
Skeltonic, or tumbling, verse.
In this form, there’s no specific number of syllables per line, but each line should be short, and should aim to have two or three stressed syllables. And the lines should rhyme.
Have I been feverish?
Glad you asked.
With this your silly soul
is tasked:
Virtue-signaling,
scowling, masked . . .
Lyrically, I’m quite
infected—
Poetically,
you’re unprotected.
Breathing in all that
fake news,
Alarmed by your own
progressive views,
your hysteria
is upsetting.
(God is absent
from your fretting.)
I Skeltonized a poem I had already written. I think I like the original better:
Poetic Protocols
♥ To KAREN, who knows who she is
Have I been feverish? Glad you asked.
Lyrically, I’m quite infected—
You, on the other hand, breathe fake news
Alarmed by your own progressive views.
With this your silly soul is tasked:
Poetically, you’re unprotected;
Virtue-signaling, scowling, masked . . .
Your hysteria is upsetting.
(God is absent from your fretting.)
Try to come up with
A daily April haiku
On Nature and stuff
