
Would you call them poetweets? Anyway, I'm sure I'm not the first, but I've become interested in the idea of Twitter poetry. Poems that can fit inside 140 characters. Examples:
evrywhr:i c mmnts crl'd back like lips frm ancnt teeth;evrywhr:i C the bones,their shapes ntwined in2 the flowrs of gd's infnite spirogrph
That one's exactly 140 chars, which is cool. Here's another:
I wlk nr hom:flwrs&mud&proof of lives livd wth jy&srrw&othr namelss thngs;wrlds story a pudl;tiny mmnt a cvrnus sky;blu wth hrt's own relish

Twitter is what has come to be called a "microblogging" platform. A way of publishing very small messages to large numbers of people. You might not find the time to write a long article in a blog, but you might find the time to post an interesting link you found, or make a quick comment on a news article. I'm sure I'm not the first to think it's also a good medium for poetry. I like the creative limitation that 140 characters gives you. In exchange, twitter gives you a whole new medium for your poetry: simultaneously posted to people's cell phones, facebook and twitter feeds.... very 21st century. And, as a bonus to the reader, if you don't like my poetry, you only need to suffer through 140 characters of it at the most!
Here's my twitter feed:
http://twitter.com/fergusson. Follow me! If you have Twitter poetry of your own, let me know - I'll link to it here, and in my various feeds and profiles.
Tweet, tweet!
Update... Here is a list of some links to other posts on Twitter Poetry:
Bird and Plane image is Machine, by Hambo. Creative Commons via Flickr.
Snowflake image is Flake on Snow by circulating. Creative Commons via Flickr.
3 Comments:
I have just released a Twitter online application for publishing and discussing a short verse poetry online. You may find it at: TwiHaiku - Twitter Poetry Channel
I think this is first serious attempt to make fusion of Twitter format and short verse form in one place.
I invite all to join the service and help it take off.
BR.
I've got a 30-day Twitter poetry experiment going for National Poetry Month. You can read about it on my blog:
http://www.worldclasspoetryblog.com/write-twitter-poem/03/28/2009/
You may also want to consider sending Twitter poems in Maxitweet form. I took your poem above and converted it on http://maxitweet.com into 140 characters:
Everywhereᅵsee momenʦ curled back▕ike▕i㎰╒rom ancѥnt teeth;everywhereᅵseethe bones,thઘr s㏊pes entw㏌ed ㏌tothe flowers of god’s㏌fin计e spirograph
And is it just me or do the characters add a new dimension to this poem, in words like "ancѥnt" and "thઘr s㏊pes" ?
You can write even longer Twitter poems with Maxitweet - up to 200 characters.
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