Not Poetry. Quatrain Verse in English & Swedish. Dagsverser. On the Mundane & the Arcane.
Watch the mind meander
ambushing, springing
skirting facts & candor
us along-stringing
Mind hatches impudent plots
draws responses oblique
Cause & effect tied in knots
same excuses antique
Blurry mind clips squeak rudely
Like rusty shears of fear
whirl & creak & clack crudely
through tender feelings tear
Not until curbed the mind’s confusion
shall the heart beat in warm effusion
What’s with all that piling schmear
such sad state of affairs?
Are we now suspended here
wonder in whose crosshairs?
In this precarious mess
seems we’re doomed you & I?
We shall furthermore digress
when realizing why:
‘Free will’ amongst cruel jokes
a most dire delusion
victims of the programmed hoax
of earthly confusion!
Life’s narrowing path now turns steeper
our strides shorter on feet colder
Glimpsing the shadow of The Reaper
we turn, in vain, the cold shoulder
Our breath wheezing & shallow
gotten deaf to light sounds
Ages since we were callow
though still may act like clowns
While as our ego-driven selves fade
we’re freed up from the urge to persuade
Got a sweet crush
on robust rush?
The activity junkie
moved by proclivity
ever foraging, spunky
in reactivity
Must keep up the constant clanking
as quiet locomotion
found infinitely more rankling
than noisiest commotion
and stopping to catch one’s breath
would surely be to risk death!
Sleep’s traces much remain
as she rubs her eyes
Awake, alive again
stretch, time to arise!
Out from rumbled sheets crinkly
vision blurred, tussled hair
Ears red, cheeks & nose wrinkly
her voice muffled, face bare
From ‘looks in bed’ to beauty table
embracing cosmetology
From what’s natural on to fable
hardly ‘in depth’ psychology:
Largely by convention hustled
leads us worshiping in line
by glitzy marketing muscled
to mere Skin Deep Beauty’s Shrine
Why let days blur by in caprice
like, glimpsed through train windows, power poles?
There’s only in the moment peace
for our harried hearts & arid souls
Whether dawns again the morrow
or fades yet another day
lets relish joy amidst sorrow
Or tell me another way?
I’d maintain living in The Moment
is Humanity’s best bestowment …
With aging it may prove opportune
willingly to depart the stage
with dignity to face our ‘high noon’
turn the age appropriate page?
Better renounce the charade
before boos & whistle
All performances shall fade
fidgety crowds bristle
Rather leaving still carried by cheers
spared humiliation, crying
if having been thrown out on our ears
midst rotten tomatoes flying
Step aside, pointless to feign
time to bring out the champagne!
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-high noon = here: facing something unavoidable if we aspire to some measure of courage & integrity; title of 1952 film
In universe, who knows ‘created’
most human lives cold & cruel
precarious while inundated
by predators’ gnash, growl & drool
Human character malicious
too many a morsel wrenched
in tempers raging flagitious
out from pale fists tightly clenched
We’re contused in careening
searching Life for traction
Agonizing for meaning
detoured by distraction
If Life’s a ‘circus’
strive to be its lions
who in poked percuss
still roar in defiance
By vicious whips cracked
as raw welts burn
odds cruelly stacked
Still breathe to yearn
But never lose hope
with courage, flair
try changing the scope
Stare down despair:
Straighten from our serfly stance
from talk in abstraction
Embrace your life as romance
with steadfast exaction!
Human Life’s but a fleeting dash
til it ends in merciless crash
Forlorn, dark wet branches
stretch into gray sky
As morning advances
voices drawing nigh:
Not another rainy day!
Declared in thoughtless haste
a jilted overcast day
that we’re resigned to waste?
Let’s find a deeper way of gleaning
each day for its purpose & meaning!
When on sugar, dairy
meat & chicken fed
our stomachs turn wary
as our waistlines spread
Indulging food, fat & salty
in lifestyle sedentary
downing drinks distilled & malty:
Shortcuts to cemetery!
On the smooth wings of chocolate
we soar into sweetened space
but lightheaded in the cockpit
we’ll crash in nauseous a place
Cheese of ambrosial yellow
sliced so thickly & warm
while the milk cows do bellow
as their udders deform
We leave our conscience unheeded
of ‘dairy farming’ cruel
If not morally enfeebled
wouldn’t we rather slurp gruel?
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-gruel = here: how anyone ‘addicted’ to salt, sugar, dairy, meat & sweets would regard any dish lacking these ingredients