Twitter poetry 2021: Week 1

My blogger-poet-friend Ingrid inspired me to create a Twitter account and start writing #APoemADay, which I began on January 1, 2021.

As Ingrid herself has written, micropoetry is a unique challenge because I want to feel free to write poems without restrictions, ones that I feel reflect something meaningful. Still, I am hoping to meet this challenge and grow from it. I can’t say that I love all the poems I’ve tweeted so far, but Ingrid’s suggested goal of daily micropoems does get my juices flowing!

Below is my first week of Twitter poems:

Shabbat Shalom from Jerusalem,
David

swift stream begins in twirls and spins
ideas rush past on silver fins
sparkling bright, chromatic skins
reflecting truth through prims and zins
clarity calls; confusion thins@Experimentsinfc #APoemADay pic.twitter.com/LadRQDsfAX
— Skeptic's Kaddish (@kaddish_s) January 1, 2021

Tweets twittering so rapidly!
punching out nonstop #poetry
but Saturday's #Shabbat for me
no pens, no electricity…

Twitter provides me with the key:
its scheduling technology!#APoemADay @Experimentsinfc pic.twitter.com/KrWN4sjPSg
— Skeptic's Kaddish (@kaddish_s) January 2, 2021

What might deepest thoughts
sound like reverberating
beneath consciousness?#Haiku #APoemADay @Experimentsinfc pic.twitter.com/ewKEWKRrn7
— Skeptic's Kaddish (@kaddish_s) January 3, 2021

Attention he felt undue then
he expired
January fourth forever
now beginning of an end

I don't cry; just many
many drops of salty
sweat (yes, really)
drizzle on his unbirthday cake@Experimentsinfc #APoemADay pic.twitter.com/uz3xnWeooB
— Skeptic's Kaddish (@kaddish_s) January 4, 2021

An old leather loveseat she
once played on at her great-grandmother's apartment
is now in her family
room, but she doesn't remember

love sits, facing in only one direction@Experimentsinfc #APoemADay pic.twitter.com/QWpDiS8Qah
— Skeptic's Kaddish (@kaddish_s) January 5, 2021

This Jerusalem winter is for the grass
Rain, sometimes; sunshine, always

If the leaves weren't withering
falling cracking
beneath my feet

I might think
But it's too distracting@Experimentsinfc #APoemADay pic.twitter.com/1e130QqMXn
— Skeptic's Kaddish (@kaddish_s) January 6, 2021

The U.S. #President provoked actual riot. 🤦‍♂️
Ev'ry grievance he claimed, they would buy it.
Hordes stormed the halls of #Congress,
Hell-bent on making a mess…
Well, I s'pose no one thought he'd go quiet!@Experimentsinfc #APoemADay pic.twitter.com/OuzSMMSyNu
— Skeptic's Kaddish (@kaddish_s) January 7, 2021

A poem a
day this day
might just might
present a present
for humankind for
ever and ever

Or it's all just for myself
lonely
needy

broken

unglu e d

The words inside might get stuck
to the ribbons and wrapping
paper pic.twitter.com/nqcbJXv9JM
— Skeptic's Kaddish (@kaddish_s) January 8, 2021

33 thoughts on “Twitter poetry 2021: Week 1”

PoeEternal March 3, 202123:02 Reply

I don’t mind a bit of micropoetry at all.
1. ben Alexander March 3, 202123:05 Reply
  
  Delia,
  
  I only got into it this year! It’s fun 😀
  
  Yours,
  David
  1. PoeEternal March 3, 202123:06 Reply
    
    Never wrote much micropoetry myself but been experimenting and expanding much more over the last few years!
    1. ben Alexander March 3, 202123:08 Reply
      
      me too! (well, at least I’ve been trying to!)
paeansunplugged January 10, 202121:34 Reply

These are great, David! Thanks for sharing here.
1. ben Alexander January 11, 202108:35 Reply
  
  Thanks, Punam 💕
  1. paeansunplugged January 11, 202112:47 Reply
    
    You are welcome. ❤️