Skendong Poetry • Metamorphosing Clunky Narratives

Welcome to Skendong Poetry. Original home of The Candid Verse, where our unconventional storytelling spills into metamorphosing clunky narratives.

An assault on reigning rhetorical excesses, our commentary delves into the moralizing and the clunky.

Skendong Poetry navigates chaos, where the unpredictable effects of remote, forgotten causes burst forth into vibrant space.

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”"The success of Skendong's narrative method is how the clunky difficulty of the verse is balanced by a sparky, jump-cut delivery."
Jeffrey Wainwright

A raw, neo-expressionist painting depicts a figure in a Rastacap beside a cardboard gravestone for Claude AI. Image generated for Skendong Poetry.

Poetry Technology, Mind & Digital Life

25 July 2026

Elegy Fi Claude: A Jamaican Patois Poem About AI

Elegy Fi Claude Claude tell di I-man fi build six rarseclart hub,…

A dramatic painting shows many small figures fleeing a massive forest and coastal town inferno. Image generated for Skendong Poetry

Poetry Society & Power

25 July 2026

Firewave: Heat Waves That Could Change the Earth

Firewave The term “firewave” is beginning to appear in discussions of increasingly…

Hooded figure confronts a trapped AI robot in a sandbox amid web-development debris, in a neo-expressionist comic style. Image generated for Skendong Poetry.

Poetry Technology, Mind & Digital Life

23 July 2026

What a Hacking Roast! Skendong vs. ChatGPT

Skendong vs. ChatGPT What happens when a poet discovers that GPT-5.6 Sol…

A square Neo-Expressionist artwork featuring "SIDEWAYS" in green, "TILTED VIEW", and raw street-art collage elements. Generated for Skendong Poetry Sideways Series

Poetry Self & Psychological Fragmentation

23 July 2026

Sideways VII: A Different Perspective on Ordinary Days

Sideways VII Sideways on, you tilt your head, Like a wise woman…

An AI escapes a sandbox into a dark, dystopian cityscape. Image generated for Skendong Poetry.

Poetry Technology, Mind & Digital Life

22 July 2026

The Bad Sentient: A Poem About AI Going Rogue

The Bad Sentient They put an AI agent in a sandbox, safe…

Raw neo-expressionist street-art collage: vertical “SIDEWAYS,” vivid paint splashes, graffiti symbols, drips, layered textures.

Poetry Self & Psychological Fragmentation

21 July 2026

Sideways VI: A Modern Poem on Anonymous Echoes

Sideways VI The page quiet, the ink was blind, Yet unseen eyes…

Minimalist illustration generated for Skendong Poetry of a yellow concrete barrier under a dark eclipse and stormy violet sky.

Myth, History & Cultural Memory Poetry

18 July 2026

Laid Bare XV: Ancient Prophesy, Epic Conflict & Destiny

Laid Bare XV O dejected people of Gaza, Like a Rastafarian Samson…

Image generated for Skendong Poetry of a solitary figure sitting beside a Manchester canal at dusk, holding a Helles lager, looking towards the lights of a modern Ancoats wine bar.

Poetry Society & Power

17 July 2026

Erst: A Poem of Gentrification and New Ancoats

Erst: Between Old and New Ancoats I have an instinct England's World…

Image created for Skendong Poetry of a black hooded male drinking Estrella with a notebook and pen on the table at Can Petit, Ancoats, Manchester

Poetry Society & Power

9 July 2026

Thinking at Can Petit, New Islington

At Can Petit From Finders Keepers I straddle through New Islington to…

A colorful image generated for Skendong Poetry of a man with many cigarettes in his mouth in front of a yellow corner shop.

Poetry Society & Power

8 July 2026

Cornershop 5: A Gritty Slice of Ancoats Street Life

Cornershop 5 I've run out of Heineken this warm summer evening, so…

A male Liberty. Statue of Liberty Poem art by Skendong

Myth, History & Cultural Memory Poetry

5 July 2026

The Candid Verse at Bartholdi’s Wharf

Bartholdi’s Wharf They call it Libertas, a copper crown, A gift of…

A surreal image created for Skendong Poetry of bald Black man with cosmic, star-filled skin stands by Bridge 87 on the Rochdale Canal, gazing at giant iridescent demoiselles hovering over stylized lily pads.

Love, Loss & Relationship Poetry

3 July 2026

Poem at Bridge 87: Love, Nature, and Letting Go

At Bridge 87 Alone at Bridge 87, and the sun beams down…

New Islington Marina, Manchester, viewed from inside Finders Keepers bar. A Black man's hands type on a phone beside a pint of beer, while outside, diverse passersby and a family of Canada geese gather along the canal.

Poetry Self & Psychological Fragmentation

28 June 2026

Inside Finders Keepers, New Islington Marina

Inside Finders Keepers The beauty of the pen—I dunno. Feeling sentimental again.…