eric sundin

A people’s contention
elite harshly circumscribes
by sternest convention
to inhibit ‘diatribes’

Power elite unsightly
never brooks true order:
We must submit contritely
to their own disorder

The elite bombards us with dubiety
pretending they’re acting with propriety

edited 11/10/23 1055

Sure we have our druthers
so let’s disaffect:
Who cares about others
why be circumspect?

No need genuflect
steel yourself brash
Ignore self-respect
live life slapdash!

Don’t any attempts to be kind
end up putting us in a bind?

edited 06/14/24 0945

As loosen my Life’s moorings
I watch flowers unceasingly
awake in early mornings
my awe deepens increasingly

Long since I sailed close to capsize
on choppy seas of rancor
Now til blurry shores of demise
not long til weighing anchor

Until comes such time, veiled in mystery
striving to live now, not in history

edited 10/22/23 0700

Our poor Earth worn
since long turn leery
from too much scorn
by humans dreary

Sure looking up?
Nary hope
we’re in pileup
you dim dope!

So do look ahead
to soon dropping dead!

edited 10/03/23 1705

Aren’t we under the illusion
that we’re running our own show
carried on with much effusion
presuming only we know?

We’re sitting in the cockpit
but not at the controls!
So best forget about it
there exist no loopholes

Us humans eagerly claim to have a ‘free will’
while getting nowhere on Universe’s treadmill

editing 09/09/24 1055

Mångt blitt vrångt
Livet, vet hut!
Gått för långt
Nog nu, ta slut!

Nätet knökat med strunt
Barn å hund korpulenta
Tankeutbyte grunt
Kändisar dekadenta

Likväl alltid opportunt
att öka sin sedelbunt!

edited 07/06/24 0740

Often beyond dispute:
‘mind over matter’
while futile when acute
our aging bladder:

It obeys no command.
If swollen prostate
we shall suffer firsthand
from faulty floodgate.

I used to get into a flap
if no close-at-hand barroom
was displayed on my travel map.
Now if no nearby bathroom.

edited 06/12/20 1610

Aren’t we callow
lacking mature depth?
Even shallow
while pretending breadth?

Pointless to be concerned
as in these times who’d listen?
Haven’t most of us adjourned
to Self-Absorption’s Prison?

Reducing each other to appurtenant
make others’ concerns at best impertinent

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-appurtenant = relating to something that is added but is not essential
-breadth = an ability to address a broad range of issues

edited 08/10/2026 1530

How do such s**t hole nations
scrounge up their silly gall
at their poor, lowly stations
to carry on & bawl?

They’re deemed easily exterminable
despairing of survival choices
while Empire’s clamor interminable
in raucous warmongering voices

Claim feverish minds conceptional
perpetually so in vogue:
“U.S. Nation is Exceptional!”
While it’s Herself who’s going rogue

In the end Empire turns effete
and cruelly goes astray
beats a long overdue retreat
hits cataclysm, fades away

Until such time keeps up Her harsh harangue
on Moscow, Tehran, Beijing & Pyongyang

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-going rogue = here: a state that does not respect international laws, treaties and agreements, and engages in unprovoked indiscriminate warfare
-s**t hole nations = quote by Trump

edited 01/08/24 1610

Blir väl oftast att småprata
om tidsfördriv å senaste grej?
Av annat blev vi för lata
gömmer oss helst i genant ståhej

Men för upp klimatförsämring
bland livets stora frågor
å hopp om samhällsförändring:
då blåser upp chockvågor!

Fast en del synes bekymrade
andra rentav indignerade

edited 01/03/24 1710