One of my flarf poems titled “Patella is Latin for Kneecap” has been accepted for publishing at Spillwords.com. They said they will contact me again in about a month to give me the date when my poem will be published.
Month: May 2022
Grass Blades—Haiku
Grass blades toward the sky
Like an army charging out
Swords over their heads.
Harvesting the Angels Share—Free Verse
Whether by accident of fate
Or some minor genetic variation,
One in a row of cabbage
Was sacrificed to the worms
Broad leaves tattered like scraps of sail
Forgotten in the sun and wind.
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A free verse poem has no set pattern for line or stanza length. Rhyme is not used, or it is used sparingly. The line length and the rhythm or the lines are dictated by the natural rhythm of speech or other concerns such as emphasis on a particular word, image, or idea.
But That’s Just the Icing on the Cache—Flarf
It is possible to have a bore condition
In the slow smoke and smolder
The problem is the bore is hard to photograph
Looking into the muzzle of some sort of light show
Icing black rifles in blue percentage
.
You know the frosting tip used
To decorate cakes and cupcakes
Also known as gray staining,
Micro spalling, or frosting
.
Well, this little tip
E.g., pitting, frosting,
Strength of rifling, what’s between the lands
Works wonders for pitting cherries.
.
But still,
Back to the basic question of
Are frosting and pitting basically the same?
.
However described, frosting and pitting
Effect the overall description
Like royal frosting
That pitted after it dried
.
Yeah, you run the risk of bubbles
And overbeaten frosting for cakes or cookies
But frosting and pitting in a gun bore
Are the same but perhaps to different degrees
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FLARF is a wild style of poetry that started as a joke. People noticed that no matter how bad your poems were Poetry.com would tell you that you had won their poetry prize. Then, they would try to scam you out of your money. So devious poets started sending the crappiest poetry they could write to Poetry.com. Even that would win the poetry prize. These poets began sending each other their crappy poems, and eventually it became a legitimate poetry style. If you want to read more about the FLARF or any of the other poetry terms, check out the glossary of poetic terms from the Poetry Foundation at: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/learn/glossary-terms Google painting is a type of collaging that primarily uses internet search results and Google’s search prediction capabilities to generate quasi-random phrases. The technique helps jumpstart creativity with strange juxtapositions, broken syntax, and internet speak.
The Secret Society of Merkin Merchants—Flarf
You have proven that you have the right
To know what we know about Shimmel Zohar
Feeding largely on carrion birds in flight
And other things that live where the crows are
.
The white socks wearing magic merkin magician
Teaching sex after lifetimes of despair
Living life like a passenger pigeon
Covered in fading heaven solitaire
***
FLARF is a wild style of poetry that started as a joke. People noticed that no matter how bad your poems were Poetry.com would tell you that you had won their poetry prize. Then, they would try to scam you out of your money. So devious poets started sending the crappiest poetry they could write to Poetry.com. Even that would win the poetry prize. These poets began sending each other their crappy poems, and eventually it became a legitimate poetry style. If you want to read more about the FLARF or any of the other poetry terms, check out the glossary of poetic terms from the Poetry Foundation at: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/learn/glossary-terms Google painting is a type of collaging that primarily uses internet search results and Google’s search prediction capabilities to generate quasi-random phrases. The technique helps jumpstart creativity with strange juxtapositions, broken syntax, and internet speak.
How to Animate an Empty Suit—Flarf
Ashamed to think
There is my duplicate
The patchwork of success and failure
Aligned in rows
.
My duplicate being
The puppet of some other master
Correcting forward head posture
Filled as the stone gathers dust
.
My duplicate being
Who filed a public petition
For all professional wrestlers
To name their submission holds
Variant forms of Covid Lockdowns
.
My duplicate being
Who strives
To bring duplicate bodies under control
Or break them in the pages of the bible
.
My duplicate being
Who defines himself
Within the pages
Of the strong man dictionary
As weak and mailable as the wind
***
FLARF is a wild style of poetry that started as a joke. People noticed that no matter how bad your poems were Poetry.com would tell you that you had won their poetry prize. Then, they would try to scam you out of your money. So devious poets started sending the crappiest poetry they could write to Poetry.com. Even that would win the poetry prize. These poets began sending each other their crappy poems, and eventually it became a legitimate poetry style. If you want to read more about the FLARF or any of the other poetry terms, check out the glossary of poetic terms from the Poetry Foundation at: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/learn/glossary-terms
Google painting is a type of collaging that primarily uses internet search results and Google’s search prediction capabilities to generate quasi-random phrases. The technique helps jumpstart creativity with strange juxtapositions, broken syntax, and internet speak.
