A New Literary Form: Twitter Haiku
What’s the next step in the evolution of the Internet?
Collaborative poetry.
Or, as this former English major and techhead calls it, Twitter Haiku.
Now, from actual Twitter entries, I create haiku-like poems. They are three short lines with a surprise last line. (Haiku purists, please don’t count the syllables.)
Please reserve my 2008 Nobel Prize for Literature. Here we go!
Just Another DaySolving Rubik’s cube with hammer,
Taking Hannah to a party.
Oh how Macbookairs tempt me so!
Add More Saltpeter to Your Beer, Dad!Nothing like taking my twin daughters to a father-daughter dance to wear me out!
Dang, some of these college girls need to put on some cloths so I can focus!
I feel like making a word salad.
Yes, it’s literature for the Millennial Generation and others without long attention spans.
I can only imagine what T.S. Eliot’s Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock would look like had the great poet relied on Twitter as his Muse.
Yes, word salads indeed.
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Todd Epp
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When the grass grows
Some may say it's spring.
Hey, we're just happy Todd smokes it.
(p.s. that is [of course] the proper number of syllables.)
We made a site for Twitter Haikus - haikuvillage.com. we just put it online today.
A New Literary Form: Lotrees Twitter.
Das nächtliche Gebell
eines Hundes
Der Mond wirft
Monster an die Wand
Sand rieselt über das Land
Augendrücken
Schlafmodus
Hier: http://www.bublo.de/2008/06/02/lotrees-zwitschern-im-mai-auswahl/
Ein Lotree besteht aus sieben kurzen Versen und enthält insgesamt nicht mehr als 140 Zeichen. In einem Lotree kommunizieren Natur – Mensch – Technik in einem Augenblick miteinander. Lotrees entstehen im Rahmen von Twitter.