eric sundin

This verse presented itself on the occasion of my grandson Mike (21) moving to Amsterdam in Winter of 2020. (He’s since back home in Long Beach, CA).

There was this sunny surfer called Mike
who decided on a Euro hike

Amsterdam folks got elated
that they were the ones so feted

While Winter storms howled across the dyke

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-dyke = a wall built to prevent the sea or a river from covering an area, or a channel dug to take water away from an area

edited 07/12/20 0910

To Kim & Gary on their anniversary

What did echo in your ‘McMansion’
was the sound of over expansion

That huge ‘Starter Castle’
turned a life style nonstarter
Not worth all the hassle
so you did something smarter:

Found a richer bounty
in LA county

Happily you celebrate
anniversary on the beach
Setting sun, as winds abate
feels just right, spared all overreach

The golden sand between your toes
now how your ‘rugged hardship’ goes

edited 11/24/23 0940

In cowardly beat-ups
Hope hangs on the ropes
pummeled without letups
by heedless dopes

Humans are on the tightrope
while mouthing learned response
same old soap opera trope:
Escapist nonchalance

If we truly wanted out of this loop
why do we still chose this lowly to stoop?

edited 09/15/24 0840

The Kakistocrat Elite
goes for People’s jugular vein
narcissistic & effete
cutting oxygen from our brain

so we cannot think clearly
which is costing us dearly:

We let them control how we’re entertained
what frightens us, how we’re distracted
How come so casually unrestrained
when to inanity attracted?

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kakistocracy = government run by the vile & worst, least qualified and most unscrupulous people (Greek ‘kakistos’: worst)

edited 09/08/25 1740

I’ve gone bald
too often galled
mostly stalled
no longer called

Turned too old
no longer bold
feeling cold
soon now I’ll fold

and were it not for those wondrous jokes
would think life might be a horrid hoax

edited 10/06/23 1725

Donito Trumpolini
that orange odium
backbone like spaghettini
on bully podium:

Under blustering guise
of Reality no sleuth
makes up, as-he-goes, lies
Knows not much about what’s Truth

As he always needs to prevail
accordingly he trims his sails

edited 04/26/22 0920

Issues themselves furled
left for you to react
Your sneering lips curled
no need to deal in facts

Self-described as ‘optimism’
while flimsy delusion
as well a glib euphemism
for ‘gutless collusion’

Your consuming in a fool’s paradise
leaves the rest of to pay the baneful price

edited 05/17/22 1020

Claims she’s a ‘happy medium’
while seems on life’s tepid voyage lost
Self-corralled in tired tedium
chasing distraction at any cost

Too long mired in routines repetitious
to try launch any changes auspicious?

edited 10/06/24 1655

For riding mass transit
we shall deserve an award
As we don’t fancy it
must be a dollar reward

What a splendid suggestion
many may just consent
Might even ease congestion
in case fast & frequent

Foremost reigns Pecuniary
other values of an act
found largely imaginary
Don’t we agree on this fact?

Yes, all is insubstantial
unless it is financial!

edited 12/25/21 1140

With our nose on smart phone screen
wholly unrestricted
like snorting stuff up the nose
we may be ‘addicted’

Makes us feel ascendant
like anything goes
Even seem transcendent
when we’re in its throes

though just lit by the sheen
from fantasy’s flat screen

edited 12/02/25 0750