Who doesn’t like something extra nice crossing their feed? There’s so much nastiness to scroll through, and if it doesn't come directly, then it's indirect, by being quote-tweetedly shared by its critic. Seriously. Every June, vulgar visuals are broadcasted, not only by celebrants but by their critics.
And besides that, there’s the crazy complex busyness. The feed is a mess, posts with text commenting on a screenshot, all quoted-tweeted with yet more text followed by ellipses because the guy couldn’t be more concise—that kind of thing.
It has me missing the old creative constraints of 140 characters. (Yeah I’m one of those guys. I actually enjoyed the challenge. 🙂 )
So, a guy like me enjoys seeing the simple tweet of a short nice poem cross my feed. Limericks, I like. Haiku are nice, but for too many, they’re little more than interrupted prose. One old friend used to post nothing but three-lined shout outs, counting 5-7-5 syllables. I like to try for something with a little more of that traditional flavor. (To be sure, I have much room to grow and would like to.)
If you’d enjoy seeing the poetry I’m dropping on twitter, you can. At the end, I add a π, as a searchable endmark. (π reminds me of ποίημα / poiema, and it can also abbreviate Penjammin, so yay. 🙂 ) Anyway, it allows me to point you here: penjams.com/twitterpoems. Much of these are prompted poetry, written spur of the moment for fun and practice, but here’s a favorite haiku:
Morning mist floating
Up in early Autumn light…
Just pick a shape cloud!
Have a great week everyone.
-P
Penjammin grew up in a labyrinthine cavern. Later he ran with the wolves, enjoying life in the sweet scent of his game, until pirates landed and… (see “about” above). Get his eletters at penjams.com/subscribe.