eric sundin

Throughout history of cultures
humans have brought agony
Tearing asunder like vultures
and seldom showing mercy

Egos flare while hearts still yearn
to mire us in conflict
now getting too late to learn
to help, and not inflict

Life lost in bickering
Solidarity’s warm lights
have long been flickering
collapse nibbled, now it bites

Even with our planet crumbling
why aren’t our failings found humbling?

edited 03/08/22 1650

What’s our pleasant ‘small talk’
but schlock while lolling?
Keeps humming, spiked by squawk
boorish & galling!

Seldom turns elevating
those leisurely oozings
of whiny ventilating
self-victimized musings

Mostly regurgitating
that not much worth saying
How tiresome, aggravating
much like brainless braying!

Small talk like cloying pies
whose flavor fading hasty
Expectations belies
beyond sugar, flour pasty

Inside hooey crumbly crust
gooey, gluey filling
for which lips & taste buds lust
rarely found fulfilling

Is not small talk a pie
over which we should cry ?

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-belie = to show to be false; contradict
-hooey = silly or worthless talk, writing, ideas, etc.; nonsense

edited 04/10/24 1825

Speedy thin ice skating
a dared dalliance
Perhaps fascinating
if as vain valiance?

When our nerve endings are worn
they’ll need most frequent jolts
When in the mundane forlorn
must keep upping the volts!

You have only use for those acts
or attempts captivating
which after hyped up to its max
shall still feel scintillating

edited 06/18/22 1120

Worrying, wobbly & old
his eyes bleak, heart & body cold
Integrity long since sold
a life story not needing told

Shifty much like a sand shoal
covered with tears & mold
dark & shallow is his soul
No hope getting re-souled

Locked away in old age’s cage
stowed & forgotten backstage

edited 02/12/22 1100

Under 2014 rapporterades en del snabbköp stölder av s.k. kundpinnar.

I asocialt vansinne
bar iväg till snabbköpet
för att ‘låna’ en kundpinne
Men denna gång i stöpet …

… för på vakt med sin batong
å gömd bakom knuten
bak en hylla med buljong
med handbojor: Snuten!

Arresterad, fick böta
i orättvis rättsröta!

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kundpinne = den ‘kundavskiljare’ som lägges på bandet i kassalinjen

edited 08/05/24 0835

I glimmande sprakande lövseglande höst
slår stilla våra hjärtan i förväntan:
Våren skall sjunga igen med skimrande röst
då vi ska återse gården i gläntan

Tills dess likt svältande vilsna vargar vi yla
skälvande i vinterns obarmhärtiga kyla

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Gården i gläntan = vår gård i Västergötlands län ovan sjön Anten

edited 12/20/23 1655

Nodding ‘Yes!’ Prettily smiling
signaling how we assuage
Leaning in closely, beguiling
lying in wait to engage

Then! Rushing the podium
forcing forward tilting
engendering odium
in rendition lilting!

Boorishly we’re ‘reporting’
while other voices thwarting

By faked exchange we’re elbowing
to corral own audience
In-vogue phrases we’re echoing
promoting our prominence

Out from what frozen frustration
flows such puerile predation?

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‘reporting’ = here: often unsolicitedly to boorishly drone on with pointless & self-centered accounts of the minute & mundane

edited 10/14/2026 1015

Lacked libationary restraint
until his dignity drained
Unfazed by concern & complaint
too tightly to habit chained

Used to drain bottles full throttle
when was that kind of fellow
Now fills a hot water bottle
since he turned cold & mellow

So there, we can now credibly debunk
that the bottle per se gets us drunk

edited 04/05/24 1500

Morning dawns intently
on human ‘coming to’ fray
bleak sun rays shine gently
upon yet another day

Humans scuffle in barbarity
set for yet another drubbing
Shunning erstwhile solidarity
scurrying, our faint hearts flubbing

As scrounging swooping shrieking seagulls
fill the air with their mournful earfuls

edited 07/19/26 1050

Bubblar upp en svamlande svada
fyller lätt en rymlig lada
ej bara av Kålle å Ada
men många andra pratglada

Mången en övermodig bracka
måste uttrycka sin åsikt
så tyckes sällan sluta snacka
kärt förvissad om sin insikt

De pladdrar oinsatta i stridslystnad
enär obenägna lyssna i tystnad

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-bracka = filister, trångsynt person

edited 02/29/24 0915