2021 – The skeptic's kaddish

Twitter poetry 2021: Week 2

January 15, 2021February 12, 2021 ben Alexander38 Comments

My blogger-poet-friend Ingrid inspired me to create a Twitter account and start writing #APoemADay, which I began on January 1, 2021. Below is my second week of Twitter poems: Shabbat Shalom from Jerusalem,David https://twitter.com/kaddish_s/status/1347845574750392323 https://twitter.com/kaddish_s/status/1348207959097151488 https://twitter.com/kaddish_s/status/1348570347499524096 https://twitter.com/kaddish_s/status/1348932734111006720 https://twitter.com/kaddish_s/status/1349295122073014272 https://twitter.com/kaddish_s/status/1349657517358387209 https://twitter.com/kaddish_s/status/1350019898068529154

Dreams, or: Stanzas

January 12, 2021October 7, 2021 ben Alexander33 Comments

An emoji 'free verse' In a moment, 🧗‍♂️ it would be over again and he'd 🧗‍♂️ have to start over in the next... no, not this time. Grunting, 🤏 hand over hand, he scaled the 🧗‍♂️ uneven face of 🤏 the dream cliff, fingers 🤏 aching with the weight of his body 🧗‍♂️ as the… Continue reading Dreams, or: Stanzas

Twitter poetry 2021: Week 1

January 8, 2021February 12, 2021 ben Alexander33 Comments

My blogger-poet-friend Ingrid inspired me to create a Twitter account and start writing #APoemADay, which I began on January 1, 2021. As Ingrid herself has written, micropoetry is a unique challenge because I want to feel free to write poems without restrictions, ones that I feel reflect something meaningful. Still, I am hoping to meet… Continue reading Twitter poetry 2021: Week 1