eric sundin

While us humans run around & gush
the tide rises, sets absent all rush:

Twice daily reversing
when forward surging
flows without rehearsing
by moon’s might urging

Waves rolling back & forth
never known ailing
not in sorrow or mirth
ever found wailing

Forward, retreated
To shore replete
to sea depleted:
Cycle complete

Is our human ambivalence unfeigned
perhaps as well celestially aligned?

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tide = the cyclical rise and fall of the waters of the ocean and its inlets, produced by the attraction of the moon

edited 01/04/23 1540

Current debate in Sweden indicates a need to beef up its military. Against the ‘regime change plotting’, warmongering Americans & and their hapless Allies, who have recently devastated whole countries & cultures and left untold millions dead, maimed or displaced? Oh, no! Absurdly against the Russians.

Be that as it may advanced Swedish beefing up technology that is already cutting it (pun intended) includes the Robotic Lawn Mower
http://www.husqvarna.com/us/products/robotic-lawn-mowers/

Thus patriotic Swedes are already standing up – while sitting down – against those threatening our borders, viz.:

High tech robotic
in world chaotic.
Here’s a narcotic
for the neurotic:

When deployed along one’s hedge
close up by our neighbor
we’re driving another wedge!
Rattling newest sabre!

Surely posing patriotic
though perhaps a bit quixotic?

By patrolling the lawn
we’re neither prawn or pawn,
while in deck chairs we yawn
displaying high-tech brawn.

As well are we not fortunate
strengthening community
spared gardeners importunate
with ‘RC’ impunity:

While in his or her comfy chair
slouches a Swede loaded for bear.

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-importunate = persistent in solicitation, sometimes annoyingly so
-RC = remote control

edited 09/21/19 1115

The Elite’s claims spout spurious
its logic & facts futile
Outcomes to us injurious
their domination brutal

By their jingoistic ways stirred
we ignore injustice rife
while succumbing in lives absurd
filled with suffering & strife

So why do we listen to their speeches
even cheering them on from the bleachers?!

edited 11/19/22 0840

Sitter nu som gammal
ensam i köket
sliten min själs fodral
efter livsstöket

I ungdom ointaglig
mens knäna nu svaga
ens mage obehaglig
duktig på att klaga

Har kört i samma spår
var dag in och ut
år efter snarlikt år
tills åren tar slut

Men om jag hade haft mer vett
kunde jag levt på annat sätt?

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-ointaglig = okuvlig, osårbar

edited 08/08/24 1600

Självdaltandet förvilla
hejdlös vår fåvitskhet
vad vi lyckas förspilla
i ohämmad bryskhet!

I vår förlamande feghet
saknas klarsynthetens fasthet

Stackars planets otur
vår Konsument andtruten
på enveten åktur
bland reklam oavbruten

Låter vi oss inbilla
när som rusar runt rådvilla
att lyckan en lyxvilla
när allenast en synvilla?

Jagar vi det avdragsgilla
i rättfärdigad njugghet?
Beter oss som imbecilla
i omedveten blindhet?

Mens vår ansvarskänsla vilar vindstilla
seglas vi om av de omdömesgilla

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-fåvitsk = (åld.) oklok, oförnuftig, tanklös, lättsinnig,fåkunnig
-omdömesgill = med gott omdöme, klok, förståndig, förnuftig, vettig, insiktsfull, klarsynt

edited 01/28/25 0910

Vinden susar i träden
i svanesången
På sköna cykelfärden
knastrar grusgången

Bakom sensommarn smeksam
står hösten å lurar
väntar bortom vit björkstam
med kyliga skurar

Sommarns lek känns redan skenbar
Tid snart nu för höstens allvar

edited 10/13/2026 1200

Some time ago Yana, our neighbor, emailed that “in these mean dark times my energy is momentarily diverted into a self-administrated, complete pedicure. For now I’m bettering the world one shiny toenail at a time.”, which inspired this verse:

In moral grime
election slime
among war crime:
She’s right on time!

In these mean dark days
she keeps hope ablaze
cutting through the haze
our Yana allays

Items unfurled
artistic
Rosy toes curled
yogistic

A pedicure
nail by nail
No sinecure
much travail!

Got wrongs to abolish
with elegant polish
Yana standing tallish
Evil to demolish!

edited 11/01/23 1710

In this verse speaks a ‘victim’ of the suggestion, found outrageous, that she turn vegan to mitigate and delay the impending climate collapse:

Why must I be wary?
Who says I can’t eat
either eggs or dairy
chicken, pork or meat?

My palate shall come first
must taste delicious
Though my ‘for profit’ thirst
as well ambitious!

Never mind what I like eating
won’t the planet keep rotating?

edited 03/31/23 1620

San Francisco, CA is testing urine repellent-paint on walls in areas that get a regular soaking. Anyone urinating on the specially treated walls will get the spray splashed right back onto them.

Thus warns us the wall:
Try pee on me
and I’ll pee on y’all
so hold your spree

Wall won’t prevaricate:
there shall be blow back
just try and irrigate
there shall be splash flak

Next time: There is nothing illicit
about planning a bathroom visit

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-blow back = the unintended adverse results of an action
-urine repellent walls = http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jul/26/relief-as-san-francisco-tests-out-urine-repellent-paint

edited 12/26/21 1340

General George Custer
died raiding, forlorn
Of no help his bluster
at Little Bighorn

Gone gold button luster
many men are dead
Peacock chesty Custer
what was in his head?

The hubristic quagmire:
even when not pierced by lance
the outcome sure & dire
of all empires’ arrogance

edited 10/16/24 0800