Twitter offers lots of opportunities for working your creative muscle in small ways. Various tweeters have established prompts and hashtags to inspire short micropoems and microstories. On twitter search for hashtags #LossLit #HeartSoup #wordchimes #MSpoetry and plenty more for a rich compendium of tasty little poetic titbits.
These are some of mine:
#underwater
Top Cats
Holly and Willow the cats,
Have found a wormhole in the slats.
They creep through and hide
Till the turn of the tide
And come home sporting boaters and spats.
These are some of mine:
#trance
Stood in a trance
at a busstop
I realised
my vacant gaze
had fallen
on a young woman
who was slowly
and deliberately
exposing her midriff
#capturedpoets
#JoyofDays
We shared the sunlit
joy of days
but unaccustomed
to its rays
you left
& have become
the Gothic author
of my sleepless
dreams
#RavensVeil
#climbintome
Climb into me she said
but the ladder
I had made
from flowers
& words
& feathers
was far too fragile
and crumbled beneath me
#stone
Stone-eyed
children
wander these
dark streets
to sleep on
granite pillows
soaked by tears and rain.
#underwater
It’s only
as I’m
drowning
here
eyes and
nose
full of
sudden wet sorrow
that I
can hear
the
mermaids sing
#lists
With
sharpie
she
listed my patent faults
a post-it
on the fridge.
I grated
my fingernails
down the black
memoboard
on the
door -
There’s
another,
she said.
#snapdragon
You seem
to follow
the
snapdragon path
cleared
by your
acerbic mother:
you, the
bud
she, the
wilting flower.
#petals
Hey,
don’t
love me like petals:
they
unfurl,
they
curl,
they
drop.
Love me
like
pine
needles –
fresh,
scintillating,
evergreen.
#myfavouritelie
How will
you love me?
What
colour, your sigh?
You’ll be
my what
that will
never die?
Of all of
yours
this is
my
favourite lie.
#Dusted
cocoa
1
Dusted
cocoa,
Demerara
sugar,
I’ll meet
you in the middle.
you,
me -
crunchy,
sweet.
2
so we did
the kitchen
in
dusted
cocoa
but as
Ben said
paint
would have been cheaper
3
...and
then dredge
with dusted
cocoa
for that
final decadent flourish.
Now lick.
#black satin
To thumping Clubland rhythms,
you dance out your pain
black satin and lace,
all hips and face,
you're beautiful,
Granddad.
#sudden glow
there was no
sudden glow
just an
undertow
dragging me into
this pool
of wine
Top Cats
Holly and Willow the cats,
Have found a wormhole in the slats.
They creep through and hide
Till the turn of the tide
And come home sporting boaters and spats.
#kiss
You want
to what?
Kiss me?
Ok...
Whatevs,
fill yer
boots.
No
tongues!
#quills
Grandma
kept geese;
took
goosedown and thread
to a
quilling bee.
Wasn't it
just a typo?
Nope.
Now
she keeps her pinions to herself.
#Universal Process
Un-likely
as it may seem
I’ve
never
r-eally
doubted
Sal-ly
was a
pro-fessional
prin-
cess
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