Twitter poetry 2021: Week 9

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

I don’t have much in the way of insights regarding this challenge of ours this week… I continue to feel that I’ve hit my stride (largely by taking it easier by aiming to write haikus and cross-posting from blog to Twitter). Actually, now that I think of it, I do want to make note of the fact that I wrote some tankas this week, rather than haikus. That’s somewhat more challenging for me, particular with Magnetic Poetry.

Also, now that we’re at the start of week 10 (a nice, round number), I want to say that I am very impressed with Ingrid for having come up with this idea in the first place – I think it’s a fantastic exercise.

Anyway, below is my 9^th week of Twitter poems:

Shabbat Shalom from Jerusalem,
David

creative writing;
creation could bring about
inspiration's death;

brings inspiration,
death creates by destroying;
writing his/story

—#APoemADay @Experimentsinfc #creativewriting pic.twitter.com/0xQmosYSTD
— Skeptic's Kaddish (@kaddish_s) February 27, 2021

sun sparkles on clouds
sea foam glistens overhead
one need only see

–#APoemADay @Experimentsinfc
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Click here for back story on this #Jerusalem #sunset: https://t.co/0ryuVF1brb pic.twitter.com/rc23Y7WcnM
— Skeptic's Kaddish (@kaddish_s) February 28, 2021

dark dusk colored clouds
sweetly secret soft sun shine
loving light beneath
grows like long lonely tendril
poetry upon water

–#APoemADay @Experimentsinfc pic.twitter.com/Mhlbh9IBzU
— Skeptic's Kaddish (@kaddish_s) March 1, 2021

they uploaded her
to digital love dungeon
from native planet
to play sexy girl games
but she was not humanoid

–@Experimentsinfc #APoemADay pic.twitter.com/y0w6EkblV7
— Skeptic's Kaddish (@kaddish_s) March 2, 2021

that blue uniform…
woman delivering mail…
not from the police

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This #haiku is actually part of a #haibun about a #childhood memory of mine, which provides the #backstory. You may read the full piece here: https://t.co/JvAkJGGk66

–@Experimentsinfc #apoemaday pic.twitter.com/2xwBXDT1LI
— Skeptic's Kaddish (@kaddish_s) March 3, 2021

I wonder
why the non-stop chatter?
what is it about childhood?
I wonder
to myself
to understand
I wonder
how quickly I can complete
this snippet of a verse before
she wonders what I'm writing
she's a wonder

–@Experimentsinfc #APoemADay pic.twitter.com/ikvv0CVGLE
— Skeptic's Kaddish (@kaddish_s) March 4, 2021

I lie at night
dying to write
Oh, lies I write,
do! dye my night!

–@Experimentsinfc #APoemADay pic.twitter.com/0yMs3qPpS4
— Skeptic's Kaddish (@kaddish_s) March 5, 2021

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