Meet the poet Carina Karlsson

I’ll like to share Carina Karlsson’s poetry today. Carina was born in 1966 in Åland islands, in Finland. She still lives there together with her husband and 15-year old daughter. Her first book Lisbeta, Per Skarps hustru, was published in 1996, but she has written poems since I was a child. She is writing her first novel, "Vem kan segla." She likes to work together with other artists, painters and photographers in my projects and several of her poems have been set to music.

She has also seen me from within

She has also seen me from within,

I was her veined vault of heaven,

a laughing earthquake

and a nameless concern

when  bubbles of silver rapidly shot by

I explained everything I saw,

she didn´t understand a single word

Now I believe in providence of God

and she believes in everything

the flowers tell her.

The chestnut tree is standing

The chestnut tree is standing

at the gate

Dropping its leaves

over a little girl

She is waiting for the school bus,

for the autumn holidays,

to be grown up

She carries her sorrows

carefully stowed

In her schoolbag,

all those desperate, vain wishes

for mercy

in a particular order

The chestnut tree is dropping its leaves,

now the school bus arrives.

You can cut a diamond

You can cut a diamond

out of all my bad sides,

mount me in a ring

This darkness

you can´t induce,

I assure myself

over and over again:

I am too unimportant,

too marginal to be changed.

These poems from book Svarta klasar.

Bibliography

Lisbeta, Per Skarp wife ( 1996 , poem, story)
Blue remotely close ( 2000 , poem suite with akvarellist Kjell Ekström)
Kase ( 2002, poetry)
Years lies in droves ( 2002 , poems, together with graphic artist Mari Stefan Daughter)
The stars have stuck a hole in the sky ( 2005 , reflections and stories in the sample)
Black clusters ( 2006 , poetry)

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