eric sundin

The sibilant sound of a ripe apple falling off the tree is amplified in the perfect stillness of our Anten homestead:

Sweet apple in its ripe prime
nature’s rites elegant
Summer brings on its show time
wordlessly eloquent!

When weighed down by their sap
apples’ tender stems snap

They drop in sound sibilant
flight paths most fleetingly
in wind stirred up jubilant
with apple subtlety

Amidst silence distinctly
a falling apple’s thud
shall be echoed succinctly
as well on grass as mud

Every Summer’s wondrous story
no event purely perchance
but of perfect trajectory
part of Nature’s flawless dance

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-Anten = a small community by the lake with the same name near Alingsås

edited 03/29/25 1110

Vaggande på höften
Neoliberalismen
med dess lömska löften
bjuder upp Konsumismen:

till en dans vi glatt strömma
fast vår välfärd skakar
kanske låter oss glömma
att klimatet knakar

Så lever vi en travesti
om än i kramsfylld frosseri

edited 08/04/24 0820

De var då själva fanken
otroligt generöst
Av den flotta omtanken
blir man helt överöst!

Men att vackra ord ersätta
(smicker hur än begärligt)
med gripbar handling förrätta
blir väl oftast besvärligt?

Krävs förstås mera för att agera
än med muntlig sympati briljera!

edited 02/09/24 1550

Like mice scurrying away
off to work & shopping
we’d like all to be OK
with daily fun, whopping!

In our dream house til the bell shall knell
often in neighborhood select
Many a mouse thinks they’ve chosen well
though stuck in a mousing project

Now, ain’t life such a cheerful thrilla
in our so chichi cheesy villa!

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chichi (shee-shee) = showily or affectedly elegant or trendy; pretentious

edited 10/22/23 1640

Sun rays gleaming, bolting through
streaked clouds down to foaming sea blue
Sandy crescents fade below
shimmer in nostalgia’s hue

Our turbulence shook plane is winging West
giving for now Baltic folklore a rest …

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sandy crescents = here: white sandy sweeping, curving beaches of the Latvian coast

edited 05/21/22 2055

Ja, det går fint på vissa vis
fastän de skjövlar skogen
I privatiseringens dis
skålas det sen på krogen!

Så far de nu efter flärden
det va ju knapert förrut
och efterapar Västvärlden
i hoppfulla glädjetjut

Hade trott de funnit nått djupare
än att bli våra kålsupare?

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kålsupare = en av samma betänkliga sort; här: lika goda neoliberalistiska kålsupare

edited 12/19/23 0740

Västvindens envetna kulingar
blåser nu över Rigas bukt
Sveper in vissa slags fulingar
med projekt som har stormaktslukt

Neo-liberala Riga
för elitvinster stenhård
Ständigt de bråka o kriga
i stirrigt rysskräck ackord

Det vimlar tack o lov av turister
men också storfinansens ligister

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ackord = here: samstämmighet, samklang

edited 08/31/25 1235

Her doctor advised her to stay off dairy. She stayed off cheese and milk but as she loves butter she expeditiously declared butter a ‘non-dairy’ product:

Her ‘bright new world’ discounts science
as too stodgy a reliance

With single-mindedness utter
she declares it non-dairy
and goes on indulging butter
Handy to let facts vary!

Thanks, Non-Dairy Cow
all much butter now!

edited 07/24/24 1500

Am edging close to my life’s rim
blurred in opaque sketchiness
am hobbling on aging’s path dim
cobbled with much pettiness

That which lies beyond the mundane
sensed by the soul, knows not the brain

edited 07/03/24 1745

Aren’t facts just too complicated, taking too much time & effort to uncover & verify? Do I need anyone to tell me what MY facts should be? Surely, fairer & easier for each of us just to make them up as we need them:

Read about them in the tabloids
plied by ‘anything goes’ hacks
Elsewhere commonly called factoids
dressed up as we need them ‘facts’

The Net thrills in profligacy
of excitement refulgent
Be it doubtful efficacy
enabling those indulgent

Who’s got guts to be resolute
sort out all that’s annoying
in these our sweet times dissolute
brimmed with the innate, cloying?

Hence we spill what pops into mind
as insight of reflected kind!

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-factoid = an item of unreliable information that is reported and repeated so often that it becomes accepted as fact
-facts = “Factual evidence, since it is an impediment to what we desire, is banished.” – Chris Hedge
-profligacy = shameless dissoluteness; reckless extravagance
-refulgent = shining brightly; radiant

edited 10/02/23 1040