Each blessed moment its own bestowment

Now’s the time to be strong minded
While the past always matters
when by flashbacks am reminded
I mustn’t drown as it splatters

Rather stretch to my boldest stance
in each new moment’s fraction
am offered yet another chance
with short time frame for action

as resolve tends to fade too fast
never known to loiter & last

Does our ‘witticism’ hide criticism?

Underneath our ‘witticism’
on occasion it seems
lurks unkindly criticism
even lies & grim schemes?

As long as we don’t bore
or taking purloined pity
on those hapless we gore
what’s wrong with being witty?

Have we not learnt that life is unjust
so why do we still react nonplussed?!

Daglig baguette som arvsrätt

I vad som kan kallas
kanske en arvsrätt
t.o.m åkallas
inom viss folkrätt:

I Frankrike ingen bagatell
att var morgon äta sej mätt
i sed djupt förankrad kulturell
på en nybakad färsk baguette

som varje morgon nationellt
bakas fullkomligt manuellt

To a grandchild entering college

She knows her mind
her convictions strong
her heart beats kind
discerns right from wrong

Sweet as sound of dulciana
warm as Summer wind in Havana
crisp as Winter in Montana:
That would be our wondrous Anna!

Better known for compassion
than icon of high fashion

Hat trick

Sam, a 17 y.o. grandson, did a ‘hat trick’:

There was this footballer named Sam
who swiftly went bam, bam & bam

All without a hair out place
what a cool, good looking ace

Poor goalie could not do a damn

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hat trick = scoring three goals in one match

Howling strong in projection

Others’ proclivity
for shameless self-pride
and dull naivety
keep get things cockeyed

So you, know-it-all minion,
won’t let any verified fact
influence your opinion
or allow fairness to detract

Can’t undertake introspection
when howling strong in projection

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projection = (psychiatry) a defense mechanism by which your own traits and emotions are attributed to someone else

“Ours is not to wonder why”. Just happy, thanks, to consume until we die

Dragoons galloped in the Light Brigade
led by incompetence, stupidity
Now another mind-boggling ‘crusade’
this one in commercial avidity:

Likewise is ‘ours not to wonder why’
when charging in reckless cupidity
ours is just to swipe the card to buy
‘Alive’ while wilting in flaccidity

A lack of reflection on blind obedience
may serve to hide in cowardly expedience

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From poem ‘The Charge of the Light Brigade’ by Alfred Tennyson about the 1853 Battle of Balaclava during the Crimean War. The British light cavalry charged, due to its leader’s stupidity & incompetence, on a frontal attack right into the lowered muzzles of Russian artillery. Hence “Ours is not to wonder why. Ours is just to do or die.”

Just for this day walk Universe’s way!

As humans we stagger
in endless desert
keeping up the swagger
digging for paydirt

While our lives set to go awry
why letting cowardice disgrace us?
Don’t despair & lie down & die
just one sand dune til the oasis!

Life’s purpose may be unknowable
at least to humans nebulous
but if in brief glimpses showable
ought that not get us emulous?

What if albeit just for this day
we’d grasp & walk Universe’s way?!