The looneycorn

We're exploring the (im)possible in this issue of your weekly dose of fresh poetry #133

An AI-generated image of a looneycorn

A unique
and magical creature
that lives in the lives of happy ones,
and is a bit mad: the
looneycorn.

It’s so much fun to have conversations with kids. Especially if they’re your own. In these conversations, at times, you run unexpectedly into accidentally invented, discovered or created creatures. That is how, in a conversation with my six-year-old daughter, we discovered (or maybe created) the looneycorn: a crazy - but good-crazy - unicorn. A mad creature that makes us happy.

Now, of course, this looneycorn is unique and makes us happy, and it that way, dear readers, you all are looneycorns to me. It is amazing to see how many people have found this inbox poetry magazine and give me permission to take up valuable space in your inbox and life every week. So, to all subscribers, new and old: THANK YOU!

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The poetics of life

Unexpectedness is one of the not-so-secret secret powers of art. When you see something that makes you wonder. Whether that is in the unexpected find of a funny word, or in a dance performance by the man in the video, Yoann Bourgeois. I saw part of a performance similar to the one in the clip above as a meme on Twitter. Something about the volatility of the cryptocurrency markets, probably. So, I tried to find out more and could not stop watching. This is an early version of his performance Fugue. Click play and wonder.

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Poetry elsewhere

The beat generation art movement rose out of a time when the word was in a depressing state: wars, financial insecurity and polarisation. Elements that seem all too familiar right now as well. So, it is no wonder that artists now look back to the beat generation for inspiration. Emanuel Souza has done so brilliantly with this poem: Don’t worry, It’s almost midnight.

Sometimes we wander through the house, isolated because we don’t want to infect the others in our family, not even with a common cold. Rachel Rossos has described this with a wonderful balance between what she sees and what she thinks in her poem washing dishes:

washing dishes

The sea is a wonderful metaphor. And a wonderful scene. And a wonderful inspiration. I love the sea, and it has been at the root of many great poems. It’s also the scene of this beautiful poem I AM IN THE DEEP AS DEEP CAN BE, IT'S NOT THE FIRST TIME, THIS TIME IN THE SEA by Kristen Lenea Ryberg:

I AM IN THE DEEP AS DEEP CAN BE, IT'S NOT THE FIRST TIME, THIS TIME IN THE SEA