eric sundin

Ducks handle well trifle
and still take on more
Useless rants they’ll stifle
without feeling sore

For she’s your standard duck
off which water drops repel
by design – not duck’s pluck
so why should not all be well?

She just muffles her ‘victim’ quack
ignores her enabling claque
Places trust in her run-off back
does not expect any plaque

They manage well those birds of a feather
swim, fly unruffled in any weather

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When our ignorance willful
then a shortsighted stance
As excuse may be useful
still a poor traction prance

Any sensory input
if contradicts our emotion
experienced as hard put
obstacle to own promotion

A most treasonous act
to let into own domain
logic, justice & fact
so we repel with disdain

thus ducking away from Reality
while cowardly spouting hyperbole

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-willful ignorance = the practice of intentional and blatant avoidance, disregard of facts, empirical evidence and well-founded arguments because they oppose or contradict our own preferences or beliefs

edited 02/18/23 1035

On the wildfires in Australia

Parts of continent turning tinder
looks from space like single ember?
How long til residual cinder
what shall be left to remember?

Fear some day out in lonesome space
in their space craft explorer
homeless without an earthly base
will be watching in horror

Then peering out and down forsaken:
Much too late did humans awaken

edited 02/18/23 0750

Ordspråket “Borta bra men hemma bäst” är välkänt. Här föreslår jag ett nytt:

Att “borta bäst men hemma mest”
påstår sej veta vettvillingen
nu i fängsel efter arrest
sedan han stal köpeskillingen

Att göra ordspråk
även när syns förvrängt
ett brukligt anspråk
vem vet, ej så befängt?

Så kanske vi alla lätt bifaller
om ‘hemma’ menas bak grova galler?

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Comes dawn am wakening up
next to my wondrous wife
then sipping first coffee cup
still spared from thoughts of strife

At nighttime reading in bed
til nodding off, dropping the book
vigor to stay awake shred
dropping off to sleep in our nook

Fleetingly these life’s highlights
shields my heart from what benights

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Strolling, to their kids inattentive
parents seen glued to their smart phones
Swept by insidious incentive
they perform as tech-prompted clones

while unseen their kids glaring glum
pining for an attentive crumb

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How hastily they faded
the 1920s jaded!

Now roar the 2020s
optimism restoring
but in unequal plenties
with AI faith soaring

But hurricanes rage, forests burn down
with neo-Fascism on the rise
civil & economic breakdown
in cruelly volatile guise

Now misruled by kakistocracy
brought us humiliating lows
mired in horrific hypocrisy
to suffer unknowable throes

Anytime soon now The Free Fall
which we won’t be able forestall

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1920’s = the ‘roaring twenties’ with its boundless optimism about the future

edited 10/28/23 1635

A ‘Me First’ stance keeps us shielded
but locked up in insularity
might a wider scope have yielded
engaged, heartfelt solidarity?

What we don’t wish to see clearly
shall hold us back severely
If we’re sorry, regret dearly
but late for that, sincerely!

Feigning concern of the odd thing
perhaps a posting with verbal sting?
We’ll Tweet, on Facebook take a swing
but not prepared to enter the ring!

While for change with real world traction
what’s needed: Hard nosed commanders
capable of strong hands-on action
Not Twitter storms by bystanders

Like those among us effete screechers
hiding away in online bleachers

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Streets forlorn hear despair’s silent screams
By us indoors barely bemoaned
homeless plight won’t disturb our sweet dreams
Poor ‘choice’ of ‘rough sleepers’ disowned

When our hearts lack empathy & boldness
shiver its victims in dreary coldness

edited 05/24/22 1010

Society facing its undoing
sorely needed: Radical renewing

Distraction
no substitute
for action
quick, resolute

Yeah but, not that I’m inertial
leave me live my life commercial!

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