Northern feeling

Crossing borders with jet stream like a Canadian

goose flying away from Botlek towards the Faroe Islands.

 

Listen to melodies of deep-frozen mythology

trollish riddles from faraway places.

Flown past Iceland, waves in the sea become blinding

glittering field full of emptiness above Northern Greenland.

 

Baffin Bay glaciers, green rocks melt the heart where

Europe reaches into Canada as distance disappears.

If only I could dissolve in vulnerable permafrost

that may last forever in the glow of the midnight sun.

 

Nanisivik, Pond Inlet, Clyde River and later Yellowknife.

Is the plane jetting, or am I from head to toe?

Citizens of the world on their way to …

the moon does not seem far away.

 

Flying above Canadian icefield
Icefield in Yukon, Canada

Translation of my poem ‘Noordelijk gevoel‘, with a little help from Google Translate
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