John Willy Kopperud[wipperud]

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Memory from 1773 : Haiku - and history of music part VIII
Poetry 2007-10-03 (3752 hits)

Dictator : ...And Poet (Haiku)
Poetry 2007-09-22 (4598 hits)

Talkative Bird addressing one Scholar : Lost in The Woods
Poetry 2007-09-15 (2986 hits)

CRUCIFIED : ...again
Poetry 2007-09-09 (5277 hits)

My Dad : On His Deathbed
Personals 2007-08-31 (5219 hits)

Supermen? : ...Tell Me When
Poetry 2007-08-25 (4703 hits)

Football : And The Laws of Nature
Poetry 2007-08-23 (2950 hits)

(Nr7)Dylan singing : ...When The Ship Comes In (Haiku)
Poetry 2007-08-15 (4377 hits)

Submerged : And Still In Motion
Poetry 2007-08-03 (4403 hits)

Inside or Outside The Gates of Eden? : ...while visiting Kreuzberg, Berlin
Poetry 2007-07-20 (3795 hits)

Manitou : ....Is Waiting
Poetry 2007-07-15 (5231 hits)

The Lasting Problem of Evil : ...concerning Dan's poem "The Lie" and the thereupon following comments
Essay 2007-07-01 (7314 hits)

Just another Fairytale : ...in this buggers mind (Haiku)
Poetry 2007-06-25 (3914 hits)

The Inner Screen : On a Summer eve (Haiku)
Poetry 2007-06-20 (3154 hits)

Hitch - Haiku : Ancient Hippie Lore
Poetry 2007-06-12 (6657 hits)

God, Love, Hate and Evil : Commenting your Comments
Poetry 2007-06-09 (5940 hits)

One Last Glimpse : ...of Mr.C. on Telly
Poetry 2007-05-29 (3382 hits)

The Nutters made my day... : ...On the First of May
Poetry 2007-05-12 (4300 hits)

Civilization : ...and it's benefits
Essay 2007-04-29 (6490 hits)

Latter Day Baroque : ...with an appetite
Poetry 2007-03-31 (7567 hits)

(Nr.6)One Replica : ...one Captain (Beefheart)
Poetry 2007-03-20 (3056 hits)

Coming Ashore : ...she won't do that no more
Poetry 2007-02-24 (6794 hits)

(Nr.5)The Rite of Spring : ...some hot summer day
Poetry 2007-02-14 (3591 hits)

(Nr.4) The Storyteller : ...woke me up
Poetry 2007-02-07 (3482 hits)

Hovering : ...like a Dragonfly over the History of Music
Essay 2007-01-16 (10964 hits)

(Nr.3) Farinelli : Accessories
Poetry 2007-01-08 (4300 hits)

(Nr.2. ) You knew how to measure : and tighten that string
Poetry 2006-12-25 (6435 hits)

(Nr.1) The joy of noise : ...as I began
Poetry 2006-12-09 (5344 hits)

Words wearing boots : Which owl hoots?
Poetry 2006-11-14 (4849 hits)

Double norwegian standards : regarding peace
Poetry 2006-10-29 (5796 hits)

Melancholy : Jazz(added explananatory notes)
Poetry 2006-10-22 (3287 hits)

That's what you get : ...from living in the warzone
Poetry 2006-10-17 (3102 hits)

My youth in the suburb : Cultural background
Personals 2006-10-15 (4123 hits)

Calm or passionate? : Would you choose?
Personals 2006-10-11 (4512 hits)

Come All Ye Space Cadets : Pilgrimage
Poetry 2006-10-09 (4238 hits)

Sweet wonder : Trouble at the Stock Exchange
Poetry 2006-09-30 (3147 hits)

With You My Love : ...in silence
Poetry 2006-09-17 (3112 hits)

In the Belly of The Beast : Excerpt from a monster movie
Poetry 2006-09-11 (5733 hits)

Ode to Syd B. : The Gnome Revisited and revised
Poetry 2006-09-10 (3180 hits)

The Spider : ...And The Flies
Poetry 2006-09-03 (3225 hits)

Talking about politics on Agonia : What IS literature?
Essay 2006-08-29 (5172 hits)

Two shots of whisky and a beer : Bass, guitar and clarinet
Poetry 2006-08-25 (3357 hits)

The Poet : Forever Cross-eyed
Poetry 2006-08-19 (3888 hits)

Trees : fond memories
Poetry 2006-08-15 (3997 hits)

Banan Appeal : Afterthought
Poetry 2006-08-09 (3860 hits)

Secularism and the French revolution : libertê,egalitê,fraternitê - revised version
Essay 2006-07-31 (10088 hits)

The importance of laughter : Cutting them down to size
Prose 2006-07-27 (5964 hits)

Nostalgia : Or rather "heimweh".
Poetry 2006-07-21 (4318 hits)

Relentlessly cheerful : Conversational snapshot
Poetry 2006-07-16 (3564 hits)

At all times unknown : Salute to the unsearchables
Poetry 2006-07-08 (9688 hits)

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Cheers from Willy

Cheers from Willy

I'd love to have grass outside this building mowed by rabbits. Cheers from Willy

A flow

magnificently

Those wings!

Mmmm..

I certainly enjoyed-

And you do

Anca!

Thank you so much

Indeed, Raj

Thank you, Romulus

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The Chimney sweeper
Poetry by William Blake

Fragment 52
Poetry by Sappho

You've got to hide your love away
Poetry by JOHN LENNON

Jabberwocky
Poetry by lewis carroll

Berket and the Stars
Poetry by William Carlos Williams

With God on our side
Poetry by Robert Allen Zimmerman

It seems so long ago
Poetry by Leonard Cohen

Howl
Poetry by Allen Ginsberg
Alternative version

It's all over now, baby blue
Poetry by Robert Allen Zimmerman

Biography John Willy Kopperud

First years spent in various towns surrounding the Oslo fiord. Grew up in a suburb east of the city, both near to and withdrawn from my numerous peers. Significantly radicalized at the age of fourteen. Grew disappointed with the revolution and signed up for the magical mystery autumn 69. Radicalized once more. Dropped out once more. Fairly well educated during the 80's and 90's.
Poetry? Off and on, I'd say. Besides poems I have weitten both pop lyrics (plus lyrics for contemporary music)and short stories. What moves me? Imagination I guess. Imagination should not contradict everyday life (and the other way around.)
I must hold forth that good old Willie S. has quite a point when he gives fair warning regarding "The man who hath no music in himself."
Music? I have mentioned pop lyrics - to be more precise - most of these are connected to the singer/songwriter tradition. Concrete and melodious music. I have also been active in another musical area,
in the crossroad between music and noise. This is not academic sheet-music, it's rather built on improvisation and momentary exploration. Later on the product has been technically modified. Roar Borge My accomplice in the project "Fisk på Disc" available with the MP3 Album "School of fish'n'chips" through the net-distrubutor, TibProd. He has done the producing in his home studio on his own computer. The album is no. 53 in the companys catalogue and the address is : http://www.tibprod.com.
Ten tracks on the net for you to download. Be my guests!

My wife, Kristin, is responsible for some very nice poetic lyrics. For some of that material I have written
pop/singer-songwriter music.

Married to my life companion at the age of 33.One child. We live in a suburb some six kilometers from where I grew up.
Career: No big deal. Life: Good. Hardships: Yes
Happiness: Yes.