Definedly Poetic

 

Poetry is the message, not the way it gets conveyed (SNIFF)

Do NOT make it your own (SNORT)

It’s not about saying it in a new way (HICCUP)

It’s all about a message delivered lyrically (BURP/BELCH)

Poetry is NOT about emotions recollected in tranquility (FART)

Poetry is not about pushing the boundaries of language (YAWN)

Nor is it spasmodic unburdening (AHHCHOO!)

Poetry has no militant agenda (GRUNT)

and Poetry is not about your prosaic observations (SIGH)

 

LET’S GET THAT  STRAIGHT

 

 

 

Oh yeah – almost forgot:

PROMPT #10: a hay(na)ku consists of a three-line stanza,
where the first line has one word, the second line has two words,
and the third line has three words.

Poetry
Rendered incoherent:
 godless postmodern sensibilities

Not-So-Good Friday

Pilate’s Dream

I dreamed I met a Galilean
A most amazing man
He had that look you very rarely find
The haunting hunted kind.

I asked him
To say what had happened
How it all began
I asked again
He never said a word
As if he hadn’t heard . . .

And next the room was full
Of wild and angry men
They seemed to hate this man
They fell on him and then . . . disappeared again

Then I saw thousands of millions
Crying for this man
And then I heard them mentioning my name—
and leaving me the blame.

JCSS overload

 

Lyrics: Tim Rice
Voice: Barry Dennen, original cast 1970

Inhuman Rites: Animal Husbandry

Oh Kushite muses, open wide my lips
Regardless whether blood or honey drips,
To speak against the backwardness of those
Who progress, light, and liberty oppose.
To clarify a theme of clannish wrong
While nomads move the camel-herds along.
Animal husbandry takes on new meaning:
Their brides sewn shut; their pasturelands are greening;
Sheba’s daughters cheated of their pleasure,
Despoiled through painful plunder of their treasure.

Filthy blade in hand, the crone bears witness.
The girl in terror, clueless, cut, then clitless.
As if this weren’t enough, infibulation
Ensures the bridegroom’s bloody domination.
The honeymoon brings every husband joy:
Reopening the wrapping on his toy.
Where knife or horse-whip place their gentle kiss,
There, Kushite swains deliver nights of bliss.
And nine moons later, motherhood, grown mild,
Is opened yet again by blade for child.

From Kush to Punt, on Afric’s burning horn,
Sadistic ways cause modern minds to mourn.
We wonder how this barbary was born . . .
Many Bantus, and Ishmaelites as well
Consign their birth-machines to living hell.
Explain to me how Satan sold this rite
To those who dwell in bio-sexual night?
Veiled in flesh, her godhead cast aside
Subjected to some herdsman’s wounded pride . . .
Let Kush and Punt, their glory days recall;
Their daughters drink the wormwood and the gall.

Old scars, reopened, threaten to infect
What multi-culti feminists protect.
(But no one ought to talk about such things
because of all the prejudice it brings.)