Twitter Tweet Verse (Limerick & Haiku Prompt)
I sure hope many of you use (or at least are familiar with) Twitter. Because Twitter is today’s limerick and haiku topic. First, my limerick:
Twitter Jitters
By Madeleine Begun Kane
I really don’t mean to sound bitter,
But it’s hard to fit humor on Twitter.
Posting tweets so damn short
Is a challenging sport,
Cuz there’s no time for laughs — just a titter.
And now my Twitter haiku (senryu):
My tweets on Twitter:
Memories, links, mutterings.
Fragments of a life.
As you might have guessed, I use Twitter. If you’d like to, you can follow my Twitter Tweets here.
But now, of course, it’s your turn. Your assignment, should you choose to accept it, is to write some verse about Twitter. When you’ve posted your poem(s), please return here and add a direct link to your themed poetry, using Mr. Linky.
Limerick and Haiku Prompts Participants
| 1. Elephant Small | 2. Nickers and Ink | 3. Winnie the poohi |
UPDATE: Mr. Linky is now closed, but you can still add links to your verse about Twitter in the Comments. And if you’d like to participate in a new poetry prompt, you can always find my latest one here.
Technorati Tags: Twitter Humor, Tweet Humor, Poetry Prompts, Internet Verse, Haiku Prompts
October 10th, 2008 at 6:07 am
love the Limerick, Mad!
October 10th, 2008 at 10:55 am
Brevity: wit’s soul
But in these few characters
No room for body.
October 10th, 2008 at 11:44 am
Tweets are speedy to read, but so short
That our writing intentions they thwart.
Thus we either use links
To complete what we thinks
r 2 txtng wr 4ced 2 rsort.
October 10th, 2008 at 3:32 pm
Gotta love this - I was just closing an old blog on AOL and noticed that I was quite twitterish before I knew what it was. Great words, here!
October 10th, 2008 at 8:08 pm
Good stuff - let’s see if I can come up with anything.
October 11th, 2008 at 3:21 pm
Thanks everyone! And Shawn I enjoyed both of your Twitter poems! You could even fit your haiku on Twitter. :)
October 16th, 2008 at 7:11 pm
ah my first one out here :)
December 23rd, 2008 at 7:11 pm
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