Ballad of the Sea Lion Woman and other steampunk tales eBook Halli Lilburn
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Mesmerized we were by her horrific beauty
slimy tresses slithered over slanted eyes so cavernous
and exotic siren, a foreign mystery
maiden familiar, yet alien and dangerous.
Meet the Sea Lion Woman and other reinvented folk tales in poetic form.
Ballad of the Sea Lion Woman and other steampunk tales eBook Halli Lilburn
Byline: Subterranean Blue PoetryTitle of Book: Ballad of the Sea Lion Woman: And Other SteamPunk Poems
Author: Halli Lilburn
Publisher: CreateSpace
Date of Publication: 2013
Page Count: 36
“The Brothers Grimm ain’t got nuthin’ on this, come and dis’” An art nouveau, New Age style punk poetry with pagan images Ballad of the Sea Lion Woman creates dark mythologies. This Chapbook of poetry is written by Halli Liliburn, an artist, librarian and mother from Alberta, Canada. She has poetry published in journals (Poetry Quarterly, Seeding the Snow, Red Fez amongst others) and has published short stories with Leap Books and Tesseracts and a novel, Shifters with Imajin Books.
Borrowing from old world forms, the poetry is narrative poetic prose and reads not unlike dark fairytales with inconclusive, surprise or dark endings. The work is well written, it flows in occasional rhyme and with rhythm, exciting new word synergies that play against the quiet of the night. Pagan images of the past recreate themselves within the New Age influences of steampunk and the legacies of Generation X and Y, those born after the ‘60’s children with all the issues of New World angst.
The Ballad of the Sea Lion Woman is the story of a mystical Muse woman who is captured in the nets of a sailing ship. The captain takes away her cloak and tortures her in his cabin. Eventually, the crew shanghai the captain and tie him to the yardarm,
“The creature piles herself against the port border
Defensive, untamed and tortured.
We take an axe to the Captain’s coffer
While her slanted eyes speak with no words.
Slowly, the cloak in raised from the splinters And sea lion woman bounds into action With hiss and fury she bolts fast and under Grabs through our midst and finds her salvation.
With haste she flies for the gang plank, shaking And airborne she twists in mid stride To wrap her fur and fuse to its making Molding into one creation before she hits the tide.
The horror shocks us to the core Hands are made flippers, feet are made tail The beast of the sea is woman no more. She is gone and onward we sail.”
As if breathing in the violence of the New World, dark themes weave through the 15 poems, with titles of Take Heed, Lonely Automaton, Astigmatism, Ballad of the Sea Lion Woman, Ticki ticki tembo no sarembo …, Recycled with Love, Lineascope, The Grimm Fable, Clockwork, Gatsby and more. Images of death, the vagaries of love, a tortured mystic woman, a time machine, the laboratory, ocean voyages, the earth, the huntsman and the princess, and time all fall into new realms of now, and sometimes dark humor.
In Recycled with love:
“1. I like skulls. I’m not goth or psycho. I’m not a forensic anthropologist, or Hamlet. I like skulls because they have empty eyes, empty mouths, empty brains. No sight, no voice, no thoughts. I like skulls because they are harmless.
2. Grave. Make way, the dead are waiting. Your plot of soil has done a rotten job. You must cough up your supper, empty your bowels, give back the dissolution. Bones are fertilizer. Skulls are for the mantel piece. Yawning tomb with hunger pains like a puking drunk asking for another shot. Feed Me!
3. Hollow eyes look your last. These rotting wrappings flutter in oxygen rich wind. Your well preserved, juiceless, corpse born up to the afterlife, awaiting the thousand year resurrection. Well I am your God now. I will resurrect you crushed in my garden, as a succulent, juicy tomato.”
Also, there is a certain Zen aesthetic, almost Asian mystique within the horror and bonespeak.
In Astigmatism:
“There is an orange lantern hanging from a tree branch.
I blink and it is gone.
The ghost in my closet flies out.
I blink and it is gone.
Party streamers fall from the ceiling, twisting as they flutter.
Unravelling nerves
The sunset pulsing like heart beat dreams
Sinking into black nightmares.
I blink and it is gone.
Free electricity striking blindly
Attracted to my peripheral vision.
My eyes!
Illuminate every drop of water
In a street lamp rain.
My focal point confused, vision blurred
I want to see clearly!
To brush aside the crawling spiders and glowing hallows;
The fears and distractions
I blink and they are gone.”
