Twittle | Micropoetry | Invitation
Twittle On
All aboard the twittle train 🚂
James and Lucy both reminded me
It’s time to get my twittle on
so count the letters, prime the rhyme
and limber up the lexicon!
I’ve been a bit side-tracked lately with something called eudaimonia (it’s not a disease!) and I’ve let my twittling get a bit rusty. James, who himself has been indulging in ubuntu (you can’t eat it!), and Lucy who’s being the champion of change while on a Guinness Book of Records’ quest for the longest jumbo string (tweets, not noodles!), have both of their own volition (or, is that collusion?!) given me a poke to get back on the twittle train. 🚂
So what is a twittle you might ask
Good question.
A twittle is a 100-letter, 4-line micropoem.
Exactly 100 alphabet letters — numbers, punctuation, symbols, spaces etc. are not included in the count.
By definition, a twittle is a quatrain - a four line poem or verse with a rhyme scheme - but to make twittles more accessible, I’ve made the rhyming element an optional extra.