Twitter poetry 2021: Week 44

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

This week, I posted a series of tricubes to Twitter, which I wrote a while ago… Actually, I’m thrilled to say that I’ve completed my full year’s worth of micropoems for 2021, meaning that I no longer have to compose poems for this particular project. From here on out, I’ll only be posting these weekly compilations of micropoems on Fridays! Huzzah!

I hope you enjoy these tricubes!

Shabbat Shalom from Jerusalem,
David

A #tricube:

syllables
don't matter
when we speak

still, they serve
as meaning's
currency

for poets
that are spent
by tricubes

–#APoemADay #poem #poetry #poetrycommunity @Experimentsinfc #creativewriting #syllables #meaning #pun pic.twitter.com/05JBToPAIq
— Skeptic's Kaddish (@kaddish_s) October 30, 2021

A #tricube:

If you could
pack all you
are into

Three boxes,
how would you
label them?

I always
start over
at the third.

–#APoemADay @Experimentsinfc #poetrycommunity #poem #poetry #introspection #identity #creativewriting pic.twitter.com/HhQZRtEXvJ
— Skeptic's Kaddish (@kaddish_s) October 31, 2021

A #tricube:

Our daughter
endlessly
expresses

her love for
us with hugs;
kisses; and

shouts of, "I
love you!" from
down the hall.

–@Experimentsinfc #APoemADay #poem #poetry #poetrycommunity #creativewriting #love #parenthood #childhood #love pic.twitter.com/81U4kOAy8m
— Skeptic's Kaddish (@kaddish_s) November 1, 2021

A #tricube:

Sighs, grasping
at straws for
ideas

Every phrase
wooden and
ungainly

Then words hit
him like a
ton of bricks

–#APoemADay @Experimentsinfc #poem #poetry #poetrycommunity #creativewriting #threelittlepigs #bigbadwolf pic.twitter.com/CRKZ5Elrsk
— Skeptic's Kaddish (@kaddish_s) November 2, 2021

A #tricube:

I am most
empowered
in #English.

Считаю
что русский
тоже мой.

{I feel that#Russian is
also mine.}

עברית, היא
שייכת
לעמי.

{#Hebrew, she
belongs to
my people.}

–#APoemADay @Experimentsinfc #languages #language #poem #poetry #creativewriting #identity #identities pic.twitter.com/1023DH1C9B
— Skeptic's Kaddish (@kaddish_s) November 3, 2021

A #tricube:

I know, I
know, I know,
I know, I

live, knowing
perfection
is merely

illusion;
still, I must
write just so

–@Experimentsinfc #APoemADay #perfectionism #selfawareness #introspection #sigh #poem #poetry #creativewriting #poetrycommunity pic.twitter.com/rkpuVVRHXO
— Skeptic's Kaddish (@kaddish_s) November 4, 2021

A #tricube:

He came on#hot and much
too heavy.

She froze fast
beneath his#cold, void gaze.

Thick pungent
breath stench was
just not right.

–#APoemADay #goldilocks @Experimentsinfc #poem #poetry #creativewriting #poetrycommunity #drunk #Alcohol #DRUGS pic.twitter.com/9mDNU0BG7y
— Skeptic's Kaddish (@kaddish_s) November 5, 2021