eric sundin

Cognoscenti
with their acumen
twenty-twenty
us to illumine

Daze & frazzle us, and how
to the extent we allow

How come they know what’s what
that hangs on the wall
whether it’s art or smut
better than us all?

Heeding what others claim to know
may just end up as our owned woe

edited 03/30/23 0810

Haven’t we got quite the knack
for freely shooting the breeze
for endless boorish yak
above pizza dripping cheese?

I’d rather hold out for the arcane
hoping to get bit more evolved
than being dragged down in the mundane
by someone soundly self-involved:

Spottily bit snottily
naughtily or haughtily

edited 03/26/24 1255

Spouting loud & prolific
those quips brought up galore
be they seldom specific
can still inflict ‘earsore’

As quips propound they obfuscate
do not frame for clarity
but contrarily dissipate
lack focus on verity

While attempts quatrain verse
to cut to the core
to speak sparsely & terse
Such contrary chore …

… to fit into rhymed space
with some semblance of grace

edited 04/08/24 1720

With cataclysm impending
our angst won’t be resolved
by adroitly defending
our staying self-involved

We claim cannot find the time
to oppose inequality
or bother about the clime
as we favor frivolity

Concerned more with own economy
and our fondness for gastronomy

edited 06/16/26 0700

They walk in Summer weather gorgeous beyond words (at least mine) but seems can’t refrain from ogling their smart phone screens

Roundly outsmarted by their phones
amidst billions fellow clones:

Do they watch sky’s shades of blue
listening to winds rustling leaves
while price checking household glue
or how to foil those cat food thieves?

Are their lives adhering to plans
getting soon to driving that Benz?

edited 09/07/23 0700

Talas vanlig svenska
här fortfarande?
Visst, eller kantänka
nått motsvarande?

Jo, fast tros eleganta
nya käcka uttryck
hörs snarare genanta
i allt högre ångtryck

Gör oss gråtvärdiga
som de står i ihärdigt
talar ‘Märkvärdiska’
så enträgigt å maniskt!

Med glimmande tänder
å i konstlad röst
med viftande händer
Om nu nån till tröst?

edited 04/14/24 0745

Gamla kroppar glappar
vårt förstånd likväl förstås
tills den dag vi sjappar
Händer oss alla, gunås

Men ett förlopp nåväl banalt
kan levas som jämnmods äventyr
Vårt åldrande fastän fatalt
kanske ej som slut men ouvertyr?

Tills vi bor där vi slipper jaga
å beskäftigt styra å klaga …

edited 01/20/26 0920

Think wide car tires look so cool
and who says they waste gas?
Need not make us vain a fool
or a science slack ass

Such pretense ‘rugged’ urbanity
tires aren’t simply incidental
and were they a case of vanity
how to others detrimental?

It’s not what we may actually steal
rather about how cool it makes us feel

edited 09/05/25 0740

Claiming peace of mind in ‘any’ place
such silly presumptive prattle
Sure, in cities blessed by luck or grace
be they Stockholm or Seattle

Quite another kettle of fish, uh
if in Gaza or Mogandishu?

edited 07/05/24 0850

Had thought too ingrained a pastiche
of the stolid Kingdom of Sweden
to persuade itself to unleash
from seeing itself as an Eden?

So where went that Swedish predilection
for habitual circumspection
when joining NATO without election
in such untoward genuflection?

So now just another scaremonger
beguiled by the world’s worst warmonger

+)
-election = here: plebiscite

edited 05/28/25 1750