Höstens sista bleka blad
skälver i enslig parad
Sista bladet på grenen
till den flydda sommarn lojal
eller endast en sen en?
Nej, ett oförvitligt livsval:
Sist att tappa greppet!
Sist att lämna skeppet!
edited 01/27/23 0845
Engagera oss politiskt
beträffande miljöhot
Att söka leva självkritiskt
hellre än som ‘idiot’
Att vi bör ej bränna fossilt alls
redan av Arrhenius förutspått
men vi dansar förnekelsens vals
drumliga, tondöva i miljöbrott
När nu i mänsklighetens kvällning
krävs genomgripande omställning!
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-Svante Arrhenius = svensk kemist-fysiker som i 1896 publicerade en vetenskaplig klimatmodel som visar inflytandet av CO2 på atmosfären
-‘idiot’ = här: från grekiska ‘egen’; syftar på någon som inte tar ansvar i samhället
edited 02/04/25 1700
%) OK not getting what we want – as long as we don’t get what we might deserve
Annoyed in silence we sulk
with feeling have been offended
Perhaps glad at chance to skulk
mope in victimhood pretended?
Feel we’re not being treated right?
What if we are?! Here’s what ought unnerve:
imagine how severe our plight
if receive what we rightly deserve
when we’re lashing out at every ‘offense’
in thin-skinned, callow, ego-fueled pretense!
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victimhood = the kind that declares that “if I feel like a victim then I am a victim”
edited 11/17/23 0800
Our son had to evacuate in the recent CA wildfires
No polite little hint
or mere nudge effete
Open your eyes, don’t squint:
Fistful of browbeat!
The wildfire
its scorching flames
deadly, dire
steady its aims
Soon shall burn again
not wise to remain
edited 06/07/22 0725
Erstwhile restraint all gone
guts soft, hearts hardened
Attempting every con
foul fallout pardoned
Society’s strands frayed
way beyond hope of repair
From empathy’s path strayed
face down in ditch of despair
Sunk in our armchair
‘thinking’ now as the herd
Watching the fanfare
until our vision blurred
Been living sardined
soon dying demeaned
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-fanfare = here: the ostentatious political lies, media propaganda, endless entertainment, commercials etc
-sap = (slang) a fool; sucker; dupe
-sardined = in cramped, hampered conditions, here: as far as outlook, perspective, context
edited 07/11/23 0800
In all around us collapse
humans best at our worst
In reoccurring relapse
a Species sadly cursed
Our worst foot forward
acting when not knowing
Drifting back shore ward
‘progress’ never slowing
Watch our denial glisten
as we refuse to listen!
edited 04/26/25 0905
We had even planned on expansion
but no longer making the grade
Since lost our overblown McMansion
now dwell in ‘hovel’ without maid
Reality, not erstwhile charades,
humiliating and novel
Tumbling hard in Free Market cascades
spoiled lives crashed now have to grovel
No longer fine china afternoon tea
got dumped hard into Actuality
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-charade = a blatant pretense or deception, especially something so full of pretense as to be a travesty
-McMansion = or Starter Castle
edited 02/03/23 1420
On our science PhD neighbor attempting – albeit commendably – to write verse.
There was this science PhD
a versifier wannabe
but as been schooled in reason
on rhyme declared free season
so bit to go til apogee!
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-apogee = the highest point in the development of something
-free season = legally available to be hunted or caught
edited 11/23/21 1540
Efforts effete about the climate
and growing inequality
while for a neo-Nazi Heimat
abounds power and polity
about endless warfare
ever pushing containment
From our comfy armchairs
such splendid entertainment
Empire’s proud minions cruel
hardened hearts steeped in myth
splash in consumer cesspool
Unease gnaws on our pith …
… when reduced to watch the next wildfire
and the nuclear race on high wire
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myth = here: worshiping the ‘Exceptional Nation’ as the ‘Global Arbiter of Democracy & Freedom’
edited 04/22/24 1545
With riches ill gotten
they now claim entitled hots
(ethics best forgotten)
for more mansions, art & yachts
While the poor ‘ill begotten’
have most essential hots
for meals less thin & rotten
and to sleep on clean cots
On each poor the rich make but a penny
but it adds up because they’re so many
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-hots for = having or showing great eagerness or enthusiasm for
-ill-begotten = ill-conceived; pertaining to ‘inferior’ parentage
-ill-gotten = acquired by illicit or improper means
edited 10/04/23 1820
