Monday, 27 September 2021

esperanta serio #55 - ponto

 



55

ponto

 

ponto kondukis for

trans la maro

 

neniu iam pensis flosi

aŭ staru sur la akvo

 

ĝis hodiaŭ la ponto daŭras

 

ĉiam pli danĝera

trovante fundon por pilonoj

 

ni estas preter vido de iu bordo

ĉu nun estas ia maniero iri hejmen?

kio se ni venis tro malproksime por piedoj

aŭ por radoj?

 

iam la ponto eble forlavos

 

antaŭ ol tio venos

ĉu ni lernos

se estas alia bordo

aŭ se ĉi tiu mondo estas ronda?

 





 

a bridge

 

a bridge led off

across the sea

 

no one had ever thought to float

or stand upon the water

 

to this day the bridge goes on

 

ever more hazardous

finding bottom for pylons

 

now beyond all sight of land

and what if there’s no going home?

what’s if it’s too far for feet

for wheels?

 

one day the bridge may wash away

 

before that comes

will we have learned

if there is another shore

or if this world is round?


 


#635 - a list of the poets who do not feel that they have been ignored overlooked or underrated

 

27.ix.22

635

2.270

a list of the poets who do not feel

that they have been ignored

overlooked or underrated


 

Sunday, 26 September 2021

#634 - nanobots

 



27.ix.22

634

2.269

nanobots

 

are in the blood

 

tiny spies

and tell me

what to

how to do

 

spread rumours and filth

they call you names

can make you commit odd crimes

nanobots make you vote!

 

they’re pumpin’

get to every nook and cranny

 

they measure the darkness of hearts

they gauge the dimness of the paddock up top  

they can turn black to white

back again

 

see the angels!

 

have you been swabbed?

 

nanobots boil the blood

when you’re never looking

 

so small and cute

then pinch behind

go down like a sack

 

you might be one of them

 

inject the trees

they’ll conspire for height

and socialized medicine too

 

have you noticed how cripples

support public housing?

I think you can put it together

can’t you?

 

subdermal implantable sensor

nudge wink

 

psychadelic nanobots

can open the mind (so called)

spell liberality

then everyone’ll hitchhike

we’ll all have abortions

so nobody’s here at all

 

nanobots make you forget God is watching

chip in the ear and they’ll track you

tatts too

it’s why the young are all bones through the nose

 

and what if the sun doesn’t shine?

and what if the wind won’t blow?

 

Rupert Murdoch defend us all

Clive Palmer and Gina Rinehart  

keep digging

give me a submarine

 

it’s all done in time for thanksgiving

it’s a tax on what you’ve never earned

 

the blacks get it easy

nanobots weaken your resolve

they make us soft like the Romans

remember the Huns?

and the Goths?

and go on

 

bring on the bots

they do a little liberty dance

when they’ve erased up top

 

fantastic voyage where nobody travels

(such are the times)

they are taking the most intimate pictures

 

nuts and bolts in a clear broth of self

some are supersonic

tinnitus is a sign

 

so much shouting between the ears

it’s like a world got in

 

nanobots send you to sleep

that’s the trick

 

we mustn’t mention the Jews, but you know

… the protocols!

 

the Chinese will always obey

Muslims soon as slit your throat  

 

hypnobot cops

cure what ails us all

 

what if the Japanese won the war?

don’t be fooled by the moon

 

it’s best when you can’t see where you’re going

one day we may all travel this way

 

and there’s one jab full of all there’s to know

makes me a genius too

I’ve had mine

 

zombie apocabots

return at the end of time

for a rapture

 

you want to slap them about

make them see reason

 

the message is nicely confused

that’s from marketing

 

and it’s true (though so yesterday) –

pulling yourself up by the bootstraps

is something with which

the barefoot struggle

 

idiots never like being treated as such

and once they ruled the world

we can make great again

 

nanobots

beam me up!

promise!

 

it’s the elites

these are endtimes

the code word is DEPLORE

 

strap on!

 

this planet’s a doughnut

they all are

 

Bill Gates, get it?

Gates?

the mosquitoes are in on this

how can you be so dumb?

 

people down there walk on their heads

eyes are in the bum

 

they won’t teach you that at school

 

as for those who feed us into the fire?

it’s tricky to reason with them

 

nanobots test the intelligence

but it’s really not what you think














esperanta serio #54 - iafoje

 



54

iafoje

 

monto

havas sian propran nubeton

nuberon, iuj diras

 

griza kiel akvo falanta

ĝuste tie

nek ĉi tie nek

 

alta ŝvebado de la tuta mateno pendis

kvazaŭ paŝtante

kvankam je ĉi tiu alteco

la herbo malaperis

 

jen vetero

kie la vento malplej lekas

 

kelkfoje tiel dika

vi ne travidos

kiel ŝaflano, kiun vi vokus

por vespermanĝi

honesta kiel la tago estas longa

 

grimpu al ĝi kaj tra

kaj rigardu vian paŝadon

 

pendigu aŭreolon

kun ĉi tiu vortlongo

tro multe estis legita en

simpla nebulo

 

la tutan someron

mola kiel ombro

herbo teksita

en la jaroj

de tago

 

nuboj forte tranĉis

formu rektajn liniojn

ĉizi posttagmeze

de horoj

pasoj

 

estas nenio en ĉi tiu mondo

rapida kiel monto

 

vidu kiel ĝi kuras

ĝis vidi la muskon flori

 

estas nenio tiel profunda

kiel nubo dormas

 

neniu tempo pasas

ĉi tie

 




 

sometimes

 

a mountain

will have its own little cloud

and wisp, some say

 

grey as water falling

just there

neither here nor

 

high hover of all morning hung

as if grazing

although at this height

the grass is gone

 

this is weather

where the wind licks least

 

sometimes so thick

you won’t see through

like a fleece you’d call

in for dinner

honest as the day is long

 

climb to it and through

and watch your footing

 

hang halo

with a length of word

too much has been read in

a simple mist

 

all summer

soft as shadow

grass woven

in the years

of day

 

clouds cut hard

shape straight lines

carve aftternoon

from hours

to pass

 

there’s nothing in this world

fast as a mountain

 

see how it ran

till watch the moss bloom

 

there’s nothing so sound

as a cloud asleep

 

there’s no time

passing here


Saturday, 25 September 2021

#633 - in dreams they are not gone

 



26.ix.22

633

2.268

in dreams they are not gone

 

where we have been before

sometimes hang on a question

 

everyone’s to visit

and wander on alone

 

it’s always neither day nor sleep

but called to conversation

 

I mean my mum and dad of course

uncles and ancestor, aunt

 

we’re naturals there

none tell a lie

 

where bury my vampire self

bay blood!

 

still shallow

won’t see wings

 

on mountains

and in deal deep

 

in dreams they are not gone

take testament

 

cart hymn here’s

a toy transcendence

 

as if you painted with a garden

live out beyond ourselves

 

there are no numbered years  

so free, so true

 

you’d never know

you’d never know we were there






esperanta serio #53 - bastonoj kaj ŝtonoj

 



53

bastonoj kaj ŝtonoj

 

la lupo havas malbonan nomon

pli malbona ol la vulpo

kvankam nek ruza

nek sinistra

ŝi ŝiras vian koron

al pecetoj

ŝi manĝas ĝin

kaj ŝi lekas siajn lipojn

kaj neniam

lavas la telerojn






                        

                              

 

sticks and stones

 

the wolf has a bad name

worse than the fox

though neither sly

nor sinister

she tears your heart

to shreds

she eats it

and she licks her chops

and never

does the dishes