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:
#fix
I can't #fix the crack, but light's streaming through upon dead and living both
#expert
not claiming to be an #expert; but "no fly zone" means: boots on the ground.
#gateway
on an innocent stroll through the hag's dark garden the #gateway vanished
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When it comes to partnership, some humans can make their lives alone – it’s possible. But creatively, it’s more like painting: you can’t just use the same colours in every painting. It’s just not an option. You can’t take the same photograph every time and live with art forms with no differences.
–Ben Harper (b. 1969)
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They’re all wonderful, David. โค๏ธ
โค๏ธ๐งก Jeff ๐งกโค๏ธ
๐ Jane ๐
Thanks David โค๏ธ
Love the first one, David.
Shavuah tov!
๐งก Dolly ๐งก ~ ืฉืืืข ืืื
I retweeted you. Thank you for sharing.
๐ฅฐ Molly ๐ฅฐ
a good reflection on current events (K)
๐ Terveen ๐
I so love that first one. So true.
And look at what just dropped into my inbox from a weekly newsletter I receive from Micha Boyett:
Leonard Cohen: Ring the bells that still can ring / Forget your perfect offering / Thereโs a crack, a crack in everything / Thatโs how the light gets in.
๐ Anna ๐
Nice ones, David. Anyone with an opinion is an expert these days. Scaryโฆ ๐
๐ Terveen ๐
“I can’t #fix the crack,
but light’s streaming through upon
dead and living both” Love this David! โค๏ธ๐๐
๐ Ken ๐