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 shadormas 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!
Shabbat Shalom from Jerusalem,
David
The Skeptic's Kaddish ๐ฎ๐ฑ 
Lovely ones, David. The ink will definitely never dry up. Youโre on an inking roll. ๐
๐ Terveen ๐
“Have I inked the cleverest verses I’ll ever deliver?” These moments of doubt seem to come with the territory for writers. Of course, the answer is “NO!” You will continue to write better and better poems until one day you become senile and begin to just ramble on. ๐ Very well-captured moment.
I also especially liked your poem about the pandemic. In the last few years, we have witnessed many events that we could never have imagined, including the pandemic. If someone had said there would be a run on toilet paper, you would have thought him a kook, right? If someone had told you all about a US president who would…You get my meaning. “Reality!”
Take care, David! โค
โค Cheryl โค – we had an egg shortage for a while in Israel when COVID-19 broke out! it was RIDICULOUS!
Wow! Eggs? Not so easy to find substitutes for as toilet paper.
Delightful each one and the poem about syllables is both beautiful and playful!!
๐ Muri ๐
I love this form. So versatile, yet compact. (K)
Me too, Kerfe!
โค
David
My favorite: crack words o-
pen, peel off the syl-
lables, flake
by flake, like
brilliant, beckoning, frac-
tured, magical eggs
Even your use of four distinct adjectives felt like a lexical expression of that flake by flake fracturing. Besides, I might have to use ” brilliant beckoning”–my kind of alliteration.
๐๐ George ๐๐