I don’t know, or: Try not to

44 thoughts on “I don’t know, or: Try not to”

1. I can totally relate to every single one of these lines. My favorite is “Shuffle amidst the zombie herds”—such a great line!

   1. 💜🙏🏻 Bridgette 🙏🏻💜 ~ that’s my favorite line too!

      ~David

2. Love both poems…it’s how I feel some nights.

   1. 🖤🙏🏻 Jai 🙏🏻🖤 ~ you and me both

      1. 🤷‍♀️🖤

         1. 🤗

3. Excellent descriptive poems about insomnia! It really is a dreadful thing to not be able to sleep!

   1. 💛🙏🏻 Muri 🙏🏻💛 ~ yep

4. 2 Great poems Marvin and David!

   I don’t know either
   but of these fitful nights
   nothing seeming right,
   keeping me up all night.
   Tossing and over turning
   down the cliff,
   I wake unscathed but am I?

   Damn Ollie kept me up all night. 🙀😾

   1. 💕🙏🏻 Cindy 🙏🏻💕 ~ that’s simply excellent! (The poem, I mean!)

      1. oh thanks for a minute of fun to play with you here! ❣️

5. Both interesting poems, Ben.

   1. Thanks, Roberta!

      ~David [ben Alexander]

      1. Sorry, David, that is the second time I’ve done that. I think David and then “oh no, that’s not right.” Silly me!

         1. 😘 🤗 Roberta 🤗 😘

6. To Marvin: we’ve all been there. 😔 Your creative response made the thought of insomnia interesting. 😁

   1. 💙🙏🏻 Michele 🙏🏻💙

   2. That’s great to hear and I also love the reply from Ben it’s a great honor to participate in this exchange 🙂

      1. Marvin – the honor was all mine ❤

         BTW, please feel free to call me ‘David’ ~ that is my name.

         The word ‘ben’ simply means ‘son of’ in Hebrew, and my father’s name was ‘Alexander’. I created my blog in his memory, you see.

         I know it’s confusing because ‘Ben’ is also a popular name in English ~ sorry about the confusion!

         Much love,
         David

         1. It’s my pleasure, thank you David it’s an addition to my vocabulary 🙂 now I know the beautiful meaning of your blog.

            1. *hug*

      2. A wonderful collaboration. Well done you two!

7. A beautiful partnership 🙂

   1. 🤍🙏🏻 Ange 🙏🏻🤍

8. That is such a good capture of insomnia! As you note in your response, the world is too much with us sometimes. (K)

   1. 🧡🙏🏻 Kerfe 🙏🏻🧡

9. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

   1. 💜🙏🏻 Filipa 🙏🏻💜

10. I don’t know what to say besides – THIS IS GREAT!!

    1. 🙏🏻 💟 Terveen 💟 🙏🏻 ~ thanks so much!

11. Good response to the poem. How does it work?

    1. how does what work, Sadje? ❤

       1. This poetry in partnership?

          1. Oh! 😁

             Well, the way ‘Poetry Partners’ works is that people share their poems with me, and I write poems of my own inspired by their’s. Then I post both together ❤️

             The link is here:

             https://skepticskaddish.com/poetry-partners/

             1. Thanks! I’ll find a good poem for submitting

             2. I’ve just submitted my poem; Refiguring ideas.

             3. Received it! Thanks so much ❤️

             4. Thanks David. I hope it meets the criteria?

             5. Sadje, there aren’t really any criteria… It just a fun thing to do 😁

             6. Thanks David

12. Since I no longer have a bird, I’ve no use for newspapers anymore. 😉

    1. 😀 Annette 😀 ~ what kind of bird did you have?

       1. Finches

          1. cute birds!

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