Twitter: A Pleiades Poem

January 24, 2013 by aintnoninny 7 Comments

As usual, my mind works in mysterious ways.

I was thinking about Twitter and how, as a poet or an author or a blogger, you can only tweet very short posts that say very little (unless, of course, you post your thoughts in a blog and reference the blog post from Twitter).  It is always a challenge to condense a thought into 140 characters or less. 

On the same day I had that thought about Twitter I received a poetry prompt to write a Pleiades.  A Pleiades is a short poem of seven lines and a title all starting with the same letter. It is named after the constellation Pleiades, a grouping of seven stars also known as the seven sisters.

So, I wrote a Pleiades about Twitter and posted it in my blog so that I could reference it on Twitter.  A complete circle.

Twitter
  The little bird speaks in short tweets
  Telling the world about life in 140 characters or less
  Trying to condense love to brief bursts of energy
  Tweet a little song, reply, then re-tweet another’s song
  The act of conversing disappears into the ether
  Time and distance are shortened but
  Then nothing much is said