I need to tell you in all sincerity that picking two favorites out of your tweets was difficult beyond description. I truly enjoyed all of the writing that came out of the poetwist200 list. Applause to all

Fave pick #1

gather the cracked and brittle shards /…

therer2doors - aka - Angie Werren

I really liked how this poem juxtaposed opening sharpness with the softness of a new day dawning, and how beautifully it balances an underlying hope against the realism and angst of doubt. Poetically, I really like the spareness of the piece and that each and every word is critical to the poem. Overall I get the sense of trying to recover something that has broken, which is powerfully impacting and effective (for me).

Thanks for the wonderful contribution Angie.

Fave pick #2

frothing stacked goblets/…

Kate_TW - aka Kate Temple-West

This poem really got me with its vivid visual imagery that is paired perfectly (for me) with the innuendo I read in the poem.

The whole piece calls to my mind the image of a wedding, guests attired to the nines about to toast the happy couple. But, there is something dark and edgy lurking around that the speaker in the poem knows about. Perhaps one of the happy couple was spied 20 minutes ago in the back seat of the limo with the others best friend? I of course don’t know what the poet had in mind, but there are myriad possibilities, and the poem ignites my imagination to try and conjure up what underlies the rich imagery of this scene. I find that very compelling and enjoyable indeed.

Thank you Kate, for your wonderful contribution.

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Rules?

Now, being that I am awfully fond of discarding most rules as I see fit, I have to tip my hat to our leading resident rule breaker Carlton Halpert for the stunning use of all 91 poetwist200 words. Sigh…I can only say, I wish I’d have thought of trying it myself.

Not that I could have rivaled in anyway, the ballad of baxter which is comprised of 12 haiku interlacing potentially autobiographical facets of the mysterious Baxter. The sense of the sureal in this is as profound, as it is enchanting.

My personal fave chapters are 3 & 12, but I find the whole greater even than the sum of its wonderful haiku-vignette components. The incomplete mosaic of the character writing is beyond intriguing. Perhaps there will be more messages home from Baxter? We can only hope…

Thanks Carlton for the inspiring, wonderful contribution - I really do hope we hear more from Baxter.

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Most Words Used

Well, wouldn’t you know - we have three-way tie for most words used.

So here they are, all tweeting in at 14 of the poetwist200 words in a single tweet. And they all achieved this feat while still saving space to include the poetwist hash tag. Very impressive.

Back just in time for the 200th prompt - jeremylewit - with:  blind as limbo/…

And a very new writter in the poetwist crowd - Kate_TW  - with:  again in limbo/…

Finally, one of our long standing poetwist regulars - tumblewords - with:  novice faith in limbo/…

Hmm, limbo limbo limbo - wonder what’s up with that…

Thanks and congratulations to everyone for making this such a wonderful celebration of the 200th poetwist prompt. Here’s hoping we’ll all be writing and reading together for another 200 at least

Cheers & ta!

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Today marks the 200th writing prompt for poetwist on Twitter.  Congrats & thanks to all of you!!  To celebrate this little milestone, we’re doing something a bit different than the usual.

All the info you need is in a short PDF here:  poetwist200.pdf

For my blog buddies who don’t do the Twitter gig, I’d really love for you to participate too, so if you’re into this please go for it and leave your ‘tweet’ in the comments here. Remember, a tweet is a maximum of 140 characters long.

Wishing everyone a wonderful time with today’s write - I’m already looking forward to reading everything

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We’re having a little tw’elabration for the 100th poetwist writing prompt on twitter, and everyone’s invited whether you tweet or not.

You can either join in here at The Pedestrian Crossing or over on twitter - whatever gig you’re into. I really hope to see you, one place or the other.

The First 95 is a link to a pdf containing the first 95 word prompts I posted on twitter.

So, here’s the deal. Write a micropoem, or piece of microprose using as many of the first 95 words as you can within the 140 character limit.

If you’re tweeting, you’re used to the 140 character gig, and for those of you blogging you can count characters (140 max including spaces & punctuation), or you can write up to 20 words - which won’t be exactly the same, but close enough.

Tweeple, I’ll see you on twitter.

Bloggers, if you would post your microwrites in the comments here I’ll check back in a few days so I can reply to everyone who writes

I’m looking forward to reading everyone’s wonderful creations!!

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Greetings all - some highlights from poetwist / twitter me this.

Some of these tweets are in response to my ‘twitter me this’ prompts, and some are not.

And remember, no judgmenty stuff from me. I’m not saying anything is good - or that it isn’t good.

I’m just saying the tweets I link to are particularly resonant for me.
I hope you like them too.

Enjoy!

fireland	ms_karen	lissawrites
twitter_poet	CitySelma	jadefrog
janiasea	Crenel	Quaskimodo
whypaisley	Quaskimodo	poetwist

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Previous:  highlights post#1  –

If you would like to join the fun please do. You can read about how it works in this post and this post. Or just check out poetwist and join right in

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I’m going to be doing something new I think you may enjoy.

Starting today, I’m going to periodically do a post with links to some twitter posts (called ‘tweets’) that I fancy for one reason or another.

Some of these tweets will be in response to my ‘twitter me this’ prompts, and some will not. And I may well link to some of my own tweets now and then - once in a while I do actually like what I write

And you’ll get no judgmenty stuff from me. I’m not saying anything is good - or that it isn’t good. Frankly, I couldn’t define ‘good’ if you put a gun to my head.

I’m just saying the tweets I link to are particularly resonant for me. Maybe you’ll like some of them too.

<> a tweet from janaisea

<> a tweet from Quaskimodo

<> a tweet from CitySelma

<> a tweet from lissawrites

<> a tweet from poetwitter

<> a tweet from Ms_Karen

<> a tweet from midnightstories

I’m not going to do a consistent quantity of links, nor will I do these posts on any set schedule. But I’m finding a lot of writing on twitter very interesting, so it won’t be too long between treats.

If you liked what you saw in these links, check out more by the writers, and check out the other folks doing this kind of micro-writing on twitter.

140 definitely rocks…

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I’ve had an idea for using Twitter to do prompted writing for almost a year, and I’ve finally gotten it together. Many thanks to my friend & colleague JA for kicking my butt on this repeatedly over the last month.

Each day, Monday through Friday, I’m pulling a random word from the dictionary and posting it for writing responses.

You have 140 characters to put together a cogent piece of writing. Any kind of writing is fine of course, it just needs to make some sort of sense.

Working to such a tight character limit encourages every letter, space, and punctuation mark to really matter, to really be essential.

This is an excellent way to build writing muscle, vocabulary, and precise phrasing.

And I am having a heck of a good time with it, I must say.

You can read and participate via the following link. My screen name for this is poetwitter  poetwist and my real name (Kayt Hoch) is in my profile, as is my avatar.

Twitter is easy to sign up for and its free.

I hope to be twittering with you soon !

A couple of tips:

<<>> putting up your avatar or some image is really useful for people who are following you

<<>> the phone setup (if you want to update via your phone) requires your country code (without zeros) in front of your phone number for it to work right

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