Jan Oskar Hansen Poet Blank verse

Swimming Pool

Tourist Hotel´s Pool  

The swimming pool at the hotel is empty
guests are having supper.
On limpid water two big yellow balls float
asleep after being thrown about all day.
Around the pool deep green artificial grass,
and a ditto tree that sheds no leaf.
Nature has been recreated. 
No fish will ever swim in a pool that has 
blue tiles at its bottom to pretend
to be the real sea that is a few miles away.
Except for insecticide and chlorine there is
no aroma other than the smell of nothing. 
so sterile, so insipid, so dead.
But wait, a young couple might swim here 
late at night, make love and their juices might
mingle, bring a renewal, to this oasis of sterility.
But perhaps not, I see a sign telling bathers:
“Smile you are on camera.”

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Kathryn Collins August 1, 2013 at 7:36 AM Too much bacteria waiting to get in (human and otherwise).. Jan Oskar Hansen August 6, 2013 at 3:47 AM indeed my dear, just back from Porto in Portugal, only took with me the notebook and a pen nice weather summer weather up north not too hot. my notebook is full of observations made, now I have to try make sense what I have written so I will start with the last poem the one I wrote before living in the morning.