Copenhagen Day 3–In Which Denmark is So Cool, and I Write in Haiku.

Denmark is so cool
All of those coloured buildings
Lining the streets

We’re back on the bus
We still have forty-eight hours!
The sun is shining

First stop Cathedral
The giant carved wood organ
Hanging over head

But the tower calls
We must climb four hundred steps
The thought makes me faint

On the way up, art.
Cherubs fill the bell tower
Wings under the bed

Inside all is fine
Outside the steps are so steep
I am sure to fall

Only half the way
Passed by girl with leg in cast
No word of a lie

Near the top such wind
Surely it will blow us off
”Tourists fall to death”

Back down I must go
Clinging to the copper wall
Everyone laughing

The view from the top
Oresund bridge to Sweden
Zoe took the pic

I looked up to see
This graffiti down below
I certainly am

Half-way down again
The houses look so tiny
Or special effects?

Back at the bottom
It’s time for a canal ride
The tower mocks me

At the Nyhavn
Ai Wei Wei’s installation
The Soleil Levant

Thirty five hundred
The number of lifejackets
Collected in Greece

Lesbos overwhelmed
Refugees lost lives at sea
All that’s left washed up on shore

So very moving
Stupid Yankee tourists said
Who is Ai Wei Wei?

Back on the canal
It’s all houseboats all the time
Such is the life here

More Little Mermaid
But here’s the alternative
Such an improvement!

In Copenhagen
The locals prefer to sit
on the pier and watch

A shopping trip next
Pedestrian Zones everywhere
Please no H&M

Really I mean it
Too many hours waiting there
Girls trying on clothes

Another two hours
I will never get them back
H&M, F.O.

Now we need some food
Replenishment of our souls
lost in H&M

Ice cream and churros
Ten thousand calories at once
It’s popular here

Danes love their hot dogs
No more ninety dollar lunch
Short bun looong sausage

Open faced sandwich
rye bread, lox, pickles, and dill
apples on top, yum

Your angle is wrong
Says Terra of my food photos
Bird’s eye view is best

Our day almost done
I dream of an early night
On the way home, Tivoli

Dreams dashed, we go in
A mini Disneyland park
Walt Disney loved it

The girls love it too
They swing, spin, drop, fly their way
through the park for hours

I watch from safety
It has a Disneyland feel
Walt stole some ideas

Finally we leave
No early night for us now
But good memories

The sun is setting
Our street is still full of life
From the balcony

We leave tomorrow
Next stop Norway mountain lodge
That’s it for Haiku

Cheers,

Jane