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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

 

 

 

 

Prompt #12, Limericked

Afrofuturism  (n.):

a movement in literature, music, art, etc., featuring futuristic or science fiction themes
which incorporate elements of Black history and culture

Afrania:

a Roman matron, who frequented the forum, forgetful of female decency.
(p. 58,  Lempriere’s Classical Dictionary)

Afrania, deficient in decency,
took her freak to a very high frequency.
Though not quite Cardi B,
she continues to be
the vile Roman, opposed to all quiescency.

Let’s compare and contrast: Maurice White
and his players took funk to the height
of all excellent altitude:
(Listen to Gratitude !)
Afrofuturism bright.

The perfection of Earth, Wind & Fire
shall continue to awe and inspire.
But in truth, all I see
in that foul Cardi B.
is a potty-mouth puta for hire.

In the end, Afrofuturist soul
Should consider its ultimate goal:
to alarm or inspire ?
Invite praise or satire
Of its cultural value, in whole . . .


PROMPT #12:

write a poem using at least one word/concept/idea from each of two specialty dictionaries: Lempriere’s Classical Dictionary and the Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction.

NOTES for this prompt response:

♥  EWF alight from their pods in 2022 and squirm to hear Cardi B
♠  EWF perform flawless live set
♣  Cardi WAPS them with her fake fingernails
♦  Maurice White accuses her in falsetto
♠  Parliament Funkadelic originates the sound, it degenerates to beats like a dinosaur’s autonomic nervous system

Todo Listo

Paella ingredients for Tuesday w/Hernando de T

  •    velvet + jewelry sale 
      ♣ Polish Ferdinand's scepter
  • Finance conquest of territories for glory of Catholic Spain

    • Get throne reupholstered 

♚ Subjugate inhabitants of the New World & locate gold for Imperial crown ☺

  • Leeching appointment with physician ♦ BRING ROSARY ♦!! 

♝Talk to Toledo archbishop RE: burning heretics (next Sunday)

 ♥ Get Ferdinand’s ermine robes from cleaners  ♥ ♥  ♥ 

⊕ Smite Moorish Saracens/drive out of Spain(if time before nxt weeknd)

PROMPT #9: write a poem in the form of a “to-do list.”

 

Arcana VII

I drove a chariot for Egypt’s dead gods,
obeyed decrees of an angry Pharaoh.
Vision widens where hope seems to narrow
as coral crusts the rims and axle-rods.
Submerged upon the sands my army’s host;
Erythrean currents their secrets keep.
The waters gave way, drowned me in the deep
while God led you forth toward your promised coast.
There was no choice for me, the charioteer.
A tyrant sent me forth to hunt you down;
pursuing you, I thought your end was near.
In the descent, I lost my star and crown.
My lord was false, while yours continues strong . . .
I rise from depths to further you along.

 

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