Easy Rider from the Far North

By Arnstein Vada

The book is about a man traveling around in Europe and the middle-east while he makes poems and sinks into his own thoughts.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse UK
• Release date: Apr 30, 2009
• ISBN: 9781467004732

Arnstein Vada

Arnstein Vada lives in Gildeskl, Norway, which lies north of the Arctic Sircle . He has published poems in several newspapers and peridicals, and is twice published in the international poetry perodical Ice-Floe. He has been a social welfare field officer, a director of social services, and now works with the mentally disabled."

Book preview

ARNSTEIN THE POET 

alone

by the tarn

in the middle

of emptiness

against the dust

a bit far-off

a little protest

the poetry

is the Day of judgement

to itself

only the

empty words behind

like withered flowers

on a forgotten grave

THE MATE 

I see a boat

out there

the sea is

enormous and heavy

in a sudden movement

the boat rushes away

I have sand in my mouth

cracks in my voice

waves with a white cloth

towards the mate

with the intense green eyes

I am on my feet

in my mouth I have

an silvershining fish-hook

cast by an old shilling

UNFAIRNESS 

dear God

let me tolerate

daily unfairness

and honour

mister this

and mister

that so

I keep my job

and may

live for

a long time

in this land

PROTEST

a silent protest

rose in defiance

against injustice

before it knocked

its brain against

the wall of time

and sailed away

on the river

of neutrality

towards the sea

of indifference

THE BLACK AVENGER 

when bagpipes

are tuning

over valleys and uplands

and the Death Song

by McKindle sounds

it`s the justice

who asked for a dance

Kings and presidents

and reactionary parties

shall loose their gloss

and