Not Poetry. Quatrain Verse in English & Swedish. Dagsverser. On the Mundane & the Arcane.
Am a wreck in howling storm:
My old knees bit stiff to fold
poor heart runs chilled & warm
wrinkly hands too cold to hold
With ears worn thin and wary eye
I observe Life’s mystery:
Us humans (although we deny)
do hatch our own misery!
In a next life lets apply prudence
as well as ‘uncommon sense’ shrewdness
Does our watching those celebs
so wealthy & carefree
clear our drudgery’s cobwebs
thin out boredom’s debris?
Seen how, say, grocery clerks
carry on like show hosts
setting off verbal fireworks
with check-out line ripostes?
Do talk shows model us folks?
Or do talk shows inform
manipulate, joke & coax
us in how to perform?
… keeping up the banter in ubiquity
in a tiresome culture of obliquity
Hur våra liv berikas
av den svenska folktron
att det kan kunna fikas
i skenbarlig schablon!
Vår Kanelbulle Nation
låt den aldrig svika
för är de inte kanon
dagligen få fika!
Och inte gör vi nått fel
eller råder det brist
på koffein eller kanel?
Påtår, kanelbullist?
Att få mumsa i full rulle
på ännu en kanelbulle!
+) Sedan 1999 firas Kanelbullens dag årligen den 4de oktober
Their ignorance seems foregone
unwittingly adverse
Declaring them a moron
might just make it all worse
Though they aren’t sipping the chalice
of willful and cruel malice
Who thinks those who howl at moons
truly deserve contempt?
Why berate screen-glued maroons
who of insight exempt
but were one of them to feel concern
sufficient then to cause a heartburn?
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maroon: a person ‘marooned’ i.e. stranded or isolated withe little hope of rescue
In the daily juggle
between truth and ruse
where’s the strength to struggle
with what seems abstruse?
Figuring out what Life asks is tough
so easier just to look for stuff!
Unthinkingly the blowhard
old fogy and diehard
keeps chasing every canard
blown across his barnyard
He’s prone to swinging the axe
before checking out the facts
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-canard = an unfounded rumor or story; a baseless, usually derogatory story or report
-facts = as in ‘factual evidence’ – to be ignored when perceived as standing in our way
Turning what’s clear into murky
they digress, they obfuscate
hawk what’s boring as if perky
pounce, batter & inundate
Dogged out-of-breath marketing
intrusive, titillating
in pitches self-aggrandizing
which some find mesmerizing:
Pitching to our cupidity
aided by our torpidity
In human commotion
the fledgling thought crisp & clear
soon blurred by emotion
tears us between hope & fear
That’s why saved-by-the-bell distraction
shall always hold such sweet attraction
and melting down in glower
let’s hang back & closely observe
the gentle limber flower:
Allow her abiding stillness
to squelch our contentious shrillness
When keen to propose a solution
our pitch splendidly articulated
with cliches in such crisp locution
by own idea intoxicated
But a fantasy cure-all
shiny but shortsighted
superficial with much gall
impotent, benighted
Hence just one more ‘pretend solution’
assured to fail in execution