergreen foliage 
Grows huge
Includes large modern Norwegian oval pot

Quick reluctant sale

Tenacious unique variety 
Wonderful xerophyte young Zamia 


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When a Norwegian cow passes gas
They want to tax the gas from its ‘ass’
A cow passes 4 tonnes of methane each year
Just imagine the stink from its rear!!!!

Thanks for the inspiration Anne Lise xxx

Jan Allison 
31st March 2016...

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A Starry Summer's Night

An
observed
perception
of time is seen
from a hotel room
window in front of a
stony beach and linden trees
on a calm starry summer night
where starlight reflects off the waters
of a secluded Norwegian fjord....

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She was an Italian liner,
Whose path crossed
Unfavorably with a 
Norwegian ship
Out at sea....

She went down that day
All aboard were sad
I just hope that Joe's wife
Was not Andrea by name,
Cause it was the Andrea Doria
Whose fate played to her fame....

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fresh wind and sunshine

                              Norwegian National Day

                                  the flag to the top

                             












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5-7-5
Sun :) - A-L Andresen :)
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The strangest things happen
in the Northern hemisphere
dancing dervishes
become the norm
in the mid Norwegian Sun,
mercator projected
A bird in flight
caught by the car lights,
travelling incognito.
Recess to be free,
there's a longing ;
in the upper atmosphere
see the lodestar disappear....

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Cuddly Animals

Little small cuddly animals all full 
of colourful coats and lots of fur. 
Every type is here from little mice 
to black Norwegian goth guinea pigs 
to chocolate drop pussy cats 
that love to be stroked. 
All animals are there to be loved 
with lots of care in nice warm homes....

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I don’t know,
Whether I am French or American,
I just doubt,
I am a poet or a fisherman,
Cause, now I love you as ever.

I don’t know,
Whether I am Texan, or Norwegian,
I just doubt
Whether I am dead or alive,
Cause, now I love you as ever.

I don’t know,
whether I am a book, or a glass,
I just doubt,
I understood ma and pa,
Cause now I love you as ever....

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When I did the
hug-a-tree today,
I could feel my
breathing in my fingers
as the air
in my body moved my blood.

That Norwegian professor,
when I was 25,
told me that would happen.
One body, he told me,
like a fluid-filled bag,
like a decorative icing
squeezer.

Several times today
I could feel time stop
and I could feel the
gap between my fingers
tremble....

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                         I`m not a skilled poet
                         I`m not good at writing in rhyme
                         If I write rhymes in Norwegian
                         It fit so perfectly
                         When I have to translate it to English
                         All the rhymes are gone



A-L  Andresen :)
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the end of the line

Once upon a time, Norway was a shipping nation
thousand of people employed in this endeavor
because she was a low-paid country and could
haul, mostly American cargo around the world
Alas, oil along her coast, was found, no longer
poo, wages rose that was no good

Other nations, running lower wages, took over
and the Norwegian shipping culture 
was history

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didga see da nous?
yup! all dose cars in da ditch?
dose fancy cars hey!
dattel teech 'im, eh? betcha
can uh pop dey put dose chains
on dem weels now, yup!


...for Deb's contest!
.....dialect is "Snoose"....of Norwegian and Swedish Ancestry,
most likely first heard near the Iron-Range towns
 off Lake- Superior in the 19th. century.......

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Armies
A general so proud
Now he is burned to crisp
And we are told by a cowardly press to rejoice.
Revenge!
Don’t look at NATO only a naïve Norwegian can
Believe in this useless rust machine.
What we need is a new army
Helping the French to extract more oil from
Central Africa.
Who is the enemy or not depends?
On how effective the propaganda is, but 
As the rule is: Generals are all stupid....

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Our gorgeous May 17th
                          Decorate the birch trees with Norwegian flags
                                         Norway's national day


                                      The nation's day of celebration
                              All dress with handmade national costumes
                                     Hooray for our country in freedom








  A-L  Andresen :)
   16.05.2013...

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In a Norwegian slumber they came to take us away.
They used shovels and torches.
But mostly arms and strong fingers.
We were the final ones out of the terminal.

The cockroaches sing with us now.
We live in utter parlance.
Askance, downward goes our drives.

But this is not about us, no-no-not us.
We call our song the soul’s vertebrate.
And we refer to the question of a soul as an angel with its hand over its mouth....

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The Norwegian club

We went there last night
it was set in a wine bar and the prize,15euro each, 
I refused to pay that much.
The bar was almost empty but for a group
of Norwegians who sat whispering in a corner
And there was no one to welcome us.
I was donating some books to the club
 left some of them on a table.
No one stirred.
I thought the scene was surreal.
We left and had a meal at a Portuguese
restaurant.
I suppose the books were thrown away
after closing time....

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