Best Oskar Poems

I’m watching a movie about Oskar Schindler
Who I assumed was just another profligate swindler
A hedonistic man if ever there was one
Great in business but involved...

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I suppose every husband faces this problem –
or dilemma – what to give his wife for
her anniversary. And it worsens with 
every passing year when...

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Over a thousand souls
Sheltered from the hell
By a German industrialist
Whom he saved, would tell
 
From forced labour camps bought
Under the Third Reich's nose
To work in...

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Passion buried like a stone
When Alma left Oskar alone;
Their anagram she was to unpick
Leaving him bereft,lovesick..alack
His studio & life,painted..black on black

*anagram of their Christian names...

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Strange greens
and burning reds 
in flecks of cobalt blue-
highlighting his painted world of
colour

Tribute to the art of Oskar Kokoschka...

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PYPU what ya gonna do boyz
PYPU what ya gonna do boyz
PYPU what ya gonna do boyz
don't need to see your Fruit or your Looms
don't wanna...

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http://www.poetspoetrypoems.com/entry/ppp-poet-of-the-year-2012-and-the-winner-is-jan-oskar-hansen.html...

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The Blue Plant 
In a clearing in the woods there is a blue plant
that is illuminated from the inside and shines
long after dark, but if...

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Monday Morning 
When I opened the kitchen door the fridge
had an attack of the shakes then feel into
dejected stillness which bayed in my ears.
To break...

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“What is there to say? They are my friends. I would do it again, over and over — for I hate cruelty and intolerance.” ...

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The Jester

This not my poem, just what someone said 
on TV. I merely wrote it down, a comedian 
spoke about sex, come to think of...

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Note I did not ever say this......another poet did...
His statement inspired me to pen this Poem.
Nor does he know that people of all religions and...

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She was the passion of his life
Alma,fated never to be his wife,
In a relationship of tempest & strife-
As figures drifting upon a sea,
Sadly the closest,to...

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Day-after-day the widow
"listens out for the ordinary" 
and hears only susurrant voices
until deafness overcomes her

©Kathryn McLoughlin Collins
April 21, 2012

Inspired by Jan Oskar Hansen's "To Be...

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OSKAR & ALMA
The
only
child they had-
was their game of
love...

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