Twitter poetry 2021: Week 24

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

I had intended to pick one form of poetry and stick with it for this entire week, but things didn’t turn out that way, largely because I ended up cross-posting poems to Twitter from the Skeptic’s Kaddish. Perhaps I’ll try a full week of gogyohka or naani some time soon…

Anyway, please enjoy the last week’s Twitter poems below!

Shabbat Shalom from Jerusalem,
David

A #gogyohka:

what if a gogyohka had lines four
instead of the assigned five
that's certainly hard for me to imagine
but here's what it might look like
if a poet wrote it
to include a sixth

– #sixlines #6lines #poem #poetry #APoemADay @Experimentsinfc pic.twitter.com/GaYKujPXbT
— Skeptic's Kaddish (@kaddish_s) June 13, 2021

A #gogyohka:

staying home from kindergarten
is absolutely necessary
today
clearly, there's no question
the daily grind wears a six-year-old out

– #5lines #fivelines #poem #poetry #APoemADay @Experimentsinfc pic.twitter.com/AcEpogjuNJ
— Skeptic's Kaddish (@kaddish_s) June 14, 2021

lacking
motivation to even capitalize my letters; nah
it’s stylistic –capitalized one
only to change it –cuz that’s creative
right? almost missed it, actually
cuz my puter screen is smudged up, and I'm lacking
the motivation to spray it and wipe
it down. Tired@Experimentsinfc pic.twitter.com/3CMwN2NlcX
— Skeptic's Kaddish (@kaddish_s) June 15, 2021

A #gogyohka:

"punc.tuation [truly] (really) ~
¿fascinates?! me so…
& so does the utter
lack of it which may or may
not be confusing if you catch my drift and even if not should I care I mean does anyone

"

– @Experimentsinfc #APoemADay #Poem #Poetry #5lines #punctuation pic.twitter.com/E9XvQRKVXy
— Skeptic's Kaddish (@kaddish_s) June 16, 2021

A #naani:

How long does it take you
to write one word? For some
reason, it
takes //me// an overly long time

– @Experimentsinfc #APoemADay #4lines #poem #poetry #Creative #poets #micropoetry #PoetsTwitter pic.twitter.com/lU3OETfIf2
— Skeptic's Kaddish (@kaddish_s) June 17, 2021

brown blanket threadbare
tattered shivering bodies
trampled by spiders
succumbing to elements
blown cold against curb
blue pebbles await beyond
golden barrier
chance crevice veiled by despair
only one dares hope
haltingly extends upwards
feeling its way to heaven@Experimentsinfc pic.twitter.com/4nHRIJA74H
— Skeptic's Kaddish (@kaddish_s) June 17, 2021

A #schuttelreim:

She watched as the vet worked, wicked, clever asp
She'd be the very last critter that he'd ever clasp

– @Experimentsinfc #APoemADay #Poetry #Poem #2lines #Micropoetry pic.twitter.com/bIYfOUjtcM
— Skeptic's Kaddish (@kaddish_s) June 18, 2021