Skeltonic Tonic: Prompt 16

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

Dean Braxton: Heaven

Apr16

Cardboard Flats

Apr15

Do you want to come to the Beer Store?
My five-year-old self jumped in near the wheel;
(knew I’d get a Slim Jim out of the deal . . .)
Quest for Carling Black Label: flat of twenty-four.

Mt. Auburn and Belmont fork: short trip.
The hiss pull-top can sound homeward-bound;
Offered: the cold can coming round
the shady lane corner. You want a sip ?

Beer cans have a different sort of tab nowadays;
More push-in than peel-off. What I will never do:
Hand a cold can to an underage son. True,
he was just being nice. Nineteen-sixties ways . . .

Google Earth shows me where the store used to be:
“Father and Son Floorcraft”, which seems funny to me.

PROMPT #15:

think about a small habit you picked up from one of your parents,
and then to write a piece that explores an early memory of your parent engaged in that habit,
before shifting into writing about yourself engaging in the same habit.

Poetry Review: Imperfect Caucasus

Apr14

Pub Date: October 2020 (Uptight Press)

“Sven Olaf-Lefkowitz has composed a searing ode to fatherhood, to Love’s psychic penance, to the Pop-rock armies of ABBA, refracted through a studied dissonance; intentionally national in voice and Viking-unconventional in its sub-arctic and visionary chill. Imperfect Caucasus is a frigid lullaby, a cosmic sleigh-ride of whiteness that glistens in the frozen space between Midwestern promise and the place where “love is always a Nordic lady / calling upon Odin.” —Karl Elihu Ellefsen.

“‘I have have sought to intoxicate the sober,’ Sven Olaf-Lefkowitz says in ‘Warrior of Mead,’ and he could be deconstructing his own work: predictably subversive while ascending the heights as real poetry is expected to do.
This is a collection full of compassionate rage and deft control of dialect.” —Jaroslav Maria Szysek

“These verses are rough-shod, as well as sly and quixotic. They are as pale as a waning moon or the Northern lights.
You’ll find lunar witchcraft in these works by Sven-Olaf Lefkowitz. You’ll find strong untruths.” —Kirsten B. Dungeoness, author of Banana Republicans

In the strong and celebratory poems of Imperfect Caucasus , Sven Olaf-Lefkowitz expands the claims of authentic fatherhood in a post-Eurocentric context, decentralizing White patriarchy by intentional commodification through absurdity. Olaf-Lefkowitz chants in the mead-hall of poetic genesis, abrogating all claims of the status quo, stunningly brave in his lyric demolition/creation. Tree-felling, reindeer-breeding, even pig-slaughtering are warm prey to Olaf-Lefkowitz’s falcon eye. Whether intoning his grief for fallen heroes while birthing his own poetic drum-circle or contemplating whiteness across a winter wilderness, these poems offer a laxative to constipated lyrical flow.

CONNECT/HOOK

POETIC FLUX

Skeltonic Tonic: Prompt 16

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.

I Skeltonized a poem I had already written. I think I like the original better:

♥ To KAREN, who knows who she is

Try to come up with
A daily April haiku
On Nature and stuff

Dean Braxton: Heaven

Cardboard Flats

PROMPT #15:

think about a small habit you picked up from one of your parents,
and then to write a piece that explores an early memory of your parent engaged in that habit,
before shifting into writing about yourself engaging in the same habit.

Poetry Review: Imperfect Caucasus

Pub Date: October 2020 (Uptight Press)

Imperfect Caucasus preview is available from http://www.uptightdownload.org

ORDER PDF EBOOK $6.66 ISBN: 727-0-8!42-8099-1

Review: Ogwidth Rain Village
MFA Program Chairperson
Hennepin Homebrew University, MN

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.

I Skeltonized a poem I had already written. I think I like the original better:

♥ To KAREN, who knows who she is

Try to come up withA daily April haikuOn Nature and stuff

PROMPT #15:

think about a small habit you picked up from one of your parents, and then to write a piece that explores an early memory of your parent engaged in that habit, before shifting into writing about yourself engaging in the same habit.

Pub Date: October 2020 (Uptight Press)

Imperfect Caucasus preview is available from http://www.uptightdownload.org

ORDER PDF EBOOK $6.66 ISBN: 727-0-8!42-8099-1

Review: Ogwidth Rain Village MFA Program Chairperson Hennepin Homebrew University, MN

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.

Try to come up with
A daily April haiku
On Nature and stuff

think about a small habit you picked up from one of your parents,
and then to write a piece that explores an early memory of your parent engaged in that habit,
before shifting into writing about yourself engaging in the same habit.

Review: Ogwidth Rain Village
MFA Program Chairperson
Hennepin Homebrew University, MN