Micropoetry

[CharleyH]

I have been thinking about Twitter as a medium for writing micropoetry and microfiction. Have any of you done anything like this? If so (or if not) what do you think of the experience?

 

[bronzeage]

I can't manage to reduce coherent thoughts to 140 characters. No matter how I pare it down, something is truncated. The other day I said, “

 

[butters]

I have been thinking about Twitter as a medium for writing micropoetry and microfiction. Have any of you done anything like this? If so (or if not) what do you think of the experience?

hmmmn, i've some tiny poms'd fit into the space but rarely go there. never enough time to go all the places i want. microfiction, though? that's got to be way harder to convey, parcel and succeed within the parameters. not read anyone doing it, so couldn't say if they make it work.

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hello, charley!

 

[UnderYourSpell]

I haven't Tweeted for a very long time but yes I did see Haiku when I was on there

 

[Tzara]

I have been thinking about Twitter as a medium for writing micropoetry and microfiction. Have any of you done anything like this? If so (or if not) what do you think of the experience?

twitter poem

the ocean / still as a sleeping cat / in its eternal, twitchy way / always chases a rat




I've never used Twitter, so I don't know if it supports line feeds, which would make a difference. I would think it was clear that one could write poetry, even good poetry (not, by the way, what I posted) in 140 characters. I'd guess most haiku would be under that limit.

Fiction would be a problem, I think. Fiction needs character development, and that cannot be done (at least I sincerely doubt it can be done) in 140 characters.

 

[CharleyH]

I like the thought of using Twitter for an artistic purpose. For myself, (I don't own a cell or any portable device other than my laptop) I can't imagine using it for any other purpose other than to possibly follow news. I think it would be a challenge, certainly in regards to microfiction, but also micropoetry and I do have a fondness for haiku and the cinquain, even if I'm not an expert of either form.

I'm hearing more and more about the twihaiku, although I think that's just a reference to posting haiku on Twitter rather than being anything new per se (I will have to look into the twoosh as referenced in the article linked below), but it does make me wonder if the revival of haiku, through social media, is having an impact on the form.

*waves to butters*

Did you do any poetry when you were posting on Twitter, UYS?

Hm, I'm not sure if Twitter supports lines, Tzara, but yes, it would make a major difference. I used to follow a blog by a girl who only wrote microfiction. It was hit and miss, but she did have a few really good ones and the others were always just fun to read as a kind of process. I think Twitter might be better for writing vignettes, although I always get a kick out of Hemmingway's six word story: "For sale: baby shoes, never worn."

Here's a link to an article I found, if anyone is interested: Twihaiku? Micropoetry? The rise of Twitter poetry

 

[danielblue]

I published an ebook of tweetable limericks and stories of less than 140 characters. It was a real fun exercise to do.

It is available free of charge if you would like a copy. On itunes:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/naughty-in-less-than-140-characters***624224669?mt=11

or in PDF and epub for other devices:

http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/danielblue

I would like to think that it raises a smile or two and that some of the limericks are being bounced around the twittersphere.

 

[danielblue]

Charley H said:

Hm, I'm not sure if Twitter supports lines

I use a slash to denote the end of a line.

 

[Angeline]

Charley, this is the article I was telling you about. Not micropoetry but poems made into sonnets from tweets that are (not by design) in iambic pentameter. Pretty funny and some pretty good!

I don't do Twitter myself. I have too much going on already without another social media distraction from what I should be doing.

 

[UnderYourSpell]

I like the thought of using Twitter for an artistic purpose. For myself, (I don't own a cell or any portable device other than my laptop) I can't imagine using it for any other purpose other than to possibly follow news. I think it would be a challenge, certainly in regards to microfiction, but also micropoetry and I do have a fondness for haiku and the cinquain, even if I'm not an expert of either form.

I'm hearing more and more about the twihaiku, although I think that's just a reference to posting haiku on Twitter rather than being anything new per se (I will have to look into the twoosh as referenced in the article linked below), but it does make me wonder if the revival of haiku, through social media, is having an impact on the form.

