Intro Dear friends, Welcome to our W3 Poetry Prompt, which goes live on Wednesdays at The Skeptic’s Kaddish. You may click here for a fuller explanation of W3; but here’s the ‘tld…| The Skeptic's Kaddish 🇮🇱
A two-person ‘Rengay’ By David R. and David B. dr- putting on the ritz taxpayers spared no expense it’s a ballroom blitz db- mirrors serve the vain as bread truth lies naked in the street dr- avatar the butter fairweather virtue signals eggman over easy db- dancers switch their masks honesty cheers counterfeit glass bends… Continue reading Carneficina, or: A rengay→| The Skeptic's Kaddish 🇮🇱
A Sijo we frame one another in stillness mistaking shapes for souls; our minds paint likenesses, gentle yet thin as remembered light; only by seeing this in ourselves can we ever truly see What Do You See 311 For WDYS, Sadje offers us a photo taken by Karsten Winegeart (Unsplash). The image shows a solitary… Continue reading Mistaking shapes, or: Souls→| The Skeptic's Kaddish 🇮🇱
A two-person ‘Rengay’ By Artie and David ac- naturally some well intended complaining is inevitable db- my cleverest counterpoints fly back proving my child’s wisdom ac- for the good they say — I only ignore because it’s just best for them db- her endless kisses land even as I protest — “I’m… Continue reading Karma in pigtails, or: A rengay→| The Skeptic's Kaddish 🇮🇱
A ‘Bop’ poem We carried memory through burning gates,our scrolls and language packed with loaves of flight,while empires rose and fell around our prayers,from Mainz to Fez, from Babylon through Spain—our bones in sundry soils, hearts in Zion,our way of life, an exile’s borrowed home.We kept our covenant with hope.From both ash and exile we… Continue reading Instructions, or: Not giving up→| The Skeptic's Kaddish 🇮🇱
Refuse to grow You’ll soon be glowing In the discomforting light Of stunted growth It’s a harsh world Where its builders banish Those who stay back Lay back While everything around them is changing What does adulthood look like? A mirage for many youth Soon the illusion That being an adult Brings immense freedom without… Continue reading REBLOG: ‘When I grow up’ by Benjamin Nambu→| The Skeptic's Kaddish 🇮🇱
The horoscope read, “The universe hums. Slow down and listen.” Her maximalist bedroom glittered with gilded nonsense; clinomania kept her enthroned beneath silk. A jeweled clutch dangled by its strap. Beside her, The Hitchhiker’s Guide lay open. She dreamed herself Trillian, adrift with Zaphod Beeblebrox and Slartibartfast, their tongue-twister names as ordinary as tea in… Continue reading As tea in outer space→| The Skeptic's Kaddish 🇮🇱
A two-person ‘Rengay’ By Pat and David pr- saw an old flame today aging has been toying with us all — I’m googling time travel db- verse uploaded for/ever my fragments reassembled pr- starting anew — the little voices in my head are being taught to play nice db- you call this progress? I liked… Continue reading Awkward glance, or: A rengay→| The Skeptic's Kaddish 🇮🇱
A Sijo I sing to the sudsy dishes and hang my rhymes with the wash; cart-wheels down the grocery aisles; ideas stick to soup cans; I fix, I fetch, I fund and still find time to chase down stanzas R…| The Skeptic's Kaddish 🇮🇱
Intro Dear friends, Welcome to our W3 Poetry Prompt, which goes live on Wednesdays at The Skeptic’s Kaddish. You may click here for a fuller explanation of W3; but here’s the ‘tld…| The Skeptic's Kaddish 🇮🇱
