eric sundin

Humans selfishly devolved
into self-absorbed, complacent
Of obligations absolved
only sparingly complaisant

Turned inconsiderate, smug
Unless there’s something gained
barely a glance or a shrug
towards others deigned

Cluelessly protesting: “We’re blameless!”
Conniving, scheming, seeming shameless

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-complacent = to feel very pleased with themselves or not needingto do anything about a situation
-complaisant = obliging, accommodating, polite, conciliatory

edited 10/30/23 1740

So tingly tactile:
tripping on an anthill
dancing a quadrille
working in a steel mill

Instead we vainly preen:
leaned on the Net’s crutch
as watching on a screen
keep us out of touch

Yet we butt in prone to pronounce – come on!
although we know so little from hands-on!

edited 03/30/24 0805

Much of essence can’t be understood
solely by verbal explaining
of Hollywood films, of Womanhood
or automotive retraining

Still insight can happen unasked
and even instantly grasped
finding ourselves jolted aghast
wholly captivated, gasped

So don’t just cowardly sit out a dance
as it may offer us a wondrous chance!

edited 03/07/25 1050

Hamnade på dess västkust
av en nation hejdlös
Fylld av oändlig olust
över kultur skamlös

I livets höst
(förstås ‘senvinter’)
tröttnat min röst
mens sinne slinter

Färdigrutit
förbrukat krutet
Färdigskrutit
går snabbt mot slutet

Väskan packad, iförd resdräkt
förnimmer Förtröstans vindfläkt

edited 10/13/22 0930

Is a claim of upstanding
while flimsy, most musty
kept alive by grandstanding
with bogus modesty?

While who knows what lurks
in our subliminal
perhaps shirks & smirks
some intrigues criminal?

Or are we just one of many liars
amongst precious few truthful outliers?

edited 05/21/23 1705

Senatorial behavior during the Kavanaugh Supreme Court nomination hearing inspired this verse.

Such puffed up buffoons!
Poltroons in a war dance!
Aspired, failed tycoons?
Leaves us looking askance

Hearings in judicial committee
lair of panicked male chauvinism
where senators spray sick graffiti
ominous of neo-fascism

Misogyny in harsh light
shining unsparingly bright

edited 10/19/22 1405

On the occasion of Matt(eo), while staying in Tuscany, visiting Venice. What a Paisan!

Inside a shop in Peccioli
nestled in tight an alleyway
was Matteo munching cannoli?
No, on a Venice getaway!

Deserted hoi polloi
for glitterati
Smoothly he would deploy
with literati

where acing Palazzo dinners
with dizzying crowd of winners

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-paisan(o) = someone, here our son Matt(eo), who understands the significance of simply being Italian
-Palazzo dinner = https://quintessenceblog.com/inside-venice

edited 06/07/22 1110

Rimlig möjlighet
att den arma dikten
i dess tafatthet
börjat tappa svikten

Språkdräkt uddlös
i en vers virrig
flyter viskös
när skalden stirrig

som tror sej sjuk när snuvig
trots att han endast nös
livstigen upplevs tuvig
av vekling diktarknös

Mens Gustaf Tholl sjöbefäl
i handfast ‘böljlighet’
han tålde inga svepskäl
ej nånsin böjlighet!

Framför allt var Plikten
för ett Havets Trygga Salt
av den största vikten
ägnade sej ej åt dalt!

För rejält att sköta sjökort
mens skriva vers välan tillgjort

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-böjlighet = vekhet
-böljlighet = (påhitt) förmågan att föra sitt fartyg över havets stormiga böljor
-Gustaf Tholl = min morfar, en högst kapabel å tillförlitlig sjökapten
-Salt = här: en befaren, erfaren äldre sjöman

edited 05/13/23 1050

My worn mind kept on churning
jaws clenched in face paling
ears & cheeks hotly burning
relived every failing

I could not bear in time left
to be held captive by The Past
Then, at last, found strength to heft
rebelling in long suppressed blast!

Since been taming The Past iniquitous
The Now been blossoming ubiquitous

edited 05/24/25 0550

Vållar förståsigpåare
flaggan gul å blåare?
Oss starkare än sjåare
senhöstkvällen gråare?

Efter bristfällig daning
fastslår de vad som bör göras
fast själva saknar aning
vilken brödsida som smöras!

Så duktiga att hyckla å gyckla
så länge de själva slipper cykla!

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-daning = fostran, bildning, utbildning
-förståsigpåare = här: besserwisser

edited 09/01/24 1005