Author Archives: Chado

Haiku Leftovers

Just cause I wrote it
doesn’t make it haiku, or
even readable.
Poetry is dead.
Poetry rots in its tomb.
Poetry rises.
Sufis and Taoists
meditating while they’re drunk
contemplating . . . wine.
Zen haiku trashcan:
paused to throw out an image
and kill the Buddha.
I alone, a god
raise high the bleeding trophy:
Haiku’s severed head.
In the pale moonlight,
old pine leans over water
and it’s all Trump’s fault.
Basho-san, master,
the frog has leapt long ago
it was green as Kek.

 

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Limericks for Sawako

 

That Japanese thing about ants:
Yoko Ono (but worse) at first glance,
Is an improvisation
Producing frustration
In readers, when given a chance…

 

I was hoping to find a bit more
In Sawako’s ridiculous Score;
But her total is zero,
This scribbling hero—
Her poem was truly a bore.

 


Here’s our daily prompt. Sawako Nakayasu’s poem Improvisational Score is a rather surreal prose poem describing an imaginary musical piece that proceeds in a very unmusical way.   Today, try your hand at writing your own poem.

Inclusivity Training

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Oh beautiful for specious lies
Where Christless values reign;
For superficial battle cries
Above the muted strain:
Diversity, diversity
God hides His face from thee—
And frown he should, while planethood
Distracts humanity.

How sad it is when victim groups
Monopolize the floor;
Enabling the marginals
To agitate for more.
Diversity, diversity,
Your queer agenda rules—
With Balkanizing tendencies
Imposed on witless tools.

Degenerate in decadence
The ailing eagle flies;
In spirals of irrelevance
Through clouded toxic skies.
Diversity, diversity
The Left defines your terms;
Our weakened body politic
Grows sicker as it squirms.

Oh God, we need a miracle
Before the patient fails;
Celestial intervention please
To purge us of what ails.
Diversity, diversity
We shall not overcome—
Unless the Lord reveal  His word
‘Twixt here and Kingdom Come.

 

 


PR⊕MP✟ 20:

write a poem informed by musical phrasing or melody, that employs some form of soundplay (rhyme, meter, assonance, alliteration). One way to approach this is to think of a song you know and then basically write new lyrics that fit the original song’s rhythm/phrasing.