Twitter Poetry

I occasionally write a bit of twitter poetry- the aim of which is to start with a single image and construct a verse around it of 140 characters or less. I really enjoy doing this, more as a little mind exercise than anything else although I appreciate that some work better than others. Although it's easiest to write the poems in a twitter message (because then I can keep tabs on the pesky character number which spends more of its time red and with a minus next to it than I'd care to admit), I've decided to collect them here as well and will add to them as I write. These are all the ones I could find that I've written in the last nine months or so.

I'm always on the look out for new words as I find an external source makes for the most interesting constructions so if you'd like to please suggest a word (and I will have a go at pretty much any word), it would be really helpful to me!

Shimmering 23/10/15

Nightly the land lies

Besotted by an inky heat.

Above

A heavy moon

Dips towards water

To watch it shimmering-

And finds relief

Autumn 23/10/15

Joyous rage!

The earth atomwise

Becoming Icarus

In the flames.

Consumed

She falls

And stoops-

Reclaiming quietly

A smoky haze.

Bustle 23/10/15

At 8:50

The clouds charge by

Forgotten in the sky

By those beneath.

Until the rain

Reminds them

Of the blueness

In between.

Rust 23/10/15

Unfathomed strength

To bear unnatural load

She lists & bows.

Onward

Through tears

As flakes of burnished snow

cascade& drown

A Plate of Cherries 02/06/15

Shiny hearts

So gorgeous

In the sun-

I discarded stones

Let juices run.

But cooler now

I wait the fall

Perhaps they

Weren't sweet

After all.

Twilight in Winter

As breath rose

Through silhouetted branches

Like fingers

Entwined&

Reaching up

Toward an ink-spill sky,

We walked.

Untitled 05/01/15

I Long for Spring!

Apple-bright & clean

To brace my skin

Against the laughing air

And thrill-

Before the land

Turns honeyed,

Warming

Still.

Kindling 02/06/15

So brittle lies

The kindling

Stacked round their

leafy brethren

Awaiting

That first flicker

To bring themselves alive