Time for Sam to majorly exult:
“Today is the day I turn adult!”
Eighteen a special number
that shall us disencumber
when from childhood shot by catapult
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disencumber = to free from a burden or other encumbrance
edited 07/05/24 0800
‘Vincit qui se vincit’
a pursuit salutary
One for which requires grit
on steep road solitary
As ain’t Life’s only bestowment
one step in each fleeting moment?
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-vincit qui se vincit = he conquers who conquers himself
edited 10/11/2026 0815
Girig å otålig
åt han upp hela smeten
verkade lycksalig
för va en söt å fet en
Det tycktes ej honom beröra
att oss andra ej fick smaka
enär sa: “Va med mej att göra
vad kan ha kunnat orsaka?”
Förfäktade: “Såvida jag vet
så lagades alltför lite smet!”
edited 04/10/25 0815
I akterlig ljuv bris
seglar jag mot sista hamn
i tilltro, ej kapris
lämnar jag snart livets famn
Det blev en lång vindlande resa
rosig glädje bland törntagg nesa
edited 06/15/24 0825
My wife Crabby & me Grumpy
our bodies frail, minds flabby
now on our Life’s home stretch bumpy
Recall gotten bit shabby …
… but never shall we let the Memory to pale
of our Wondrous Journey finding the Holy Grail
edited 02/04/25 1030
Right wingers march in neo-heimat
breathe out air & thought pollution
To ignore the collapsing climate
appears their preferred ‘solution’
How shall this mess, surely soon, end
as false cheers grips us in abjection?
Threats of restraint makes deadly blend
in consumer dreams to selection
Wars been raging without ceasefires
as do now global floods, wildfires
Nations lacking sense to back down
Prance at very edge of nuclear wars
they war game limited showdown
while cyber tech pries open backdoors
Too close to the edge we totter
in political meltdown
The self-styled ‘genius’ plotter
keeps up being vile a clown
Economy precariously
tumbles while greed’s ruthless prophets
on Wall Street deal nefariously
amass usurious profits
Enabled by our own inanity
we’re perishing amidst insanity!
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-abjection = degradation
-‘genius’ plotter = Trump
edited 09/02/25 0915
There was this woman outright pernickety
while mired as well in habits persnickety
She’s excelled stirring up the dust
leaving us all feeling nonplussed
Stemming from our own low standards rickety?
edited 01/14/25 0650
Up the rose strewn trail scented
rushes the frantic fool
dizzy, common sense dented
like a kid out of school
We’re unfazed
hasty, dazed
our eyes glazed
all sense razed
Aroused to love romantic
what thrilling perception
our life’s unrivaled antic
of passion, deception
A game by a Creator ‘demented’
assures new generations tormented
edited 03/12/23 0820
Have we noticed less yelling
these days in tight traffic
less impudent labeling
fewer gestures graphic?
Do we drive more like adults
with manners to be commended
lessened the need to insult
and slower to get offended?
If so, it might be truth to say
for fear of being blown away?
edited 04/01/24 1745
At times has been avowed
my enthusiasm gallant
while sparingly endowed
with any useful talent
Hence I’ve barely begun
at age eighty-two
to get hoped-for things done
with some derring-do
But as by now glaringly way too late
I’ll keep playing to my ‘strength’, i.e. prate
