eric sundin

Dragoons galloped in the Light Brigade
‘led’ by incompetence, stupidity
Now another mind-boggling ‘crusade’
this one in commercial avidity:

Likewise is ‘ours not to wonder why’
when charging in endless cupidity
Ours is just to swipe the card to buy
‘alive’ while wilting in flaccidity

When allowing inane marketing lead us astray
in cowardly expediency we hide away

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From poem ‘The Charge of the Light Brigade’ by Alfred Tennyson about the 1853 Battle of Balaclava during the Crimean War. The British light cavalry charged, due to its leader’s stupidity & incompetence, on a frontal attack right into the lowered muzzles of Russian artillery. Hence for the dragoons: “Theirs not to reason why. Theirs but to do and die”

Edited 06/11/25 2020

I dessa tider
blir det Oss Bortskämda
som också lider
nedstämda, beklämda

Tidigare oförskämda
malligt, barnsligt högstämda
Numer passande förgrämda
när likt andra vettskrämda

Låt oss raskt å ärligt bli försonade
med att vi ej längre blir förskonade

edited 02/07/24 0835

Gammal, modfälld omgiven
av dödstankar på fjärran kust
känner jag mej uppriven
från en oersättlig förlust

Fylld av mörk, förtvivlad ånger
att jag svek hemlandets sånger

Men har börjat finna tröst
när på jordelivets tilja
hörs en förledande röst:
Saknar vi månntro fri vilja?

edited 09/12/25 0800

***%) If stuck in Quatrain’s throes just change lanes to ‘loose reins’ Prose!

Know chimERIC?
Yes, him: Grim
mean dim Eric
slim, bit prim?

Adverse to prose
stuck on verse?
Yes, kind of those
with rhymes terse

But if finding his Quatrain too arcane
who stops you switching to Prose’s loose reins lane?

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-chimeric = something hoped for but illusory or impossible to achieve
-chimERIC = someone hopeless & impossible named Eric
-quatrain = verse as above in four line strophes rhyming 1-3 & 2-4 (plus here a two line ‘punch line)

edited 06/07/24 1435

Back then:
“When the going got tough the tough got going”

These days:
When the going just feels tough
us cowards start shooing!
Watch us hiding in a huff
in inaction stewing

We’ve been indulging in such ‘quick-fix’ galore
since long and so far in 2024

edited 07/25/24 0845

Ödet knastnar på grusgången
dundrar:”Färdigskrutit å rutet!”
Raspigt, svagt svamlas svansången
blev genomdränkt det sista krutet

Plägade stolt hålla den högt
hoppets häftigt flammade fackla
Numera uttröttad arm krökt
sen viljekraften börjat vackla

Rättfärdigt att vi ringaktas för vårt pjosk
mens letar efter nattöppen korvkiosk

edited 07/29/24 1340

Every regret’s ember
glows intractably
dooms us to remember
all implacably

Untamed thoughts glowering
in profanity
fanning wild flames, scouring
our past anomie

Still youth’s memories torrential
of innocent revelry
wondrous blessings existential
replays in warm reverie

edited 01/27/25 1820

Blown in Twitter storm
amidst benign bloopers
howling locust swarm
of goosestep storm troopers

Under guise of virus relief
they’re bent on making the sky darken
up to their usual mischief
hoping we’re too busy to harken

The Power Elite doesn’t work for our protection
nevertheless we whimper in genuflection

edited 05/17/22 0850

Had he only readied tests
before the virus pounced
would we be in ‘house arrests’?
Life as we knew it trounced?

While for scientists problematic
since turned inept & erratic
by boastful meddling trumplematic
while his base cheers on ecstatic!

Of such noble creed & greed
how come ‘leadership’ lackluster?
Why won’t this Virus pay heed
to blaming, bully & bluster?

edited 04/26/22 0925

Ung å glad vår David
fann sin livsstil populär
de va innan COVID
så numera sisådär

Likt andra som ej fyllt nitton
i sitt unga liv försmådd
fått betala utan kvitton
av oss äldre fegt förrådd:

Vi grumlade om livet grymt å urtrist
när vi borde ha ordnat till det rättvisst

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David = här: en betecknande ung person, som har rätt att vänta sej bättre

edited 04/20/22 0910