This year, I am attempting to become active on Twitter after having created an account last year to post 365 micropoems. Among other things, this means I will be responding to Twitter poetry prompts. Initially, I wasn’t planning on x-posting those here, but then I realized: if I don’t save my Twitter poems elsewhere, I’ll never again be able to find all of them.
Of course, I have written and will write plenty more Twitter poems that I’m not especially attached to, but I don’t want to lose the ones that speak to me. Below, I’m sharing three recent senryus I’m fond of. Each was a response to a one-word prompt:
#rainbows

#rainbows form after rainstorms, but devastation remains after war
#bottom

endless hopelessness at #bottom of my stomach vacuums in the wind
#paddle

I #paddle upstream through heart-currents to reclaim clear, tranquil waters
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–Ben Harper (b. 1969)
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Small poem, big message!
💚💘 Robert 💘💚
All three are beautiful, David. ❤️❤️❤️
✨🙏🏻✨ Jeff ✨🙏🏻✨
🙏✨🙏💫
The second one really encompasses the atmosphere right now. (K)
😦 Kerfe 😦
Nicely written senryus, David!
❤ Eugi ❤ ~ thank you!
My pleasure, David!
#paddle
“I #paddle upstream
through heart-currents to reclaim
clear, tranquil waters”
Love this!! ❤️👏👍
❤ ❤ Ken ❤ ❤
THey’re all very thought provoking but I especially like the observation about rainbows & war
❤ Worms ❤ ~ thanks so much.
# very timely poems – especially like the first one… it is so very true!
😦 Muri 😦 ~ I wish I didn’t feel that way