Author Archives: Chado

Wisdom calls for Prudence

 I wisdom dwell with prudence,
and find out knowledge of witty inventions.
Proverbs 8:12 [KJV]

Dear Prudence—won’t you come out to play ?
You know this world is killing you . . .
Wild horses couldn’t drag me away.

I’m going to love you each and everyday;
Eight days a week I love you;
Dear Prudence—won’t you come out to play ?

Well love is love, and not fade away.
Need your love babe, guess you know it’s true;
Wild horses couldn’t drag me away.

Everybody’s got the dues in life to pay:
A combination of judgments made by you.
Dear Prudence—won’t you come out to play ?

And my friends have lost their way . . .
Nothing to do—it’s up to you;
Wild horses couldn’t drag me away.

Dear Prudence, greet the brand new day:
(A deep dejection all the way through…)
Dear Prudence—won’t you come out to play ?
Wild horses couldn’t drag me away.


PROMPT #11

write a Villanelle that incorporates song lyrics –
ideally, incorporating them as opposing phrases or refrains.

Re-influencing Lapsed Followers Through Curated Content Enhancement Strategies

 

Cue up that curated content and watch a contented new generation of users up-rate your User-Generated Content ! The hollow fate of hate followers can be coopted for full enhancement of YOUR brand. Engage viewers instead of just viewing their engagement. Web-based virtual wedding presents can solidify a long-lasting union with potential paying followers. After all, it’s your online presence that brings them contentment by opening curated presents in real time. Virtual reality can become a real virtue IF the content is curated correctly. It comes down to screening content before you upload it, in case your followers are under a cloud, de-influenced and discontented at the lack of current content. Effective curation can enhace deep learning if content producers are willing to forego the machinations of deepfakes and instead go for machine learning metrics. Measure the level of interaction instead of merely leveling the action of enhanced interface through AI. Why wait for influences to trend if you can promote trendy influencers to collaborate with your unique content curation? Strategies for personal branding can be aligned with these curated influencer trends and will bring re-influenced followers right back to you and your content. So before you attempt to rate the actual engagement with your brand, remember: the reach of your content only extends as far as your real-time engagement rate. Don’t believe the hype… benchmark baselines can story-bump old clickbait right past the de-influencer defense and into the goal — IF the curation is there.

 

 

Tagged

Once I saw graffiti as vibrant/playful/authentic/raw/revolutionary/proletarian;

Trendy art theory’s rebellious flag.

An aspiring urban retro-funk barbarian,

(back before Hip-hop turned thug and embraced criminality)

I had my tag!

But I came to see, in time,

Ego-driven urban artistic undertakings as, simply… crime.

Defacing public and/or private property,

Whether wall, bridge, truck or train,

with cheesy ghetto graphic style coopted from aerosol-addled youth

(The spraypaint’s often shoplifted, sad truth— )

Is an ugly visual refrain.

Mark these words; tag this allegory:

Dogs also spray to mark out their territory…

Demonic smurfs, cartoon calligraphy, at best plebeian esthetic pleasures,

Cry out for Singaporean measures

Where the caning

beats explaining.

“Word up“

 


PROMPT #9

try writing a poem of your own that uses rhyme,
but without adhering to specific line lengths.

Inclusive Ghazal

It sounded good at first but went too far, their mad confusion.
Now deviants wave flags and shriek. We hear only delusion.

Social justice meets mental illness; a blind date in the street;
Mix and recombine to make a flamingly bad confusion.

These violent clowns could burn it all down and STILL they’d be enraged
As smoke clears on the rubble of their sad confusion.

The worst of all assume they had a monopoly on Progress
But the malevolent misfits only ever had confusion…

Perversity hailed as diversity, victimhood applauded;
Nations subverted and brought to a sad conclusion.

To Weimar, San Francisco, Babylon and Tel Aviv
We could certainly, at this point, make unveiled allusion…

 

 

PROMPT #8: try writing your own ghazal

Five to fifteen couplets that are independent from each other but are nonetheless linked abstractly in their theme; and more concretely by their form. And what is that form? In English ghazals, the usual constraints are that:
  • the lines all have to be of around the same length (though formal meter/syllable-counts are not employed); and
  • both lines of the first couplet end on the same word or words, which then form a refrain that is echoed at the end of each succeeding couplet.