Simplicity

Uffe Harder (1930 - 2002) was a Danish poet and writer. His poetry was characterized by simplicity (meant positive!) in its expression and wondering at the phenomena in life. 

Being in a chaotic situation I find simplicity a relief and a way to relax and recover.

Bellevue is a beach north of Copenhagen. I used some time last autumn taking pictures there and here is one of those and a poem by Uffe Harder from the collection of poems called "Positions" (Positioner, da), 1964. The translation is unauthorized made by myself.

Bellevue

September

Sand
wire
a row of beach cubicles
with letters

holes in the ground
wind across the sand
waves
deepening darkness
small water basins with fountains
for drinking

no traffic on the roads
the car alone in the car park
deepening darkness
sand
coldness
leaves on the trees
on the threshold of my thirtieth year
here on the sand
in the deepening darkness
and the wind
the questions assume
a painful likeness
to answers