Wedding Poem

I was Running

Running as fast as I could

In the wrong 

direction

When a hand reached out

on a roof in front of a 

Swimming Pool

In New York City

It was a dead end

A good dead end

My heart skipped a beat

Before it ended up on a Tribeca

balcony with wine,

music, Laughter

and the feeling 

of this is so right

This is so right

2 weeks

and my belongings

became your belongings

4 months 

and my body became 

your body

and one more

little man

and then another 

little man

An apartment

turned into a house

A house at the Beach

and then

here we are

Together

Us Two

Us Four

and all of You

to Celebrate

Us Two

In Love

So I live and so I dream

So I live and so I dream

So I hear and so I think

Rich I am 

Imagine

Rich of Life

Imagine

with the Golden Light

and the waves flushing 

up the sand while I

Sink into my womb chair 

or my plateau bed

The golden light 

 imagine

that I am rich

Rich of life

Rich of gift

The one who can give

Give a dream of life

Golden with the sound of

the unknown

An ocean of secrets

to share

So I live and so I dream

So I hear and so I think

Ahahahahaha

Welcome home

ahahahahahah

Welcome home

Don´t run

just walk

silently 

up the stairs

and I will

welcome you home

Don´t stare 

don´t smile 

not yet

first I need to 

frighten you a little

Wait for my scream

then wait for my laughter

I can´t help but

play this game

Welcome home

ahahahahaha

I knew you would stay

I knew we could

 laugh ourselves

into the future

Welcome home

ahahahahahaha

- Kristin Hjellegjerde

I don´t know how

I don´t know how to stop the time
while I turn the pancake
change a diaper,
run the stairs, brush through the paper
pay the contractor, talk to the gardner
call the plumber that never shows
play games, hide and seek
Laugh a bit, cry a bit,
See lots of Art, feel the Art
Just be, be at many places at one time
I can´t miss out on the good times, bad times
try to be a good friend, mother, lover
just how can I sit down and just watch
the ocean for a few minutes,
When I don´t know how to stop the time?

Failing to Fall

Ten times trying
Ten times failing
the hours leaving
while urgently
grabing for the hours
I could sink
sink into an endlessness
of opportunities
bring me to dreams
I could not come up
with, not without
falling
falling
endlessly into a world
of no control

Words

Words

Creep up on me

linger on my earlobes

touches my tongue

tickle my fingers

but they don´t shoot out

like shining stars

on paper

They stay 

put on top of my head

crying for me

to find a use 

to bleed

to make a mark