a trolls poem

October 10th, 2008 by oscar

A Trolls Poem

The Smooth, flat stone I threw, skimmed the lake
seven times before sinking into the lake, where it
will be safe till the lake is drained.

Child of the black berg which was so lovely that
men with bulldozers came…and no more said;
now it is almost just another big hole.

You can call it an eye socket, watery, misty not
unlike the eye of an old troll re-reading a poem he
remembers from his youth.

senryu

October 10th, 2008 by oscar

Senryu

October’s dawn
Sorrowful as a bedroom
Reeking of booze

Senryu

Dark hotel room
Lit up by blinking neon light
Paid sex and silence

Senryu

Echo of Terns’ shrieks
Empty row-boat in a fjord
Spooked is silence

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