*waves to butters*

Did you do any poetry when you were posting on Twitter, UYS?

Hm, I'm not sure if Twitter supports lines, Tzara, but yes, it would make a major difference. I used to follow a blog by a girl who only wrote microfiction. It was hit and miss, but she did have a few really good ones and the others were always just fun to read as a kind of process. I think Twitter might be better for writing vignettes, although I always get a kick out of Hemmingway's six word story: "For sale: baby shoes, never worn."

Here's a link to an article I found, if anyone is interested: Twihaiku? Micropoetry? The rise of Twitter poetry

Hard to remember but I doubt I did any haiku. I post poetry on Facebook but whenever I've put anything on there resembling haiku vrosej10 tells me I'm doing it wrong!

 

[Neonurotic]

Hard to remember but I doubt I did any haiku. I post poetry on Facebook but whenever I've put anything on there resembling haiku vrosej10 tells me I'm doing it wrong!

Don't call it a haiku. Write any little poem you feel like.

 

[UnderYourSpell]

Don't call it a haiku. Write any little poem you feel like.

Oh bless you but she tells me anyway

 

[CharleyH]

Good stuff. Thanks, Ang, for the article and danielblue for links.

Tzara: I posted a cinquain to my Twitter today and you will be happy to note that Twitter does indeed support lines.

PS. I still don't "get" how Twitter works, yet. lol

 

[UnderYourSpell]

Good stuff. Thanks, Ang, for the article and danielblue for links.

Tzara: I posted a cinquain to my Twitter today and you will be happy to note that Twitter does indeed support lines.

PS. I still don't "get" how Twitter works, yet. lol

you do realise that people who write Cinquains for pleasure are very suspect don't you?

 

[CharleyH]

lol - At least I am focused!

 

[Remec]

you do realise that people who write Cinquains for pleasure are very suspect don't you?

lol - At least I am focused!

I shall have to go over the link of forms and reread about the cinquains now. (And I'm still behind in getting Annie a monster poem I owe her. *sigh*)

 

[Ashesh9]

I have been thinking about Twitter as a medium for writing micropoetry and microfiction. Have any of you done anything like this? If so (or if not) what do you think of the experience?

have just posted on Twitter a micropoem ----

Rockets zoom Space / Cars zip Highway / Shadows creep Imagination


the excitin' thing about Micropoems are this a latest cuttin'-edge art-form & we r the pioneer generation : there is no need to carry the iambic baggage or Swinbourne Syndrome into this spankin' Nu Art form

 

[UnderYourSpell]

have just posted on Twitter a micropoem ----

Rockets zoom Space / Cars zip Highway / Shadows creep Imagination


the excitin' thing about Micropoems are this a latest cuttin'-edge art-form & we r the pioneer generation : there is no need to carry the iambic baggage or Swinbourne Syndrome into this spankin' Nu Art form

I wouldn't say they are particularly new because as I said it's years since I tweeted and they were being posted than

 

[butters]

I wouldn't say they are particularly new because as I said it's years since I tweeted and they were being posted than

and before that, there were simply 'shorts'. but i guess everything's new to us all, once upon a lifetime

 

[UnderYourSpell]

and before that, there were simply 'shorts'. but i guess everything's new to us all, once upon a lifetime

like sex ........ young people think they've invented it

 

[butters]

like sex ........ young people think they've invented it

let 'em, while they still have the stamina to believe it

 

[Ashesh9]

like sex ........ young people think they've invented it

Oldies/ cynical Seen-it-all / Youth / brash Know-it-all / Politicians / Steal-it-all

 

[butters]

is it harder to avoid the cliché with twicro poetry?

 

[Ashesh9]

is it harder to avoid the cliché with twicro poetry?

Cliche :
Stereo-typed Mental Straitjacket
Antidote:
Alert Awareness

 

[todski28]

is it harder to avoid the cliché with twicro poetry?

I guess you just have to be more creative and think it through more, all cliche's started out at some point as a wonder, being diluted of effect by constant usage.

This could be an interesting way to bring poetry to those that don't know or think about it at all like a poetry for the masses Oneiria would smash it