Twitter poetry 2021: Week 4

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

I’ve been finding that I am more able to express uncomfortable feelings in this micropoetry format. However, on the downside, sometimes I feel that I have to write micropoems because I’ve committed myself to writing them daily, and I ended up feeling that I’m doing nothing more than throwing words together for the sake of publishing them.

Below is my 4^th week of Twitter poems:

Shabbat Shalom from Jerusalem,
David

She paints with all the colors
of the rainbow, still those are not
enough for her brilliant mind
and eyes

I love that@Experimentsinfc #APoemADay pic.twitter.com/cU6kDz34fK
— Skeptic's Kaddish (@kaddish_s) January 23, 2021

Cold seeps into Jerusalem stone
Cold seeps into Jerusalem's homes
Cold seeps into Jerusalemite bones
Outside it's wet, inside it's dry
My eyes are wet, and I know why@Experimentsinfc #APoemADay pic.twitter.com/6b1uAP0ois
— Skeptic's Kaddish (@kaddish_s) January 24, 2021

Homunculus Homunculus
I'm rather in a funkulus
For you've taken the top bunkulus
And won't clear off your junkulus

You fucking blighter@Experimentsinfc #APoemADay pic.twitter.com/s97SF0L7nY
— Skeptic's Kaddish (@kaddish_s) January 25, 2021

Oh beauty do you dance with #death
Does your neck tingle with his breath#Requiem – plays to contented sigh
You've lost all track of time spin by
Danseurs fall limp as spirits fly
Black pooling eyes consuming why@Experimentsinfc #APoemADay pic.twitter.com/sTavsv3CJz
— Skeptic's Kaddish (@kaddish_s) January 26, 2021

A river in Egypt:

Some people die and others don't
until they do although they won't
or simply can't accept that@Experimentsinfc #APoemADay pic.twitter.com/aY2knlsmyn
— Skeptic's Kaddish (@kaddish_s) January 27, 2021

It wasn't you;
entirely me.
My shrink says
I need #therapy.@Experimentsinfc #APoemADay pic.twitter.com/ZOlxfIe2Y3
— Skeptic's Kaddish (@kaddish_s) January 28, 2021

This is nothing
more than a paragraph
with awkward line
breaks. Why do you continue to read
these
words?
You're just wasting your time. No poem
to
see here; just move along, friend. My supplier didn't deliver the goods today. Seriously, move along.@Experimentsinfc #APoemADay pic.twitter.com/SFfwJnMLuM
— Skeptic's Kaddish (@kaddish_s) January 29, 2021

39 thoughts on “Twitter poetry 2021: Week 4”

My pleasure friend. I struggle with Twitter so much. I tried to post this morning and ended up doing it twice because I didn’t think it took the first time. I have used computers all my life so I don’t know why but it frustrates me to the point I don’t want to write. Plus I just can’t keep up with more than one platform and do it justice. Your poems were all very good. Have a blessed day David. xoxoxo

ben Alexander February 1, 202119:37 Reply

Twitter is entirely new to me – I’ve avoided it entirely until now because of Ingrid’s poetry challenge 🙂
1. jonicaggiano February 1, 202119:44 Reply
  
  Perhaps you will be come a master at using this venue. I just keep messing things up. Two of my biggest flaws are my impatience and stubbornness. Neither of which I am proud of. I continue to work on these but I still have much work to do. I loved your post on your religious beliefs. I think you described your feelings and beliefs very well. I bet that high school teacher is honored you remember him as making a difference. Sending love to you my friend. Joni