Johannes S. H. Bjerg



1)

what
I didn’t

think
about

(today)

was
the snow

on 
the Anatolian
Plateau



most
of it

untouched

by
a pianist’s

hands


2)

we
have

no
mountains

but we
sing about

when
we 
had some

in another
country

and 
how hard

it was
to climb
them


3)

you

weigh
light

in
your right

hand



you

weigh
light

in
your left

hand



you

weigh
light

and
let
it

rest
on
your
palms



then
you

crack
open

an apple

and let
the sparrows

out


4)

as
close

as
we get

to
forever

on
two legs


5)

after
the blackbird

your
future

is
a laundry
basket


6)

by
coin
cidence 

you
come

to 
think

of
it

as
an 
eye


7)

but
what
‘s
left

by
the wind

too

would
make
up

a decent
life

Johannes S. H. Bjerg : Born 1957. Writer and artist. Lives in a village out of touch with what the world talks about.

Blogs:
main site: Megaga
2 tongues / 2 tunger bilingual haikai
Parallels and stuff, bilingual parallel haiku(-like)
the odd poem, (non-haiku poetry)
Instigator and co-editor of “Bones - a journal for contemporary haiku” (www.bonesjournal.com).

Recent Books:
season words-drawritings and twigpoems both published by Paperview Books, 2022, August - a poem in 6 parts, Half Moon Press, 2022, and PS 21 - Paired Sentences, 2022.

 
 

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