Dear Morten,
Happy 50th Birthday!
We wish you much love, happiness and we hope you enjoy reading these heartfelt poems from some of your fans because you make us smile, and your music means so much to many people all over the World. This is just a small tribute for you to enjoy on your Birthday and I want to thank Sigurjon for being so kind and passing these to you today.
Hei Morten, Jeg heter Karen. Jeg kommer fra Australia. Jeg bor i Storbritannia. Jeg snakker litt Norsk!
Firstly, I want to say how much I love your solo music. My favourite album is Letter from Egypt. I wanted to write a special something for your birthday, but I have never been able to write a poem, so I thought I’d let you know one of my absolute favourites of your songs is Send Me An Angel. I enjoyed hearing it live last year. Please release a Live album of your solo songs and I hope there won’t be such a delay between Letter from Egypt and the next album. See you in November and god bless!
Klem fra Karen Christiansen-Wilson
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by Annalisa Maurantonio (Roma, Italy)
THE EQUATION
You stand to your guitar as I stand to my stylo
YOU : GUITAR = ME : STYLO
The question is:
Time stands to distance, as X to the life-span of a human being.
TIME : DISTANCE = X : LIFE
X = TIME x LIFE / DISTANCE
If you consider the value of time as eternity
And the value of distance as infinity
And life has the value of an instant
Then the result is that
X = LOVE,
That kind of love you need an instant (Life)
To make it last in time (Eternity)
And over distances (Infinity).
So…
YOU stand to LIFE as X stands to ME
YOU : LIFE = X : ME
X = YOU x ME / LIFE
X = LOVE.
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A Birthday Limerick for Morten Harket
By Karen Inda
Reno, Nevada, USA
Now at fifty, Morten is not old!
He is handsome and youthful and bold.
He can still climb a tree,
He’s dynamic and free -
And he sings like an angel of gold.
With much appreciated guidance and a few lines from www.mepsnbarry.com
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Hei Hei Morten
Klem fra Charlotte fra Danmark.
TROLLEBURSDAGFESTEN
Det var ved at være høst og musikktrollen Morten hadde 50 års fødselsdag,bursdag d.14. September og der skulle være riktig stor fest i Trolleskogen Norski.
Alle trolle og dyr der boede i trolleskogen skulle være med til festen med familie og venner og hygge og skåle med trollekaffe og te og spise skogbærkake. Morten skulle synge sine kjempebra låte med sin kjempeflotte stemme og spille sin guitar som alltid veldig bra. Trollejentene ville gjerne synge bursdagslåt for han også. De kunne veldig godt like han.
Morten var veldig hyggelig og snill og interessant at være sammen med og snakke med også.
Alle i trolleskogen gledede seg veldig mye til festen og høre Morten synge og gi klem og ønske han Hjertelig Tillykke, Gratulere med bursdagen og de beste ønsker og lykke til og gi fin presang.
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Roberta Fersen
From Italy
The heart of Norway
An ocean of crystalline water
among endless silent spaces.
Green lawns
woods of birch tree
and perfumed flowers of apple tree
they disclose your beloved name.
Enchanting earth
you have given life
to an angel
with a puff and a pulsation of wings.
I was not happy before
to caress with my look
his immortal lips?
Ah, he doesn’t feel
that that I feel
but equally
fill my thoughts
and my more heart doesn’t belong me.
Love for another time still.
Would I perhaps to feel joy in this?
Love, let me
or not let me go!
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From Jane, Belgium
Count your garden by the colorful flowers
never by the leaves that fall.
Count your days by the sunny hours
don’t remember clouds at all.
Count the nights by the stars, not shadows.
Count your years by the smiles, not sad days.
Count your blessings and not your troubles.
And with much joy on every birthday,
Count your life by FANS! not years.
WISHING YOU A BEAUTY OF A PERFECT DAY
THE LAUGHTER OF A HAPPY HEART
THE JOY OF BEING WITH PEOPLE YOU LOVE
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by Daniela Rioux, 09/09/09
To Morten Harket on his 50th Birthday
Fifty years ago a special person was born
He touched our souls with his voice
And forever took our hearts
For his presence is so strong
And his beauty so deep
Our world is filled with joy,
Whenever he sings.
And everything else
Cease to exist.
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by Silvia Barboza
I have met you in my dreams,
You were warm and sweet,
Stirring me in my night slumber,
Watching your marvelous eyes
The ones you shut when you sing,
I only had to open my arms to reach for you,
And shyly ask you for a song,
Nobody knows how fantastic could be
Admire somebody the way I do
When the song starts the heart too,
How great is being caressed
With your voice, while the music still sounds,
Many times, I have thank God,
For allowed me born
In the same century you did,
Such a pity might be not having had the chance to know you.
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by Claudia (“Brynyld”) Manfredini, Italy
MIRROR
O Brother,
I see my mirror in you.
Restless souls
looking for some Grail.
Eyes searching
the folds of the Universe.
We are made of light
and kneaded with clay,
forever split
between reason and faith,
between the flesh and the spirit.
Give me your hand, my brother:
let me see
my reflection in your eyes.
My analogue,
my akin,
too near to me
to clearly see you.
O Brother, will we ever find
our way?
Eternally travelling.
Eternally fighting
with ourselves.
Opaque to the world.
Opaque to ourselves.
We’re concealing our thoughts
behind veils of mist.
Never give up,
my brother.
Stay on these roads,
because our roads are alike
and maybe someday
we shall meet.
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from Ellen, Bensheim / Germany
You’re entering the Oldspace
it might come as a shock eventually
that you, still feeling young at heart,
are completing half a century
The older call it a man’s best age
-just keep going, you can’t fail
the younger laugh about it saying
you’re living a grandpa’s adventure tale
The lyrics might be harder to remember
the hair is slowly fading away
but after all you’ve got the voice
it’s still beautiful and will hopefully stay!
When you need more breathe to blow out the candles
then you ever needed for the longest note in show
the band colleagues pat your shoulder in sympathy
and the fans write saucy poems – then you know:
you’re fifty, fifty, fifty…
today I have a few lines with me
to congratulate Morten because he’s fifty!
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Happy Birthday Morten
25 years and still going strong
Life choices you’ve told
Through the strength of your songs
We’ve followed your name
Through the wind and the rain
Hoping you’ve found happiness in your fame
We’ve been hunting high and low
For a greeting from the heart,
To wish you some joy on your day
Now your birthday is upon us
We give thanks for what you’ve brought us
And good luck for many years more
Half a century has now passed
Since the day god gave you life
Take a moment to think about the memories
All These Passing years have held,
Your Experiences great and small
That have made you who you are.
Thank you for being you
Helen Clarke
Aberdeenshire, Scotland
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You were a teenage crush,
A fantasy . . .
I watched everything I could about you . . .
Dreaming I could meet you . . .
But then in a space of
21 days . . . my world changed . . .
I lost my mom and the man I loved
At 16 I was devastated, left without hope,
I was alone.
The words from your song
“Stay on these Roads”
Spoke to me, urged me to carry on.
I played it over and over.
In a way you saved my life.
Never underestimate the power of your songs,
Never underestimate the impact that it has.
Thank you A-ha and
Happy Birthday Morten!
by Gina Nel, South Africa
Performing on Countdown