Intro Dear friends, Welcome to our W3 Poetry Prompt, which goes live on Wednesdays at The Skeptic’s Kaddish. You may click here for a fuller explanation of W3; but here’s the ‘tld…| The Skeptic's Kaddish 🇮🇱
Intro Dear friends, Welcome to our W3 Poetry Prompt, which goes live on Wednesdays at The Skeptic’s Kaddish. You may click here for a fuller explanation of W3; but here’s the ‘tld…| The Skeptic's Kaddish 🇮🇱
8 posts published by ben Alexander during September 2025| The Skeptic's Kaddish 🇮🇱
Intro Dear friends, Welcome to our W3 Poetry Prompt, which goes live on Wednesdays at The Skeptic’s Kaddish. You may click here for a fuller explanation of W3; but here’s the ‘tld…| The Skeptic's Kaddish 🇮🇱
8 posts published by ben Alexander during June 2025| The Skeptic's Kaddish 🇮🇱
Intro Dear friends, Welcome to our W3 Poetry Prompt, which goes live on Wednesdays at The Skeptic’s Kaddish. You may click here for a fuller explanation of W3; but here’s the ‘tld…| The Skeptic's Kaddish 🇮🇱
W3 ~ Wea’ve Written Weekly Friends, not so long ago, when we were marking 5,000 subscribers at The Skeptic’s Kaddish, I mentioned that I would be launching a new poetry prompt. I had in…| The Skeptic's Kaddish 🇮🇱
Intro Dear friends, Welcome to our W3 Poetry Prompt, which goes live on Wednesdays at The Skeptic’s Kaddish. You may click here for a fuller explanation of W3; but here’s the ‘tld…| The Skeptic's Kaddish 🇮🇱
8 posts published by ben Alexander during May 2024| The Skeptic's Kaddish 🇮🇱
A Sijo power casts its shadow cool shelter for those in its favor; yet in that same dark chill cruelty itself takes form and moves; me? I’m most gentle, most human when I keep my shadow short dR…| The Skeptic's Kaddish 🇮🇱
8 posts published by ben Alexander during August 2025| The Skeptic's Kaddish 🇮🇱
“At the time of the episode,” Dr. Levin said at the conference, “Subject C didn’t recall it was her birthday. When prompted, she said, ‘I feel like an invalid.’” It was, he noted, a revealing momen…| The Skeptic's Kaddish 🇮🇱
A Sijo we called her Banana Luli— she devoured them with gusto; now it’s mostly just Pink Ladies— just enough to dodge the guilt; I wish she got more vitamins… though I rarely eat bananas Tanka Tue…| The Skeptic's Kaddish 🇮🇱
Intro Dear friends, Welcome to our W3 Poetry Prompt, which goes live on Wednesdays at The Skeptic’s Kaddish. You may click here for a fuller explanation of W3; but here’s the ‘tld…| The Skeptic's Kaddish 🇮🇱
Intro Dear friends, Welcome to our W3 Poetry Prompt, which goes live on Wednesdays at The Skeptic’s Kaddish. You may click here for a fuller explanation of W3; but here’s the ‘tld…| The Skeptic's Kaddish 🇮🇱
Intro Dear friends, Welcome to our W3 Poetry Prompt, which goes live on Wednesdays at The Skeptic’s Kaddish. You may click here for a fuller explanation of W3; but here’s the ‘tld…| The Skeptic's Kaddish 🇮🇱
Intro Dear friends, Welcome to our W3 Poetry Prompt, which goes live on Wednesdays at The Skeptic’s Kaddish. You may click here for a fuller explanation of W3; but here’s the ‘tld…| The Skeptic's Kaddish 🇮🇱
Intro Dear friends, Welcome to our W3 Poetry Prompt, which goes live on Wednesdays at The Skeptic’s Kaddish. You may click here for a fuller explanation of W3; but here’s the ‘tld…| The Skeptic's Kaddish 🇮🇱
Intro Dear friends, Welcome to our W3 Poetry Prompt, which goes live on Wednesdays at The Skeptic’s Kaddish. You may click here for a fuller explanation of W3; but here’s the ‘tld…| The Skeptic's Kaddish 🇮🇱
