lørdag 12. mars 2011

Øystein Orten: POEMS IN ENGLISH

this is a different country
  
this is a different country

here is no summer
and no winter

here are no steel guitars
or broad brimmed limousines
under hot sun

only cold sea
grey hills and stubborn heather

here the streamers of the rainbow are not reflected
in thousand windows along the green alleys

here no trains are pursuing
the next capital in a wild chase

no high voltage cathedrals
reach their arms towards the sky

this is a different country

this is a different country




(dette er eit anna land from havflammen 1995 translated into english by Margrete Trovåg)


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