Canaria   We’re not like those who desire freedom At a distance, spending their life in boredom, In a prison filled with old brochures Advertising trips to frozen pastures.   We were patient enough to wait For truth to transform us through the gate Of a temple named Poema del Mar – We never thought…

In the airplane magazine of Easy Jet (January 2020), a chance meeting on the dissecting table of a luxury bag and the Übermensch.  

Lännersta, Saltsjö-Boo, Sweden, 1st of January 2020 ___________________ The most beautiful and deepest experience a man can have is the sense of the mysterious. It is the underlying principle of religion as well as all serious endeavour in art and science. He who never had this experience seems to me, if not dead, then at…

  You see in a reverie A coloured butterfly A childhood memory Through your inner eye   While the outer one red In tears without clue Your iris misled Into a darker blue   Shall we open our soul To avoid being blind? From the sight of the whole All our fears quarantined   Please…

This morning, as I was walking along the beach, some five thousand kilometres from home in Sweden, I met – randomly – a fellow researcher from my Swedish University and her two young children. She presented me as someone who writes poems (“dikter” in Swedish), and the little boy repeated pensively: “dikter”… A bit later…

“Humans do not sufficiently realize that their future is in their own hands. Theirs is the task of determining first of all whether they want to go on living or not. Theirs is the responsibility, then, for deciding if they want merely to live, or intend to make just the extra effort required for fulfilling,…