Stone Soup Croutons is a weekly poem I write using lines and impressions picked from Stone Soup Poetry's open mic readers and features. I figure out a title (and sometimes the rest of the poem) later. You can read the other ones I've done since 2015 here.
I also have a book out now collecting the best of my first year of poems. Click here to purchase it.
Stone Soup was back this Wednesday. I know there won't be features for the rest of the month, but I'm not so sure there'll be open mics leading up to the end of the year. A lot is happening, and anything I do could be cancelled at the last minute. I'm taking it one day at a time.
Might as well get my holiday poem in while I can.
I put out the call for submissions for The Christmas Wars at Oddball Magazine yesterday, right after what's being called Pine Eleven. Even though I created the Christmas Wars segment, I don't think I have a poem with that title. Let's change that.
There were fewer holiday references on Wednesday, but I can do a lot with a little. Thanks for reading. Please submit your work to Oddball!
The Christmas Wars
At the end of Die Hard,
Christmas won't be saved
for another year.
Still haven't the chance
Still haven't the chance
of a steel mill in Pittsburg,
or a missionary wolf halting
the pack from eating us
out of a misunderstanding.
Too late to go back in time .
No one can keep track
of all the wars to prevent.
Continue to jar water
for those we'll be indebted to.
Marching music demands
all to move a bit faster,
keep pace with the latest
western hero winter
warrior wannabe.
None of the predecessors
wore bulletproof vests,
touted assault rifles
or copped feels from
damsels, but there you go.
Santa's toy soldiers stand ready.
Holiday play list can't lighten
this hippopotamus mood.
Still, let's compromise
with arthritic bones,
play percussion to
sleigh ride chase
until emergency broadcast
prays us to silent night.
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| Whoops, Laurel! Where'd you go? |
Special thanks to Jon Wesick, Jan Rowe (who also gets my apology for forgetting to let her go a second time), Chris Fitzgerald, John Stickney, Patricia Carragon, Bil Lewis, Karen A. Szklany, Nancy Dodson, Carol Weston, Ethan Mackler and James Van Looy.
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