Åsa Andersson

2015-08-27
Beautiful bird metaphor, well executed. As always a delight to read your poetry.

2015-08-26
Perfect is for dead people, a wise person told me. I think it is true. How boring if everything and everyone were perfect all the time.

2015-08-26
I agree. There is huge power in learning the difference between want and need, and also between "I cannot" and "I do not want to".

2015-08-25
Priceless. Thanks for making my day. :-)

2015-08-25
This made me laugh. Thank you Ken! :-)

2015-08-25
As always you produce a text that seems effortless and calm, yet so laden with emotion and layers.

Thank you.

2015-08-06
Exquisite.

I always look forward to one more poem from you. Thank you!

2015-08-06
And a lovely dance they did.

So true, what you write. And amazing how written words can communicate over time and distance...

2015-08-06
This made me smile.

Funny: Yesterday, on an impulse, I pulled out Good Omens from my book shelf to read - again. One of those books I keep returning to.

2015-08-01
This has a real Blade Runner feel to it. Dark, but I like it.

2015-07-31
We so often relate only to individuals that we feel we "know" somehow, whether it is an animal or a human being. Once we realize there is a Name to someone, it is much more difficult to look away.

One can only hope that Cecil the lion's fate will help to prevent other nameless lions being killed for fun...

2015-07-30
To complicate things further, it seems that nurture can change nature even as we age - epigenetics.

2015-06-15
Powerful imagery of a horrible war. Creeping ever closer these days...

2015-05-29
Very ominous and yeatsean. (Is that a word?)

Excellently crafted. I love it!

2015-05-28
Välkommen till svenska språket, Thomas!

I love learning foreign languages. Their different takes on reality overlap and expand and give me perspectives I could never have imagined på svenska alone.

2015-05-21
This is so beautiful.

I love how the setting of the sun - the arrival of darkness - to brings about illumination.

2015-05-06
Thank you! I really needed this. :)

2015-05-03
How I miss mountains! Living on flat mudlands is... flat.

2015-05-03
I like how you worked with the S sounds all through the text.

I also like the ambiguity and the opposites, and especially the final phrase.

solitude is its own
price paid

2015-05-02
Beautiful way to show how important it is to see the human being, not the labels we like to put on "the other". And also to see that We can very quickly become Them.

2015-05-02
I come back to read and re-read.

"the faint moment of quiet between each ringing reverberation"
- this is what I think you have acheived with your words.

2015-03-29
Fascinating to read his poetry in translation.
Thank you for posting!

2015-03-25
This made me laugh. Thank you for trying - you have my sympathy.

2015-03-24
It seems all our vulnerabilities surface at night... Maybe the right answer is to "tough it out", build strenght of character ya da ya ya da. No, I don't agree. If there someone there who can hold you - let them do it, is what I say. :)

2015-03-24
I've come back to read this several times. There is a quietness that I like a lot. Also how cats forever keep us in the real world, and remind us about the really important stuff - keeping cats happy.

2015-03-15
Deceptively simple with the repetitions and alliterations. I get a sense of "finally, things are moving", after being frozen in one place over winter.

Good read!

2015-03-04
Your spring poem brings hope - it is snowing outside my window right now. :)

2015-03-04
Forever is a long time. Lovely haiku.

2015-03-01
It is so easy to take things for granted, and never stop to think about what it took to put them in our hands or on our tables. It is so easy to forget that other people are ... people.

Lovely meditation on what connects us all.

2015-02-24
I love this haiku. Dense and full of imagery. Beautiful.

2015-02-24
And now you left me here with a girl from long ago.
Such a vivid description of cold and winter and the amazing joy of standing atop a mountain of snow.
Thank you!

2015-02-23
I am almost sorry you published all these gems at one time. So much to like, and so much to think about, and so much to come back to and read again.

What they all have in common is how you say so much in a few words. I love it.

2015-02-23
Nice twist on the Jante law.

2015-02-22
This is beautiful!

2015-02-22
I think you really convey how death can be both expected and surprising at the same time. We do know it is coming for everyone, and yet... And that empty space someone leaves behind. And still the world moves on.

I liked this line best: People who may swim have been known to drown.

2015-02-21
I agree. I wonder if she could ever imagine how many lives she would touch...

2015-02-21
This one made me laugh out loud.
Thank you!

2015-02-19
I've come back to read this text several times, to try to pinpoint why I like it so much, until I realized it is the

innocence and sincerity

It is really good to be unabashedly hopeful and optimistic once in a while. Much more helpful than tired old cynisism.

2015-02-19
You forgot to mention "Godfather". (My family will come after you!)

I really like this one. The juxtaposition of hoodie/poet, homie/musician, shav/great grandfather is very efficient. Also, in just the fact that the "I"-stanzas contain more words than the "hoodie's", you show how age and experience really can add more depth and layers to a person.

And the ending is slam-dunk.

Have a nice day. Mwhahahahaha.

2015-02-17
I get the impression that your charming sisters were older than you... The final stanza is unexpected, but just perfect.

2015-02-17
Lovely trip to the outer parts of our solar system. I am particularly impressed with the super-duper space suit.

Since I am on a tight budget, maybe I will have to settle with a visit to Nebraska, however.

2015-02-17
"Behind my sunglasses I can be myself."
Sensitivity is all too often interpreted as weakness, but I think it is a strength.

2015-02-16
LOL! Hope the evaluation went well, obviously nothing wrong with the narrator's pshyche.

2015-02-15
Despite the qwandary, the read is not wquard at all. I found it was a delight.

2015-02-15
A beautiful, sensual poem. I enjoyed it very much.

2015-02-05
It sounds easy, but a lot of people are unable to do this - to quiet down, let their own ego take a back seat and actually listen to another person.

I always appreciate your writing.

2015-02-03
Opium for the masses.

2014-10-02
I like this more than I can express.

It can be a big step to allow for the possibility that the good someone else sees in us really is there. It is all about faith and trust.

2014-10-01
Good one! I like. :)

2014-09-30
It is a warning worth screaming from the roof tops. Scary times.
"Parts of my DNA, went into ovens" - such a strong image it gives me chills along my spine.