Climbing the alphabet ladder, with
an aimless appetite and an action
besieging, bringing down bulwark to burn and
conquer to cozen the crowds to
defraud, delighting dozens of dozens,
extinguishing every piece of empathy left.
Finally finding my friction, my
goal of a gravity gone, left
helpless, having no habits, no home
intentless and icy, I idle
a jackal, a jailbird of joy, and
keenly kissing the keys to
lavishness, laughter, the laborless
market of marriage and mind.
Now nothing is near, no
obvious offer, no obedient ocean to
pass; let me pause to persist, and
quench the quadrillions; be quiet and
rest, recover, then race to
starvation, find structure in silence.
Tradition has taught, tenacity wins,
understanding the unison unveiling the
wonder of writing with water and lacking
xerosis, reaching the xyst we’re
yielding to yawns, left
zestless, with zealousness gone
I fall from the ladder, but recover in time to
again begin climbing delighted embracing …
William Blake
Today it is open linke at dVerse hosted by me. Join us with any poem you want or use the optional mini-prompt of green, at 9 PM CET.
If you can you may also join the live session on Saturday at 4 PM CET.
April 11, 2024
Björn Rudbergs writings 
This is an excellent poem Bjorn
Thank you… I had fun writing it.
You’re most welcome
Quite a mindblowing poem Bjorn ❤️
It was just this idea I had.
LOVE the last couplet, the image and everything about this alphabet poem! WOW! Although this line, I thought was sad: “extinguishing every piece of empathy left.” Will have to try one of these alphabetic ladders some day 🙂
Maybe it is a new form of sorts… I hope it will sound good when reading on Saturday
Wonderful and a very free abecedarian, I will take some lessons from here to include the additional words instead of following the letters to a tee; I think its what really makes the poem flow more seamlessly, but still structured.
I did not really follow any such form, but I realize that such a form exists…
Tradition has taught, tenacity wins…
🙂
I enjoyed the climb up the alphabet ladder with you, Björn; it’s a clever example of alliteration and abecedarian poetry. These lines stand out for me:
‘Finally finding my friction, my
goal of a gravity gone, left
helpless, having no habits, no home’.
Thank you, I didn’t even check if it was a real form (that I probably broke)… I hope it will be fun to read on Saturday.
The whole spectrum of wonder and monstrousness. You captured it well.
We live in a complicated world.
Wow Björn! An abecedarian with alliteration! Excellent write.
Thank you… since it is going to live I wanted it to be fun to read.
You are welcome. Look forward to it.
Love your premise here Björn, and what a wonderful job of execution.
…here’s a rhyme for you my friend:
while practicing to recite my ABC’s
I tripped on the alphabet and broke my knees
it hurt like hell, but I say alas
better than tripping and breaking my ass
Ha.. thank you for the nice rhyme. I had fun writing this poem.
🙂👍🏼✌🏼
Excellent wordplay! I love how it all starts again with the last line 🙂. Plus I’ve learned a couple of new words (xyst, xerosis).
They were new to me as well… bless the dictionary 🙂
Oh, very clever Bjorn – and so well done!
I had fun writing it… and I think it will work well for a live reading as well
This was a really fun read and the lines flowed so effortlessly, with motion through time and space. “Rest, recover, then race to starvation” really stood out for me.
It was fun to write … and with a good dictionary it was fun.
That is a really cool form. I don’t think I’ve ever come across it. You did a wonderful job and was fun to read. I need to try this sometime.
Wow, a really fun form. I have never tried this but, I will have to try it sometime. You did a great job.
It was fun to write, and I hope it will be fun to read out loud as well.
Bravo Björn. I enjoyed your abecedarian. I have not seen that firm in a long while
much♡love
I did not even know it as a form, and combining it with alliteration may be a novel form actually.
An interesting poem.
Thank you.
A fun read, Bjorn thank you for hosting. I was following your progress fairly well. Seems perhaps gravity has returned and was causing the subject to fall. Minor.
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yes… sooner or later gravity will always come back to haunt you.
Brill! You scaled that ladder like nobody’s business.
Thank you, had lots of fun writing it
Brilliant. It took me to the B line to get what was going down… or what was up!
Thank you… yes was it reallly up
An Ace of Alliteration Björn…
Thank you… I wanted to do some fun reading.
Suddenly the ABCs became far more complex than the nursery rhyme we sang … stellar writing, Bjorn!
Awesome, Björn, and really a great challenge, want to try that one day as well, up the alphabet.
Fun to read it as hard to capture all the words by ear. Thanks for moderating. How do we listen to the recorded version?
The videos are posted in the orginal post….
Hi Bjorn, this really is a very clever poem.
Thank you 🙂
💓
Oh bravo, Björn! You have reached abecedarian heights and mounted the eternal ladder of spiraling verse with gay aplomb. 😀
I had a lot of fun writing it.
It was great to hear you read this on Saturday. Very cleverly done with the form, so that you got in all the letters while still making a “real” poem.