Mock Me at the Lighthouse

Mock Me at the Lighthouse is a book of counter-songs — poems that confront the aesthetic emptiness of modern verse by reviving the ancient strengths of poetry: music, structure, symbol, and revelation.

In these pages, Al Konda reclaims the poetic line from the flatness of contemporary “content,” reshaping it into something alive again — charged with cadence, sharpened by intention, and carried by the pulse of true craft.

These are not parodies.
They are not pastiches.
They are original, fully independent poems that illuminate the gap between what poetry has become and what poetry must be if it wishes to endure.

Written with wit, fire, and rigorous control, Mock Me at the Lighthouse showcases:
• heroic couplets sharpened to a blade
• lyrical satire with musical restraint
• dramatic monologues forged through symbol
• modern scenes re-imagined with classical discipline
• poems that echo the golden age yet speak with a contemporary voice

This is a work of artistic reclamation — an argument made not through essays, but through the poem itself.
A bold reminder that rhyme is not ornament, but architecture.
That poetry must be heard before it is understood.
And that form, in the hands of a committed craftsman, still holds enough electricity to illuminate an age.

For readers who long for poetry that sings, this book is a testament to what remains possible when the line is taken seriously.