Twitter poetry 2021: Week 31

A #limerick:#TriggerWarning: Domestic abuse

Learning just how to scream Hades' name
was Persephone's debasing shame.
While tending to his needs,
she swallowed only six seeds,
cuz she always pulled back when he came.

–#APoemADay #poem #poetry @Experimentsinfc #creativewriting pic.twitter.com/v9n5sqGdYe

— Skeptic's Kaddish (@kaddish_s) August 6, 2021

A #limerick:
Rated #PG13:

It'll remain when I am laid flat;
I'll be buried with what I last begat.
No matter how hard I push
while seated on my tush,
my last shit shall never get shat.

–#APoemADay @Experimentsinfc #poem #poetry #creativewriting #poetrycommunity pic.twitter.com/DuxznSmEtl

— Skeptic's Kaddish (@kaddish_s) August 6, 2021

A #limerick:

I sow d'Verse prompts in my garden
But I feel that I must beg your pardon.
For my rows are of keys
That yield green abc's
Though my gardenin's really quite ardent.

–#APoemADay #poem #poetry @Experimentsinfc

–https://t.co/Hbh2j2g0Xm #dverse pic.twitter.com/Glgxptpn16

— Skeptic's Kaddish (@kaddish_s) August 6, 2021

A [serious] #limerick:

Serious issues in limerick form
to this silly form don't well conform.
Though that being said,
perhaps it's all in my head,
my mindset informed by former norms?

–@Experimentsinfc #APoemADay #poem #poetry #5lines #introspection #emotions #communication pic.twitter.com/s9dHvRFVEU

— Skeptic's Kaddish (@kaddish_s) August 6, 2021

A [serious] #limerick:

I'm worried she's too much like me.
She lives in stories that others can't see.
She's all imagination
and loving adoration;
but much less grounded in reality…

–@Experimentsinfc #APoemADay #poem #poetry #fatherhood #parenthood #parenting #childhood pic.twitter.com/iwmr1DkfYG

— Skeptic's Kaddish (@kaddish_s) August 5, 2021

A [semi-serious] #limerick:

Sashimi is a delicacy
but resembles raw fish flesh to me.
So could we perhaps say
that a few words per day
are refined and profound poetry?

–@Experimentsinfc #APoemADay #poem #poetry #5lines #humor #sashimi #creativewriting #thinking pic.twitter.com/hJKmLThBpO

— Skeptic's Kaddish (@kaddish_s) August 4, 2021

A [serious] #limerick:

Just like you, I was born this way.
In facts of birth, no one gets a say.
I should only judge you
for that which you do;
I'd much rather be we than be they.

–@Experimentsinfc #APoemADay #poem #poetry #5lines #humanity #identity #unity #creativewriting pic.twitter.com/7pSicSDm6N

— Skeptic's Kaddish (@kaddish_s) August 3, 2021

A [serious] #limerick:

A Muslim goes to Christian hell;
and a Christian to Muslim as well.
Is it simply understood
that we *all* are screwed?
Is that why most men stay in their shells?

–@Experimentsinfc #APoemADay #religion #Christianity #Islam #Hell #poem #poetry #5lines pic.twitter.com/fkm2eJ8u0b

— Skeptic's Kaddish (@kaddish_s) August 2, 2021

A [serious] #limerick:

There was once a time when I thought… …
but… well… now, I would never be caught
suggesting I own the truth
like some presumptuous youth,
for my theories have all come to naught.

–@Experimentsinfc #APoemADay #humor #wisdom #truth #poem #poetry pic.twitter.com/GEPcjs1g6v

— Skeptic's Kaddish (@kaddish_s) August 1, 2021

A [serious] #limerick:

I am, sadly, not a very good Jew
though I've studied more than many Jews do
I once tried to believe
but felt simply naïve
I think God and I are basically through

–@Experimentsinfc #APoemADay #LimerickRhyme #5lines #poem #poetry #faith #skepticism #humor pic.twitter.com/BhDgTh4ygU

— Skeptic's Kaddish (@kaddish_s) July 31, 2021