Twittle | Micropoetry | Invitation

Twittle On

All aboard the twittle train 🚂

Image assembled by author using author’s own words and train photo by Meatle from Pixabay

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.