Not Poetry. Quatrain Verse in English & Swedish. Dagsverser. On the Mundane & the Arcane.
A people’s contention
elite harshly circumscribes
by sternest convention
to inhibit ‘diatribes’
Power elite unsightly
never brooks true order:
We must submit contritely
to their own disorder
The elite bombards us with dubiety
pretending they’re acting with propriety
Sure we have our druthers
so let’s disaffect:
Who cares about others
why be circumspect?
No need genuflect
steel yourself brash
Ignore self-respect
live life slapdash!
Don’t any attempts to be kind
end up putting us in a bind?
As loosen my Life’s moorings
I watch flowers unceasingly
awake in early mornings
my awe deepens increasingly
Long since I sailed close to capsize
on choppy seas of rancor
Now til blurry shores of demise
not long til weighing anchor
Until comes such time, veiled in mystery
striving to live now, not in history
Our poor Earth worn
since long turn leery
from too much scorn
by humans dreary
Sure looking up?
Nary hope
we’re in pileup
you dim dope!
So do look ahead
to soon dropping dead!
Aren’t we under the illusion
that we’re running our own show
carried on with much effusion
presuming only we know?
We’re sitting in the cockpit
but not at the controls!
So best forget about it
there exist no loopholes
Us humans eagerly claim to have a ‘free will’
while getting nowhere on Universe’s treadmill
Mångt blitt vrångt
Livet, vet hut!
Gått för långt
Nog nu, ta slut!
Nätet knökat med strunt
Barn å hund korpulenta
Tankeutbyte grunt
Kändisar dekadenta
Likväl alltid opportunt
att öka sin sedelbunt!
Aren’t we callow
lacking mature breadth?
Even shallow
while pretending depth?
But no need be concerned
as in these times who’d listen:
Haven’t most of us adjourned
to Self-Absorption’s Prison?
Reducing each other to appurtenant
make others’ concerns at best impertinent
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-appurtenant = relating to something that is added but is not essential
-breadth = an ability to address a broad range of issues
How do such s**t hole nations
scrounge up their silly gall
at their poor, lowly stations
to carry on & bawl?
They’re deemed easily exterminable
despairing of survival choices
while Empire’s clamor interminable
in raucous warmongering voices
Claim feverish minds conceptional
perpetually so in vogue:
“U.S. Nation is Exceptional!”
While it’s Herself who’s going rogue
In the end Empire turns effete
and cruelly goes astray
beats a long overdue retreat
hits cataclysm, fades away
Until such time keeps up Her harsh harangue
on Moscow, Tehran, Beijing & Pyongyang
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-going rogue = here: a state that does not respect international laws, treaties and agreements, and engages in unprovoked indiscriminate warfare
-s**t hole nations = quote by Trump
Blir väl oftast att småprata
om tidsfördriv å senaste grej?
Av annat blev vi för lata
gömmer oss helst i genant ståhej
Men för upp klimatförsämring
bland livets stora frågor
å hopp om samhällsförändring:
då blåser upp chockvågor!
Fast en del synes bekymrade
andra rentav indignerade
Vaknade med torr mun
efter natt sömnlös
Gryningen ljusnar tunn
omgivning formlös
Vred o vände mej till morgonstund
finner det svårt att lägga band
när sovit blott nån enstaka blund
Men nu med mobilen i hand …
… fick morgonstund ‘Guld i Mund’
helt älskvärt i välfärd
tog det endast nån sekund
bort från ofärd, irrfärd:
Tills att nu igen återförenad
Inte längre känner mej förmenad!