Not Poetry. Quatrain Verse in English & Swedish. Dagsverser. On the Mundane & the Arcane.
Who would unprompted share
one’s fact-grounded opinions
let heart & mind laid bare
to cliché-spouting minions?
Would that not be to squander
what is for each quintessential
in a frivolous yonder
tangential to life essential?
Unless someone seems sincerely to query
better perhaps of the limelight be leery?
‘Ordfast’ å ‘ordhållig’
är gedigna gamla ord
från en tid stryktålig
Medan nya låneord:
Otåliga
Piffigt pråliga
Ihåliga
Undermåliga
Oaktat om gamla orden uthålliga
betraktas de troligen nu som stolliga
Lunatic lies unending
narrative paths twisted
both facts & logic bending
evasions enlisted
Do we prefer lies outrageous
to mere reality obstruction?
In these troubled times contagious
which do offer foremost distraction?
Hard to see a happy ending
to such abomination
Society’s fabric rending
soon falls ‘civilization’!
Meantime more ‘fun’ a neo-fascist autocrat
than some smart, informed, honest, social democrat
Såg sej själv överdådig
trodde sej rättrådig
fastän endast villrådig
allenast självrådig
Föll på nunan i snabbt sus
munnen på vid gavel
i mark full med sand å grus
kraftuttryck av svavel
Levde i sus å dus
i stöddigt självvalt rus