A tradition fallen out of fashion, I find it a shame we’re not often telling ghost stories at Christmas time.
Random Acts of Poetry: Noel Ghosts
In a Random Acts of Poetry celebration, poet David K. Wheeler has invited us to write about our Christmas ghosts: past, present, or future.
As Easy as Pie 2
Below are seven more poems from our recent poetry jam (or was it poetry pie?) on Twitter.
As Easy As Pie
The Twitter poetry party topic was pie.
Governments of Tea 7 (and the finale)
The final six poems from our recent Twitter poetry party.
Governments of Tea 6
Below are six more poems edited from our recent Twitter poetry party, all inspired and prompted by The Republic of Tea
Governments of Tea 5
Here are five more poems from our recent Twitter poetry party, with the prompts taken from The Republic of Tea
Governments of Tea 4
Tea poems you can drink up. Including Orion, catholic schools, and jazz. Not your ordinary fare.
Governments of Tea 3
Here are six more poems from our recent Twitter poetry party on Tea
Governments of Tea 2
Here are the next four poems from our recent Twitter poetry party. The subject of tea takes a business, then political, and finally a personal, turn.
Governments of Tea
Well, everyone brought a teacup filled with tea to our recent Twitter poetry party
Robotics in Verse 4
This completes the series of poems from July’s Twitter poetry party here at TweetSpeak Poetry.
Doubt Palace by Bradley Moore
TweetSpeak Poetry is joining the One Shot Wednesday fun at One Stop Poetry. We’ve chosen “Doubt Palace” by Bradley Moore, to feature as our (that’s the imperial “our”) collective contribution. Mr. Moore’s poetry blog is And the Other Thing Is. When he’s not writing poetry, he’s writing about business stuff at Shrinking the Camel. One Shot […]
Bring Your Own Tea to the Twitter Party
we’d like you to drink the tea of your choice at the party, and tweet a photo of your favorite tea cup sometime during the proceedings
Robotics in Verse 3
Here are seven more poems in our “Robotics in Verse” series from the recent Twitter poetry party.
Robotics in Verse 2
It’s been a few days since I posted the first poems from our most recent Twitter poetry party. I have no excuse other than it’s been busy – a wedding, a funeral, a baptism, some travel, normal life. You know how it is.
Robotics in Verse
At last Tuesday’s Twitter poetry party, all poetic prompts were from Robert Pinsky’s Death and the Powers
Marcus Goodyear and Barbies at Communion
You see your young daughter playing with her Barbie dolls in church while communion is being served, and the result is a poem. You read an article about a super-collider, and a poem results (for Mother’s Day, no less). You’re cutting your lawn that’s browning in the Texas heat, and a poem results. Welcome to […]
Poems by Shaun Masterton
It was through poet and writer Lesley Moon that I connected with Shaun Masterton. He is a Scot with two passions – poetry and American football. He publishes poems and talks about football at his blog, shaunmasterton.com. I’ve liked the poetry he publishes on his blog, and so I decided to take a look at the […]
Terrance Hayes’ “Lighthead: Poems”
To read Lighthead: Poems by Terrance Hayes is to enter a world that’s distinctly uncomfortable, almost jarring, as if the familiar has become dislocated. Perhaps it’s like experiencing lightheadedness, except it’s experiencing it as a state of normal. And you know this from the beginning of this collection of poems: “Ladies and gentlemen, ghosts and […]