A surprising take on the old world fairytale form, the undertoad of the New Age in narrative poetic prose, Ballad of the Sea Lion Woman: And Other SteamPunk Poems by Halli Lilburn.
Available at Amazon.
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Ballad of the Sea Lion Woman and other steampunk tales eBook Halli Lilburn Reviews
Byline Subterranean Blue Poetry
Title of Book Ballad of the Sea Lion Woman And Other SteamPunk Poems
Author Halli Lilburn
Publisher CreateSpace
Date of Publication 2013
Page Count 36
“The Brothers Grimm ain’t got nuthin’ on this, come and dis’” An art nouveau, New Age style punk poetry with pagan images Ballad of the Sea Lion Woman creates dark mythologies. This Chapbook of poetry is written by Halli Liliburn, an artist, librarian and mother from Alberta, Canada. She has poetry published in journals (Poetry Quarterly, Seeding the Snow, Red Fez amongst others) and has published short stories with Leap Books and Tesseracts and a novel, Shifters with Imajin Books.
Borrowing from old world forms, the poetry is narrative poetic prose and reads not unlike dark fairytales with inconclusive, surprise or dark endings. The work is well written, it flows in occasional rhyme and with rhythm, exciting new word synergies that play against the quiet of the night. Pagan images of the past recreate themselves within the New Age influences of steampunk and the legacies of Generation X and Y, those born after the ‘60’s children with all the issues of New World angst.
The Ballad of the Sea Lion Woman is the story of a mystical Muse woman who is captured in the nets of a sailing ship. The captain takes away her cloak and tortures her in his cabin. Eventually, the crew shanghai the captain and tie him to the yardarm,
“The creature piles herself against the port border
Defensive, untamed and tortured.
We take an axe to the Captain’s coffer
While her slanted eyes speak with no words.
Slowly, the cloak in raised from the splinters And sea lion woman bounds into action With hiss and fury she bolts fast and under Grabs through our midst and finds her salvation.
With haste she flies for the gang plank, shaking And airborne she twists in mid stride To wrap her fur and fuse to its making Molding into one creation before she hits the tide.
The horror shocks us to the core Hands are made flippers, feet are made tail The beast of the sea is woman no more. She is gone and onward we sail.”
As if breathing in the violence of the New World, dark themes weave through the 15 poems, with titles of Take Heed, Lonely Automaton, Astigmatism, Ballad of the Sea Lion Woman, Ticki ticki tembo no sarembo …, Recycled with Love, Lineascope, The Grimm Fable, Clockwork, Gatsby and more. Images of death, the vagaries of love, a tortured mystic woman, a time machine, the laboratory, ocean voyages, the earth, the huntsman and the princess, and time all fall into new realms of now, and sometimes dark humor.
In Recycled with love
“1. I like skulls. I’m not goth or psycho. I’m not a forensic anthropologist, or Hamlet. I like skulls because they have empty eyes, empty mouths, empty brains. No sight, no voice, no thoughts. I like skulls because they are harmless.
2. Grave. Make way, the dead are waiting. Your plot of soil has done a rotten job. You must cough up your supper, empty your bowels, give back the dissolution. Bones are fertilizer. Skulls are for the mantel piece. Yawning tomb with hunger pains like a puking drunk asking for another shot. Feed Me!
3. Hollow eyes look your last. These rotting wrappings flutter in oxygen rich wind. Your well preserved, juiceless, corpse born up to the afterlife, awaiting the thousand year resurrection. Well I am your God now. I will resurrect you crushed in my garden, as a succulent, juicy tomato.”
Also, there is a certain Zen aesthetic, almost Asian mystique within the horror and bonespeak.
In Astigmatism
“There is an orange lantern hanging from a tree branch.
I blink and it is gone.
The ghost in my closet flies out.
I blink and it is gone.
Party streamers fall from the ceiling, twisting as they flutter.
Unravelling nerves
The sunset pulsing like heart beat dreams
Sinking into black nightmares.
I blink and it is gone.
Free electricity striking blindly
Attracted to my peripheral vision.
My eyes!
Illuminate every drop of water
In a street lamp rain.
My focal point confused, vision blurred
I want to see clearly!
To brush aside the crawling spiders and glowing hallows;
The fears and distractions
I blink and they are gone.”
A surprising take on the old world fairytale form, the undertoad of the New Age in narrative poetic prose, Ballad of the Sea Lion Woman And Other SteamPunk Poems by Halli Lilburn.
Available at .
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