Too terribly often we come across ideas that make us scream, “Why didn’t I think of that!?”, but at Target Audience Magazine we like to take those ideas and reinvent them to inspire across genres. Recently, I came across a post at EditRed.com where an uninspired newbie to Twitter thought up one of those ideas. Twitter poetry may well be the modern Haiku. Of his idea he writes,
“Well, it really started with me signing up on Twitter after seeing a news article about Asthon Kutcher challenging CNN to see who could get one million followers first.
It piqued my curiosity as to what exactly was Twitter. At first, I found its simplistic page boring, but then I thought to myself, "Can these 140 characters be used for something new, creative, and artsy?" Knowing I would get the best response on a writer’s site, I posted my idea at EditRed.
I was fairly surprised it got some attention from some of the greater writers. As for the one I posted on here, it came to me when one of my friends told me to send her a text reminding her to ask permission to hang out with me the coming weekend. Given that she always liked when I wrote poetry for her, it seemed like a nice way to remind her.
Twitter Sized Poem
By Carlos Perez
Call this a reminder,
An annoyance in your hinder.
Or call it as you know'em.
A Twitter sized poem.
So, let’s all tackle the task of tweeting poems! Send your best tweeted ideas to Target Audience Magazine for a special sidebar in the Summer issue about the modern Haiku and thanks to Carlos Perez for such an inspiring idea!