eric sundin

Since been blessed to know stillness
are we not now sensing squarely
as agonizing ‘shrillness’
even when dough rises barely?

Clasped in stillness each moment
entirely abounds
ethereal bestowment
eternally astounds

Though clear-cut answers may prove chimeric
resting in stillness is found mesmeric

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-chimeric = hoped for but illusory or impossible to achieve
-mesmeric = compelling, fascinating

edited 05/08/23 0905

In 2016 Hillary Clinton treated voters like neglected dogs, which even so should somehow be expected to happily wave their tails at her. After all one of her slogans mightily presumed: “It’s her turn!’. Some of these long suffering dogs bit her instead.

While low were voter expectations
So what? Been so for generations

Bleak, tawdry that election
discourse stuck inchoate
while she was the selection
of Israel, Kuwait

Worn people like soggy dogs
tails tween legs, buzzed by fleas
on muddy slippery slogs
shook off Hillary’s bees

Campaign’s debates were largely disingenuous
the candidate’s grip on Reality tenuous

edited 03/13/24 0840

***%) May I not crumble bereft!

Trend chasing & smart phone prattle
sound to me like empty rattle

It keeps fading my persistence
feeling drained & depleted
Asking haven’t I gone the distance
or am I just conceited?

May I just be left alone?
Chances of change long blown
feeble, soggy my backbone
Hope, once stout, long since flown

In what small time may still be left
please let me not crumble bereft!

edited 08/17/24 0830

On the election of Donald Trump:

Why not a Prez buffoonish
for this Nation Exceptional
where politics cartoonish
discourse rarely conceptional?

Weary World, do save your breath
Trump shall keep up wreaking death

edited 06/17/22 1815

If it requires boundless words
then is it worth saying
bar for literary nerds
conceitedly braying?

But when needs to be addressed
then let’s articulate
Let it be tersely expressed
avoid pontificate

Dazzle us not with harsh Kliegs at night
but bathe us in morning’s soft sunlight

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Klieg light = an intense carbon arc lamp especially used for film shoots

edited 04/10/24 0940

Does stressing words’ distinct meaning
make us viewed as ‘opinionated’
while glossaries overweening
leave us week & intimidated?

Are words merely something we say?
So might as well be snappy
no need for syntax to obey
let them roam free & happy!

Are words just something we utter
in verbose clutter & din?
letting frivolously flutter
& cascade freed from chagrin?

Have words now gotten just something we say?
Besides who are listening anyway?

edited 06/29/25 0645

Ord försvagas när för många
blir alltför lätt övermodiga
släpper otåligt ut ånga
Mens hovsamma när fåordiga

så koncist för upp frimodigt
så länge görs tålmodigt
med beteende saktmodigt
Fast numera urmodigt

bland oss i pladdrandets fängelse
o samhällelig förgängelse

edited 10/13/2026 1340

Strident pretentious criticism
drips superciliously
even with purloined witticism
it bursts out biliously

Due to mere facile silliness
or to our own hearts’ chilliness?

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bilious = peevish, irritable, cranky

edited 12/01/23 1800

Så kortfattat som möjligt
men utförligt uttänkt
trovärdigt å oböjligt
helt nyktert fast beskänkt

För det kan ju bli upphetsat
över epigram tillspetsat

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-beskänkt = här: emotionell, känslofylld, känslosam
-nykter = här: sansad, förståndig, omdömesgill, klartänkt

edited 02/27/25 0635

As nostalgia torments
in downpour mistfully
anemoia then augments
in dankness wistfully

Yearnings seize us fistfully
churn with eerie whistle
Longings languish listfully
pounce in zinging sizzle

But why to murky feelings abide
when today awaits saddled to ride?

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-anemoia = nostalgia for a time never known; for what never existed
-listful = paying attention

edited 02/03/26 0740