Magda Kapa

Gr./Ger. To and Fro. Twitter for words.©️ Instagram for 📷 ©️ Poetry books: All the Words, Losing Touch

[Magda Kapa @MagdaKapa]

"Losing Touch, beautifully illustrated with drawings by Elizabeth Adams, is a moving testament to the distanced, sometimes surreal, and melancholic unwelcome new normal we are still navigating two years later."
A review of Losing Touch by @roughghosts. Thank you!

[Joseph Schreiber @roughghosts]

Two poetry collections read in January: Losing Touch by Magda Kapa and Small Talk by Stephan Delbos @MagdaKapa @sdelbos https://t.co/pTaV4GjT8S

[Magda Kapa @MagdaKapa]

“It is an artifact inescapably involved in the world’s messiness — the world when the painting was made and the world now. Looking at paintings this way doesn’t spoil them. On the contrary,…”
Do read, “Seeing Beyond the Beauty of a Vermeer” by Teju Cole. https://t.co/p7DDyPZiBY

[George Szirtes @george_szirtes]

A crossing

They drugged the children
so they might sleep on the way.
The border was near,

an hour’s walk or so
in the dark. The world was closed:
now it lay open,

naked and exposed.
The map was all sheer edges.
You could fall from it

as if from a train.

[Magda Kapa @MagdaKapa]

Uncertain
A Photograph by Kgomotso “Neto” Tleane. Words by Emmanuel Iduma h/t ⁦@mimosaishere⁩ https://t.co/gaOLMkHNqT

[Magda Kapa @MagdaKapa]

Happy Mother’s Day to all mothers and all mothering humans. Rebecca Solnit wrote “Mother is both a noun and a verb.” and thus it can apply to more than the one person.

And an especially valuable reflection On Not Being a Mother by ⁦@cassandrabeth⁩ https://t.co/zkc5wuWe8n

[Magda Kapa @MagdaKapa]

@HelenMcClory 😱😱😱

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Best pop song till now. Worst hat.

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@sturdyAlex Well, Australia certainly wants to compete for who’s the best Finland this year.😮

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@CherylStrayed I just loved Bad Sisters and hope a second season will come out soon. The danish series Rita was a good find lately. I’ve just finished all 5 seasons.

[Magda Kapa @MagdaKapa]

Three minutes with most powerful insights! #RIPHarryBelafonte

[Matina Stevis-Gridneff @MatinaStevis]

Χριστός Ανέστη.
Happy Easter to fellow Orthodox Christians.
Special thoughts again this year with our Ethiopian and Ukrainian brethren.

[Magda Kapa @MagdaKapa]

@exitthelemming @Wikipedia Some Saturday evenings are full of unexpected pleasures. 😂

[Magda Kapa @MagdaKapa]

Midnight tonight marks a historical moment for Germany.

Germany Quits Nuclear Power, Ending a Decades-Long Struggle - The New York Times https://t.co/nhPrXvg5NG

[Magda Kapa @MagdaKapa]

I’ve just found this and I think it’s wonderful!
@alex_kozobolis - Where London Sleeps https://t.co/4hFwdoBllE

“A surreal dream like depiction of how Alex came to fall in love with the piano, through borrowing a Thelonious Monk CD from a friend.”

Illustration - Will Scobie

[Magda Kapa @MagdaKapa]

@morningporch Thank you, Dave! Just found it!

[Dave Bonta @morningporch]

Big bi-weekly edition of the poetry blogging digest. Can’t be arsed to @-mention everybody on this dying platform, but here’s the link: https://t.co/kE5DtvCIHM

[Magda Kapa @MagdaKapa]

“I can’t afford to hate anyone. I don’t have that kind of time.”
— Akira Kurosawa

[Magda Kapa @MagdaKapa]

Switzerland.
After quite some time neglecting it, a new entry in the category #traveloque in my blog “I was not born in English” https://t.co/bALDKDoqFo

[Magda Kapa @MagdaKapa]

I’ve unlearned the ways
of the night. Familiar
noises seem strange,

eerie places of
fantasy, even out of
a dubious mind.

That lion’s howl must
be the wind under a bridge.
Also the zoo is

just a mile away.

[George Szirtes @george_szirtes]

You walk the city
you know, forgetting its streets.
You are heading home

to the heart of things,
hearing your own heart only.
How you lose yourself

in familiar
entrances and exists, through
passages and squares

where no one now lives.

[Magda Kapa @MagdaKapa]

@simsa0 Thank you.

[Magda Kapa @MagdaKapa]

My relationship to Twitter is ambivalent at the moment but there was a lot of love between us when I, 10 years ago this month, started writing here daily aphorisms that became a 2013 year's project and my first small poetic collection All The Words https://t.co/WyKRrrsLPt