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IN PRESENT TENSE

Jan G. Otterstrom F 1944 (San Francisco)

        IN PRESENT TENSE
Learning from my genealogy that I am
first cousin to William Shakespeare, a
past and future crammed into present
tense, owing integrity to complexity
with “shadows of my sorrow”, reason
by itself so often confounded, him as
me an explorer of words, never really
knowing myself, until reflected in my:

Poems; I discovered I; my eyes now
with sight, feelings of new intensities
finally “one true sense” in a phantasm
of a mortal dream; my instruments of
genius in council being, now how sweet
the moonlight sweeps upon my woods
or as he would have said: “sleeps upon”.
Love now looking with the mind, as “if
I had conscious let it sink in.” The time
always changing, yet always the same.
© Jan G. Otterstrom F.
    April 21, 2024
                                                              

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Scheme AXXXBXXBX XAXXXXXXXXXX
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 837
Words 141
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 9, 12
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Jan G. Otterstrom F

Born October 18, 1944, San Francisco, in a blackout as my parents were at the opera Rigoletto with Jan Peerce as the lead tenor and Lily Pons, raised in La Jolla CA. High School Lycee Jaccard Lausanne, Switzerland, BYU english major winning the Hart Larson Poetry prize my senior year 1967, Gonzaga University Law School, later moved Costa Rica, earned the MBA at INCAE traveled widely, finally spending many years in Cuba where my poetry was published by the UNEAC. two books LOOM and Suite de la Habana. Since I have dedicated myself to writing and now have 19 books published over 6000 poems in print. My purpose is to leave something, to remember me by, for my 11 children and more than 56 grandchildren and great grandchildren and more on the way. more…

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