Not Poetry. Quatrain Verse in English & Swedish. Dagsverser. On the Mundane & the Arcane.
Like light winds shifting
blowing across the pond
lazy thoughts drifting
awed, by escapism spawned
Unmoored our minds flap
as plunged stones or dipped oars
stir small waves which lap
expediency’s shores
Minds in the mundane adrift
to most else giving short shrift
Let’s not use logic or facts
as way burdensome to prepare
fitting into our talking tracts
Much easier to just declare!
Who cares for solidarity
never mind the aftermath
Stay with stale insularity
let’s walk our own primrose path
on which responsible objectivity
won’t risk meet with scantest receptivity
In every port city
blown above ship hulls
eerily the ‘ditty’
of screeching seagulls
Thus welcomed the seafarer
who soon senses constrain
and the Sea, the ensnarer,
lures him back to its reign
So with eyes teary
sailors depart mournful
of port nights weary
of landlubbers scornful
O, how smugly incurious
in our vapid vanity
when facts we declare spurious
clinging to inanity!
Smooth snappiness in language
emojis, tropes, cliches
Cannot conceal our anguish
of deepening malaise:
such as we’re The Nation Exceptional
always indistinctly conceptional
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)
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?
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?
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!
Polluting & depleting
we’re fouling our own nest!
A planet overheating
but hey, we’re on a quest!
Whether by plain obliviousness
narcissistic dereliction
or shackled by lasciviousness
must end with species eviction
Yeah but, won’t our mindlessness be excused
as we’re by snappy ‘yeah but’ quips bemused?
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-‘yeah but’ quip = such as: “Oceans rising? Yeah but, won’t we all get waterfront property then!”
Commendable inaction
laissez-faire distraction
both strong tools of exaction
holding our attraction
Why striving for Reality
when in Fantasy dissolutely
we can spout off hyperbole
ducking resistance resolutely
In these times of eroding erudition
just adjusting ‘Reality’ definition