Swedish Microverse
by Iréne Carlsson
The storm has calmed
the lights continue
to flutter
Stormen har lagt sig
ljusen fortsätter
att fladdra
Every half hour
in the silent night
the neighbour’s cuckoo clock
Hel och halvtimme
i den tysta natten
grannens gökur
A country road
beneath a starry sky
a radio tower twinkles
Landsväg om natten
under stjärnklar himmel
blinkar en telemast
Have to hug you
he cries - bends down
to hug my dog
Måste få krama dig
ropar han - böjer sig ned
och kramar min hund
All four poems are reprinted from the anthology Snowdrops avaiable at
bokverket.com .
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Iréne Carlsson is a member of The Swedish Haiku Society . Her poems have appeared on the society’s website Haikuverkstaden, in the society’s bilingual anthology Snödroppar/Snowdrops, as well as in the society’s journal Tidskriften Haiku. Iréne’s work can also be found at Fri Haiku. After several years abroad she now lives in the Stockholm area and in a country house in southern Sweden.