Not Poetry. Quatrain Verse in English & Swedish. Dagsverser. On the Mundane & the Arcane.
Some found driven to exert control
to pile up goods, to hold power
Others languish in more modest role
for just more time in the shower
While our own mole a mighty mountain
other’s mountain a measly mole
Clogged many a compassion’s fountain
merely sprinkles the beggar’s bowl
How come we keep hoarding excess
and coldly transgress for ‘success’?
She: “Recently been thinking a little about the Meaning of Life …”
He: “Honey, why we don’t we google it?”
Boundless affinity for distraction
in vain attempts to handle it all
knee jerks to superficial attraction
one click away or found at the mall
But to lessen Life’s steady pains
must we not all squarely face
how helplessly our vigor drains
caught in Reckoning’s stern gaze?
while our lives us increasingly perplex
by hi-tech growing evermore complex
Sally’s nose, prose & fashion
how she’s just too cloying
Frank’s political passion
ain’t he too annoying?
But bothering with affinity
surely pure prickly vanity?
Best left to saints & divinity
not fallible humanity
We shan’t change them: She’ll sally forth
while he’ll keep on thinking he’s Njorth
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Njorth = (Njörðr in Norse mythology) god of the sea, winds and prosperity
Some 50 percent of U.S. dogs and cats are now overweight or obese shows a recent study conducted by the Association for Pet Obesity Prevention. But dogs and cats do have some catching up to do. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention reports that the percentage of human adults age 20 years and over who are overweight, including obesity, now stands at 69.2 percent (2009-2010)
On their chomping paths unswerving
lazy pets & owners self-coddling
plumb bodies waddle, out-curving
in ‘putting on weight’ role modeling
Hey humans, wheezing, grasping:
“Eat less, walk & don’t kvetch!”
Hey pets, out of breath gasping:
“Get up, out, run & fetch!”
Clearly pet & owner both
of diet & workouts loath
Splurging on carbon speeds global warming
in solipsistic cupidity
Indignantly we waive off all warning
thrashing in torrid acridity
Earth’s plight worsens with rapidity
as we hide behind denial’s fig leaf
most arguments mired in quiddity
While turpitude bolsters beyond belief
… as we indulge & betray
what our children can’t defray
By diffidence tormented
midst misgivings flurried
Absence of peace lamented
for own comfort worried
In life he turned ‘marshmallowed’
swam only where shallow
In cowardice had wallowed
thus aged while still callow
While guilty of many a faux pas
so at least he doesn’t expect applause
Fades away the day meekly
sun rays reflect but bleakly
Amidst cold streaking clouds
on Fall-flattened curve
in sky’s metallic shrouds
sets sun with reserve
Its rays turn opaque
sun sinks to rest
Leaving a chilled wake
in West Southwest
Set upon by darkening squall
in deep, murky waters we trawl
Keyboards clatteringly tapped
without effort or strain
Human memory lapped, gapped
does save time, while lulls brain
By smart devices electronic
bodies slumping catatonic
Instant searches counter-mnemonic
in tasks often histrionic:
Netting but victories Pyrrhic
as online joy fades dysphoric
Soaked in Autumn’s chilled squalls
from communing skies
trees sway in windy brawls
Pendulous allies …
… wholeheartedly plunging
Daring dance enthralled:
branches wildly lunging
though clashes forestalled
Howling gusts stir up leaves on ground
Dark clouds tear through branches ungowned
Past thinning trees ablaze
on roads wetly glaced
In sunlit lukewarm haze
hills pumpingly paced
Slim tires splashing
through leaves stockpiling
Cyclists dashing
on rides beguiling
Linger the last Autumn days
lustrous, crisply tender
Under Winter’s furtive gaze
fades Fall’s cerise splendor
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pumpingly = as in pedaling hard, i.e. ‘pumping’ the pedals