John Willy Kopperud[wipperud]

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Memory from 1773 : Haiku - and history of music part VIII
Poetry 2007-10-03 (3574 hits)

Dictator : ...And Poet (Haiku)
Poetry 2007-09-22 (4388 hits)

Talkative Bird addressing one Scholar : Lost in The Woods
Poetry 2007-09-15 (2839 hits)

CRUCIFIED : ...again
Poetry 2007-09-09 (4976 hits)

My Dad : On His Deathbed
Personals 2007-08-31 (4945 hits)

Supermen? : ...Tell Me When
Poetry 2007-08-25 (4494 hits)

Football : And The Laws of Nature
Poetry 2007-08-23 (2786 hits)

(Nr7)Dylan singing : ...When The Ship Comes In (Haiku)
Poetry 2007-08-15 (4153 hits)

Submerged : And Still In Motion
Poetry 2007-08-03 (4207 hits)

Inside or Outside The Gates of Eden? : ...while visiting Kreuzberg, Berlin
Poetry 2007-07-20 (3609 hits)

Manitou : ....Is Waiting
Poetry 2007-07-15 (4948 hits)

The Lasting Problem of Evil : ...concerning Dan's poem "The Lie" and the thereupon following comments
Essay 2007-07-01 (6948 hits)

Just another Fairytale : ...in this buggers mind (Haiku)
Poetry 2007-06-25 (3684 hits)

The Inner Screen : On a Summer eve (Haiku)
Poetry 2007-06-20 (3011 hits)

Hitch - Haiku : Ancient Hippie Lore
Poetry 2007-06-12 (6311 hits)

God, Love, Hate and Evil : Commenting your Comments
Poetry 2007-06-09 (5641 hits)

One Last Glimpse : ...of Mr.C. on Telly
Poetry 2007-05-29 (3247 hits)

The Nutters made my day... : ...On the First of May
Poetry 2007-05-12 (4021 hits)

Civilization : ...and it's benefits
Essay 2007-04-29 (6202 hits)

Latter Day Baroque : ...with an appetite
Poetry 2007-03-31 (7369 hits)

(Nr.6)One Replica : ...one Captain (Beefheart)
Poetry 2007-03-20 (2915 hits)

Coming Ashore : ...she won't do that no more
Poetry 2007-02-24 (6598 hits)

(Nr.5)The Rite of Spring : ...some hot summer day
Poetry 2007-02-14 (3414 hits)

(Nr.4) The Storyteller : ...woke me up
Poetry 2007-02-07 (3331 hits)

Hovering : ...like a Dragonfly over the History of Music
Essay 2007-01-16 (10583 hits)

(Nr.3) Farinelli : Accessories
Poetry 2007-01-08 (4122 hits)

(Nr.2. ) You knew how to measure : and tighten that string
Poetry 2006-12-25 (6146 hits)

(Nr.1) The joy of noise : ...as I began
Poetry 2006-12-09 (5010 hits)

Words wearing boots : Which owl hoots?
Poetry 2006-11-14 (4612 hits)

Double norwegian standards : regarding peace
Poetry 2006-10-29 (5475 hits)

Melancholy : Jazz(added explananatory notes)
Poetry 2006-10-22 (3159 hits)

That's what you get : ...from living in the warzone
Poetry 2006-10-17 (2947 hits)

My youth in the suburb : Cultural background
Personals 2006-10-15 (3941 hits)

Calm or passionate? : Would you choose?
Personals 2006-10-11 (4270 hits)

Come All Ye Space Cadets : Pilgrimage
Poetry 2006-10-09 (3975 hits)

Sweet wonder : Trouble at the Stock Exchange
Poetry 2006-09-30 (3014 hits)

With You My Love : ...in silence
Poetry 2006-09-17 (2983 hits)

In the Belly of The Beast : Excerpt from a monster movie
Poetry 2006-09-11 (5515 hits)

Ode to Syd B. : The Gnome Revisited and revised
Poetry 2006-09-10 (3045 hits)

The Spider : ...And The Flies
Poetry 2006-09-03 (3098 hits)

Talking about politics on Agonia : What IS literature?
Essay 2006-08-29 (4913 hits)

Two shots of whisky and a beer : Bass, guitar and clarinet
Poetry 2006-08-25 (3218 hits)

The Poet : Forever Cross-eyed
Poetry 2006-08-19 (3685 hits)

Trees : fond memories
Poetry 2006-08-15 (3778 hits)

Banan Appeal : Afterthought
Poetry 2006-08-09 (3709 hits)

Secularism and the French revolution : libertê,egalitê,fraternitê - revised version
Essay 2006-07-31 (9776 hits)

The importance of laughter : Cutting them down to size
Prose 2006-07-27 (5606 hits)

Nostalgia : Or rather "heimweh".
Poetry 2006-07-21 (4136 hits)

Relentlessly cheerful : Conversational snapshot
Poetry 2006-07-16 (3421 hits)

At all times unknown : Salute to the unsearchables
Poetry 2006-07-08 (9242 hits)

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Cheers from Willy

Cheers from Willy

I'd love to have grass outside this building mowed by rabbits. Cheers from Willy

A flow

magnificently

Those wings!

Mmmm..

I certainly enjoyed-

And you do

Anca!

Thank you so much

Indeed, Raj

Thank you, Romulus

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The Chimney sweeper
Poetry by William Blake

Fragment 52
Poetry by Sappho

You've got to hide your love away
Poetry by JOHN LENNON

Jabberwocky
Poetry by lewis carroll

Berket and the Stars
Poetry by William Carlos Williams

With God on our side
Poetry by Robert Allen Zimmerman

It seems so long ago
Poetry by Leonard Cohen

Howl
Poetry by Allen Ginsberg
Alternative version

It's all over now, baby blue
Poetry by Robert Allen Zimmerman

Biography John Willy Kopperud

First years spent in various towns surrounding the Oslo fiord. Grew up in a suburb east of the city, both near to and withdrawn from my numerous peers. Significantly radicalized at the age of fourteen. Grew disappointed with the revolution and signed up for the magical mystery autumn 69. Radicalized once more. Dropped out once more. Fairly well educated during the 80's and 90's.
Poetry? Off and on, I'd say. Besides poems I have weitten both pop lyrics (plus lyrics for contemporary music)and short stories. What moves me? Imagination I guess. Imagination should not contradict everyday life (and the other way around.)
I must hold forth that good old Willie S. has quite a point when he gives fair warning regarding "The man who hath no music in himself."
Music? I have mentioned pop lyrics - to be more precise - most of these are connected to the singer/songwriter tradition. Concrete and melodious music. I have also been active in another musical area,
in the crossroad between music and noise. This is not academic sheet-music, it's rather built on improvisation and momentary exploration. Later on the product has been technically modified. Roar Borge My accomplice in the project "Fisk på Disc" available with the MP3 Album "School of fish'n'chips" through the net-distrubutor, TibProd. He has done the producing in his home studio on his own computer. The album is no. 53 in the companys catalogue and the address is : http://www.tibprod.com.
Ten tracks on the net for you to download. Be my guests!

My wife, Kristin, is responsible for some very nice poetic lyrics. For some of that material I have written
pop/singer-songwriter music.

Married to my life companion at the age of 33.One child. We live in a suburb some six kilometers from where I grew up.
Career: No big deal. Life: Good. Hardships: Yes
Happiness: Yes.