Not Poetry. Quatrain Verse in English & Swedish. Dagsverser. On the Mundane & the Arcane.
A tree will grow
almost anywhere
perfectly slow.
Of what, whom aware?
We cannot you or me
thrive between boulders.
Lacking unlike the tree
patience, behold hers!
By Nature’s fashion bedight
chilled or damp shade endures
as well in blinding sunlight
stoically inures.
Imperceptibly stretches
the tree shall persevere.
On faintest skyline etches
foliage crystal clear.
While trees shiver in still silence
humans rage in chain saw violence.
Gushing over ‘high society’
in such slack-jawed stupefaction?
Finding its crass impropriety
a never ceasing attraction?
Reading about celebs of means
(chauffeured in their limousines)
in check-out counter magazines?
If amusing, by all means!
But is it long term fulfilling
that what it might be instilling?
While us mediocrities much maligned
viewed as hapless maidens dowry-less
humans see matters clearer when sidelined
uninvested, as well powerless
What presumption of the Power Elite
skewed sense of selves & cluelessly effete!
Vanligtvis skämtsam
är väl gubben Sundin
tror sej va hjälpsam
trots tyvärr kort stubin
Tyvärr enträgen
inbillar sej skojfrisk
sällan förlägen
ogärna kåserisk
En man besynnerlig
tvär å säregen
Livsföring underlig
sällan förtegen
Tills trots livets avoghet
slår hjärtat i idoghet
in the contemporary
promptly pillaging the Planet
for ends pecuniary
Under lame pretext of Progress
while fouling our Species’ Nest
with Technology we obsess
betraying Those Coming Next
But those of us simply not aware
surely can’t be expected to care?!
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gannet = large heavily built seabird with a long stout bill who feeds itself by plunging dives for fish
Aren’t words fading of meaning
in to something we just utter
to buttress our keen preening
we spread them thickly like butter?
With screens abound who needs pedagogy
when we have all pictures & emoji?
Silly vanity
of ignorance willful
and inanity
of ineptness skillful
When we’re selecting words on how they sound
then how wouldn’t sentences get out of bounds?
Do our character flaws
whatever the cause
detract like tearing jaws
or mere scratching paws?
Flaws shall keep us estranged
make us seem deranged
and while feeling shortchanged
still persist unchanged
Human Nature unruly
which we ought but abhor
it keeps us ensnared cruelly
Just doesn’t work to ignore
Keeps persisting immutably
while doing so inscrutably
That facts be scientific
how plain laughably quaint
boring & soporific
quash them by faith’s feint!
When of own notions reverential
of logic we must be wary
make truth & fairness nonessential
Our wishes must reign primary!
Not to worry, never mind
science couldn’t be wronger!
There’s insight of higher kind:
Faith unhinged is stronger!
Mired in impotency pained
all inspiration gone
Of fresh material drained
my well too deeply drawn
Shaft been echoing eerily
after known reserves were drawn
Been reduced to watch wearily
depleted in guts & brawn
After short fused she took off my muse
on some perhaps booze induced type cruise
edited 04/04/24 0920