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Love, jokes and wine : Oslo evening
Poetry 2008-02-04 (829 hits)

Heeped : ...At The Hargates of Aynd
Poetry 2008-01-10 (632 hits)

365 : ...And What Do We Know?
Poetry 2007-12-31 (534 hits)

Enemies : On The Graveyard
Poetry 2007-12-26 (575 hits)

The Grimpels of Thyne : Hell in The Bushes
Poetry 2007-12-13 (522 hits)

Flute Player In A Boat : Relief At The Subway Station
Poetry 2007-12-03 (523 hits)

Moody Men : Prefer The Past To The Future
Poetry 2007-11-09 (554 hits)

Gepettos Legion : Waiting For The Truck
Poetry 2007-10-18 (556 hits)

Zeroes : ...what are they up to?
Poetry 2007-10-16 (703 hits)

Memory from 1773 : Haiku - and history of music part VIII
Poetry 2007-10-03 (365 hits)

Dictator : ...And Poet (Haiku)
Poetry 2007-09-22 (375 hits)

Talkative Bird addressing one Scholar : Lost in The Woods
Poetry 2007-09-15 (361 hits)

CRUCIFIED : ...again
Poetry 2007-09-09 (522 hits)

Supermen? : ...Tell Me When
Poetry 2007-08-25 (582 hits)

Football : And The Laws of Nature
Poetry 2007-08-23 (371 hits)

(Nr7)Dylan singing : ...When The Ship Comes In (Haiku)
Poetry 2007-08-15 (634 hits)

Submerged : And Still In Motion
Poetry 2007-08-03 (732 hits)

Inside or Outside The Gates of Eden? : ...while visiting Kreuzberg, Berlin
Poetry 2007-07-20 (747 hits)

Manitou : ....Is Waiting
Poetry 2007-07-15 (740 hits)

Just another Fairytale : ...in this buggers mind (Haiku)
Poetry 2007-06-25 (665 hits)

The Inner Screen : On a Summer eve (Haiku)
Poetry 2007-06-20 (657 hits)

Hitch - Haiku : Ancient Hippie Lore
Poetry 2007-06-12 (781 hits)

God, Love, Hate and Evil : Commenting your Comments
Poetry 2007-06-09 (858 hits)

One Last Glimpse : ...of Mr.C. on Telly
Poetry 2007-05-29 (619 hits)

The Nutters made my day... : ...On the First of May
Poetry 2007-05-12 (921 hits)

Latter Day Baroque : ...with an appetite
Poetry 2007-03-31 (3529 hits)

(Nr.6)One Replica : ...one Captain (Beefheart)
Poetry 2007-03-20 (792 hits)

Coming Ashore : ...she won't do that no more
Poetry 2007-02-24 (1575 hits)

(Nr.5)The Rite of Spring : ...some hot summer day
Poetry 2007-02-14 (817 hits)

(Nr.4) The Storyteller : ...woke me up
Poetry 2007-02-07 (1039 hits)

(Nr.3) Farinelli : Accessories
Poetry 2007-01-08 (1039 hits)

(Nr.2. ) You knew how to measure : and tighten that string
Poetry 2006-12-25 (1991 hits)

(Nr.1) The joy of noise : ...as I began
Poetry 2006-12-09 (1131 hits)

Words wearing boots : Which owl hoots?
Poetry 2006-11-14 (884 hits)

Double norwegian standards : regarding peace
Poetry 2006-10-29 (1098 hits)

Melancholy : Jazz(added explananatory notes)
Poetry 2006-10-22 (959 hits)

That's what you get : ...from living in the warzone
Poetry 2006-10-17 (847 hits)

Come All Ye Space Cadets : Pilgrimage
Poetry 2006-10-09 (924 hits)

Sweet wonder : Trouble at the Stock Exchange
Poetry 2006-09-30 (913 hits)

With You My Love : ...in silence
Poetry 2006-09-17 (835 hits)

In the Belly of The Beast : Excerpt from a monster movie
Poetry 2006-09-11 (1902 hits)

Ode to Syd B. : The Gnome Revisited and revised
Poetry 2006-09-10 (984 hits)

The Spider : ...And The Flies
Poetry 2006-09-03 (1001 hits)

Two shots of whisky and a beer : Bass, guitar and clarinet
Poetry 2006-08-25 (1130 hits)

The Poet : Forever Cross-eyed
Poetry 2006-08-19 (1149 hits)

Trees : fond memories
Poetry 2006-08-15 (1159 hits)

Banan Appeal : Afterthought
Poetry 2006-08-09 (1177 hits)

Nostalgia : Or rather "heimweh".
Poetry 2006-07-21 (1161 hits)

Relentlessly cheerful : Conversational snapshot
Poetry 2006-07-16 (1210 hits)

At all times unknown : Salute to the unsearchables
Poetry 2006-07-08 (2606 hits)

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Through The Looking-glass!

Intriguing really, but...

A well-composed...

Thank you very much...

Simple and striking... ()

The explanation of a title and three lines

As a matter of circumstance... ()

That's an interesting approach!

Flyerers have to get an income too...

This poem describes...

=pposites...

I correct myself...

When yo're unable to distuinguish between dream and reality... ()

A good elaboration on love...

This is difficult to take in...

In the words of a norwegian song title...

Expressive poem worth reading....

The letter format works for me as a reader...

And there...

Maria-Mihaela, I do agree!

Fine and intersting work. though I find some grammaticl flaws...

I know, and that....

I do think I may approve this one...

I do think I may approve this one...

Utterly unneccesary...

Sea, sunrise, heaven...

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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 :

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.