My Best Friend Poems

Faulty memory

In the night, the brain had been busy changing my mind. 
I have heard many stories in my lifetime, but they are 
not forgotten
in...

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2025.3.17

How true was it?
"A friend in need is a friend indeed"
T and I were friends for half a century.
Our friendship fell out three times over...

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There is a wind blowing around me, 
and something from the sea is draining my energy
It is dragging me towards the battered shore
And I have...

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My dear beloved me,
Sorry for being ignorant,
For caring less and less,
hurting you unnecessarily.
Will you forgive me?
For the crime I did?
Will you allow me?
To love you...

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You live in my heart,
Always and forever,
You have pierced it with your kindness’s arrows,
Where my mind is your dart.

You are in my mind,
I have never...

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My world is slowly falling apart
I know that there’s only one person
Who’s caused this change to happen

You’ll start sarcastically joking 
With me on the phone
I’ll...

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You probably feel like the world is against you. 
This letter is for that young woman from fifty years ago. 
She was eighteen years old;...

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Well, there is someone for me now-
I thought as I bought him home from the pet-shop,
My boy had left me last week,
Now I have him...

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Song of Eve

Oh! This shutters of tears flowing
Listen to my unconsolable song
When everything begin to wither
And every guile in me begin to batter 
With life...

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I am looking at the perils of retirement. 
Retirement will not be the end of the road.

The road now leads to a new beginning. 
A...

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If you love someone, set them free...
Whether children leaving the nest or friendships that last across continents... Love is forever... Even when we're apart. 

We...

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Trees, cars and Elon Musk 

The branches of trees on the avenue
 Was stretching upward this morning
To be a decorative tree is not easy
Standing still...

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Jordholmen’s public bath
Back in the days of yore, few people had a shower unit they might have had bathtub that was used once a week...

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Stretch forth thy hand and touch the palm
Of my hand, write a verse on it and memorize it
Morning feels like lead pressing upon my head...

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A Day of Reckoning


Forenoon, it had been raining during the night
the wizened winter landscape was now green
and amongst olive trees long-legged sheep grazed;
their pastor and,...

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