Not Poetry. Quatrain Verse in English & Swedish. Dagsverser. On the Mundane & the Arcane.
Vad jag då än ämnade
hur eller någonstans
så beklagligt lämnade
för dårskap utomlands
Inget tycks dofta
av varm trygghet
som mormors kofta
i all skygghet
Ingen vind har susat
som i min barndoms skogar
ingen dans har tjusat
som på ungdomens logar
Om jag kanske får leva ännu en gång
ska jag lyssna bättre till hemlandets sång
Faces may look ashen
of cyclists vintage
look as out of fashion
as penny mintage
But on self-selected rounds
cyclists rarely feel repletion
as riding the ups & downs
rarely results in depletion
But they find life off the bike middling
movement without pedaling: piddling
Blustering bully clown
the unhinged ‘junker’
Trump just won’t hunker down
in White House bunker
but carries on conceited
in full blown narcissism
indulges in untreated
racism, neo-fascism
His volcanic vanity
pounds in profanity
Incessant inanity
sprains human sanity
‘Reality Show’ Democracy
bestowed on us: Kakistocracy!
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-junkers = the landed ‘nobility’ in Prussia. their great estates (in Trump’s case: golf resorts, hotels & casinos) are worked by those with few rights
-kakistocracy = government by the vile & worst, least qualified or most unscrupulous citizens (from Greek kakistos: worst)
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