eric sundin

While close calamity
and perhaps perverse
trying for amity
be it just in verse

Crisp sentences custom made
(none lifted off the rack)
bring forth verbal serenade
that rises beyond yak

Still wouldn’t presume to impart verity
which these days too much of a rarity

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yak = gab, chatter

edited 03/24/23 0855

To bourgeois way he lives contrarious
prefers his days with crowd gregarious

Blåsut found fine just ain’t Campania
and nowhere a place like Scania

Let’s his old man live life vicarious

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-Campania = a region of southwestern Italy on the Tyrrhenian Sea including the islands of Capri and Ischia
-Scania = Skåne, the southernmost region of Sweden

edited 02/20/24 0815

We’re told that granddaughter Ellie, on a NYC field trip, craved tasting a ‘real’ bagel. While waiting in line (snaking half-around-the-block) to Katz’s Deli she ‘elliequently’ burst out: “Is this place any good?”

“Did she sweetly get nervous
fearing that the long wait
was just due to slow service
not bagels being great?”

The other year Ellie visited the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem, and is said to have made this ‘ellitist’ remark:

“Well, it’s wholly holy
but of modest scale
in height rising lowly
but go ahead: wail!

So that’s all:
an old wall?”

On the same NYC trip as when Ellie snaked around Katz’s she also visited Wall Street, and perhaps congruently she reflected:

“Be it where they scam & cheat
where displaying grim gall:
Just another city street
lacking parking. That’s all!”

She’s the Katz’s meow!
O Bella, ciao!

edited 11/28/21 0645

Searching for encouraging sparks
hoped-for bright lights of starkness
ambience like that of Denmark’s
but finding massive darkness?

Fast fading embers
false hollow hope
no one remembers
least the myope

Dreams of a loving utopia
long since turned shoving dystopia

edited 02/20/24 1100

Self-driven technology
becoming article of faith
dogmatic theology
while implementation the wraith

Letting automation thrive
as we watch, indulged til cockeyed?
While cars built as fun to drive
we’ll be along just or the ride!

Though would we not get relieved
wildly keeping on high-fiveing
when this techno-fix achieved
no one gets fined for drunk driving

While slack-jawed we praise high-tech as The Solution
aren’t there saner paths of human evolution?

edited 06/08/22 1710

Han är nog en
‘hej å skål!’ lymmel
som till krogen
en annan lämmel

När förhoppningar går skeva
som flyr in i berusningen vrå
klarar ej i ångest leva
men kanske ej så svårt att förstå?

Finner väl ett ögonblick av lättnad
mens i spriten upplevs aldrig mättnad

edited 02/27/25 0750

While we all shall need fuel
nature herself is cruel:

Watch that sweet bunny
happy, hopping around
It’s warm and sunny
Growl! By predator ground!

While a human who is carnivore
may have a good deal to answer for

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ground = here: between the teeth of a predator

edited 01/20/22 0805

To be spared from finding
days mostly a bore
that tedious grinding
we’d like to ignore!

To be freed from those churnings
(without guilty blushing)
of inadequate earnings
instead blithely gushing:

lulled on the waves of the Internet
letting us caught in its vast driftnet

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driftnet = a vast, floating ‘catch-em-all’ fishing net

edited 09/24/23 0710

Någon udda känsla
flyktiga grunda tankar
när tvehågsen grensla
aldrig få kasta ankar

Om vi eftersträvar sans
bör vi nog besinna
att varje tillfällig chans
skall närhelst försvinna

Bäst att andas ut fantasins luft
å andas in vardagens förnuft

edited 01/07/24 0835

Impending climate collapse
worsened by inequality
hastening Cold War relapse
by ironclad causality

In these times so off-centered
(insight hereof hardly arcane)
we indulge lives self-centered
cowardly, not caring, inane

But then courage and compassion
these days severely on ration

edited 07/10/23 1820