The Intersectional Plains Outside of Life—Flarf
And in submission
The forward act
Of something
.
Something moving
Something forward
.
The moving something
The duplicates
Longer under control
Changing with bodies
.
In brown straw
From pines
That lap softly against
And down
.
The action or fact of accepting or yielding
To female lockdown effects
***
FLARF is a wild style of poetry that started as a joke. People noticed that no matter how bad your poems were Poetry.com would tell you that you had won their poetry prize. Then, they would try to scam you out of your money. So devious poets started sending the crappiest poetry they could write to Poetry.com. Even that would win the poetry prize. These poets began sending each other their crappy poems, and eventually it became a legitimate poetry style. If you want to read more about the FLARF or any of the other poetry terms, check out the glossary of poetic terms from the Poetry Foundation at: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/learn/glossary-terms
And You Wonder Why You don’t Hate Camping—Free Verse
To wake up several times at night
On the ground.
.
To listen to the sounds of rooting animals
Outside the fabric walls.
.
To be trapped in a sleeping bag
Both too hot and too cold.
.
To wake up grumpy and tired
With the sun.
.
To sit in a camp chair trying to rekindle
Last night’s fire.
.
Until you hear the tent zipper pull
And see your child’s smiling face.
***
A free verse poem has no set pattern for line or stanza length. Rhyme is not used, or it is used sparingly. The line length and the rhythm or the lines are dictated by the natural rhythm of speech or other concerns such as emphasis on a particular word, image, or idea.
Sometimes We Love to Scream in Pain—Flarf
Sadism makes drivers scream
A signal in your nervous system
Nightmare booster painting the scream
Screaming out in pain out of nowhere
Describing someone passing out in the rain
It was like my thigh was trying to have a baby
.
Arthritis pain
Chronic wound pain
Hernia pain
Limb pain
.
Many people scream out in pain
A heartbroken community grieves
Pleading guilty to visiting a chiropractor
Finding moments of pain amid joy
.
Screaming releases endorphins into the body
Time for the next drug dose
You are a critical part of your scream’s success
Bad lumbar punch
I could hear a voice screaming
.
Vicodin, Percocet
Neurontin, Lyrica,
Topamax, and Tampax radiant pearl
.
When data is accidentally exposed
Emotions have protective functions
That is for survival
***
FLARF is a wild style of poetry that started as a joke. People noticed that no matter how bad your poems were Poetry.com would tell you that you had won their poetry prize. Then, they would try to scam you out of your money. So devious poets started sending the crappiest poetry they could write to Poetry.com. Even that would win the poetry prize. These poets began sending each other their crappy poems, and eventually it became a legitimate poetry style. If you want to read more about the FLARF or any of the other poetry terms, check out the glossary of poetic terms from the Poetry Foundation at: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/learn/glossary-terms Google painting is a type of collaging that primarily uses internet search results and Google’s search prediction capabilities to generate quasi-random phrases. The technique helps jumpstart creativity with strange juxtapositions, broken syntax, and internet speak.
Finding the Importance of Learning—Flarf
My streaming gem
Is buffering
Is lagging
Is it possible it
Issues from The Tonight Show
Where ‘is’ is a verb and ‘is’ has meaning
Where I have been taught
Where it is you are is.
.
And other people’s words say
And other people’s moneys say
And other people’s clothes say
And other people’s children say
.
I have been taught the speech of birds.
I have been taught high quality examples.
I have been taught light economic needs.
I have been taught faded things written on wooden signs.
I have been taught that education is for other people.
***
FLARF is a wild style of poetry that started as a joke. People noticed that no matter how bad your poems were Poetry.com would tell you that you had won their poetry prize. Then, they would try to scam you out of your money. So devious poets started sending the crappiest poetry they could write to Poetry.com. Even that would win the poetry prize. These poets began sending each other their crappy poems, and eventually it became a legitimate poetry style. If you want to read more about the FLARF or any of the other poetry terms, check out the glossary of poetic terms from the Poetry Foundation at: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/learn/glossary-terms Google painting is a type of collaging that primarily uses internet search results and Google’s search prediction capabilities to generate quasi-random phrases. The technique helps jumpstart creativity with strange juxtapositions, broken syntax, and internet speak.
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