News of the Muse

This blog gets more views than usual during National Poetry Writing Month.
I enjoy checking other people’s blogs as well. Take a look at them so far.
To participate, you can submit your poetry blog HERE.

I have published 30 original poems every April for the last four years.
I am re-posting some older work during March.
You can read them by clicking on the NaPoWriMo widgets to the right ▶

 

To a Progressive Poet

Your poems read as staggered prose;
the rhythm of the words escapes you.
One assumes, un-mused, you chose
a free-verse prison to run into.

You are modern. And it shows
in lack of structure, meter, beat.
Your emperor, set free of clothes
meanders on unsteady feet

exposed as naked, fending blows
from anarch subjects bored to tears
by cryptic, existential woes
and dreary imagery. One hears

within the verbiage you compose
a load of godless free-form tripe.
The lyrical ebb achieves new lows;
the scent is somewhat over-ripe . . .

Flux Danger
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Poetic Hits

It’s fun getting a few more views per day than usual as we move toward Spring with National Poetry Writing Month. I enjoy checking other people’s blogs as well.  If you want to participate,  you can submit your poetry blog HERE.

This year, I will re-post some of my older poems during March.
I have published 30 original works every April for the last four years.

You can read them by clicking on the NaPoWriMo widgets to the right ▶

This one from 2015 gets a lot of hits
(I expect by people looking for something else
and for all the wrong reasons):

 

      Hello Porneia

Girly-girl, I feel you near . . .
thanks for stopping by (again).
You knock, then whisper in my ear
that S-word mightier than the pen.

I haven’t seen you for so long;
beholding now your rosy charms
let me let you right my wrong
within your warm and virtual arms.

Take me to that field of flowers
where the wondrous waters flow.
Temper there my raging powers—
none, save God, will know.

 

(Porneia and I go back a long way . . .  but since we broke up, our relationship is strictly Platonic)

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Mute that Trumpet


Make Amerika FAKE again
Make Babylon straight again

Make HYPOCRISY great again
Make DECADENCE late again

Make RESURGENCE wait again
Make nostalgia great again

MAKE SUBVERSION GREAT AGAIN
Make data-driven bullshit GREAT again

Make MEDIOCRITY rate again !
Make repetition GREAT again . . .

 

 (Make SHALLOW SLOGANS great again☺)