Borderline: Eight Feet to Closure

 

Poetry ought to do things right
and document reality—
but modern muses lose the fight
weaponizing identity.

Out-doing themselves, our leaders all
legitimize perversity.
Who gave them this satanic call
to demonize normality ?

In showing off their dubious worth,
the nation’s ignobility
transform to Babel all the earth
augmenting instability.

They can’t go One-World fast enough
suppressing Christianity.
Their matriarchy’s mom is tough,
enforcing femininity.

Milk of reptilian global beast:
postmodern animality
offers her withered poison breast
maintaining infantility.

They pour across. We help them in
supporting illegality;
our taxes fund their brand-new life
rewarding criminality.

 

 YOU  finish it

SOME PRE-FAB STARTERS:

re-wording historicity

furthering imbecility

fanning flammability

normalized vulgarity

shortening eternity

denying immortality

PROMPT #2: write a poem that similarly resists closure by ending on a question,
inviting the reader to continue the process of reading
(and, in some ways, writing) the poem even after the poem ends.

Persona Non Grata

(this festive traditional Central-Italian dish serves entire populations of citizens)

INGREDIENTS:

♦  faith in God
if unavailable, any stable moral-ethical framework  can be used

♦  esteem for traditional cultural values

♦  willingness to say what you think

♦  hatred of Political Correctness

1)   wake up in the morning and breathe
     rinse your mind and other ingredients well from previous day’s brain-washing

2)   refuse to believe media propaganda
      ask friends/family members to ignore mainstream media & close Facebook accounts

3)   believe that God created Man and Woman in Genesis

4)   refer to God as He
      main ingredient, beware of fire if Feminists/Genderqueer activists are near stove

5)   define family as 1 man + 1 woman joined in marriage producing children
      let ingredients simmer. Add a pinch of absolute Biblical doctrine if desired

6)   critique Cultural Marxism in ALL its manifestations (overt & disguised)

7)   dissent from the One-World Techno-Narcissist mindset
      algorithms and search-filters complement this dish, but feel free to serve it on its own

Persona Non Grata pairs well with a full-bodied Tuscan Chianti, or Montepulciano
but is especially enhanced by any vintage where the Grapes of Wrath are stored

 

 

 

Prompt #1: provide the reader with instructions on how to do something.
It can be a sort of recipe…

April makes me cringe
(all that poetry-writing
and rebirth of stuff)
IMAGE CREDIT: livingvillacappelli.com
 

 

Liberating April

She stirs in her cell, unaware she’s free

The keyboards start to click in joyous dread;

For you, O useless reader, hold the key

To rouse this sleeping prisoner from her bed.

Accustomed to her dull imprisoned state

Unused to warmth, she babbles in her cage

She fears, at first, the freedom to create;

Awakening, our muse begins to rage

Across the warming threshold into light,

She strides as verses blossom on the page

To chastise and put winter’s ghosts to flight.

The thawing wind! She shakes her golden hair

And lyric pollination seeds the air . . .