@TopTweetTuesday

Weekly poetry platform run by @blackboughpoems - every Tuesday, imagist/ imagistic poems only that are 20 lines or less https://xitter.cf/t.co/Rcm0I2LRZe

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Tuesday 20th October @TopTweetTuesday - only on Twitter. Optional themes - journey, edge, revelation. 80 words max, imagistic writing, no cliches or stock images/ phrases. Inventive!!! Get poetic.
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Late as always but trying to get back into it, my take on a reflection @TopTweetTuesday @blackboughpoems thank you as always @MatthewMCSmith 🫶✨#poetry #poem #toptweettuesday #whatdopeoplehashtag
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Anthony J.P@antJP01Oct 13
A meditation on vision and reflection, thinking of a time before ‘Polished Metal’ @TopTweetTuesday @blackboughpoems @MatthewMCSmith
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Vikki C.@VWC_WritesOct 13
On the prompt of reflection and vision, a poem for @TopTweetTuesday (with a nod to Sylvia) ON IMAGE Thank you, as always, to @MatthewMCSmith for the inspiration which evoked expansive themes: desire, envy, spectacle, the spiritual. @blackboughpoems #poetrycommunity #poetry
ON IMAGE “Most of the time, I meditate on the opposite wall.”— Sylvia Plath, ‘Mirror’ How I was taught—give face, say little like a Buddhist, though I’ve no real faith. Just myself to blame—wrong house. Wrong mirror. Too soon, they pass up the pine stairway —daring to look only once. See? Unbearable just being Beloved. Hearing your name called from another room blank of sugar. To hook your beauty. Then fly out of this frame. One wing says to its other: I need. You too. The exotic bird repeats against glass—becomes greener than its throat. Vikki C.

ALT ON IMAGE “Most of the time, I meditate on the opposite wall.”— Sylvia Plath, ‘Mirror’ How I was taught—give face, say little like a Buddhist, though I’ve no real faith. Just myself to blame—wrong house. Wrong mirror. Too soon, they pass up the pine stairway —daring to look only once. See? Unbearable just being Beloved. Hearing your name called from another room blank of sugar. To hook your beauty. Then fly out of this frame. One wing says to its other: I need. You too. The exotic bird repeats against glass—becomes greener than its throat. Vikki C.

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Sarah Raybould@raybould_drsOct 13
A short one from me today. Looking forward to reading through later. @TopTweetTuesday
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Pool, reflection, vision, these are the prompt words to choose from for this week’s @TopTweetTuesday Here is my effort under 80 words with thanks as ever to @MatthewMCSmith and all my fellow poets.
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Paul Short@PaulWritesPoemsOct 13
A very quick poem for this week. Will catch up later, have a few things on today including rest of shift at work! So for @TopTweetTuesday & @MatthewMCSmith here we go
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Gary Legg@GaryLegg12Oct 13
Today for @TopTweetTuesday from the prompt of reflections is this piece. Thanks to @MatthewMCSmith and @blackboughpoems and a good reading day to all!😃👍
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Andy Perrin@aperrincyclingOct 13
Running a bit late today for @TopTweetTuesday ! My spin on reflecting back through Autumn. Thanks @MatthewMCSmith and @blackboughpoems ! Will catch up and read throughout the day! All the best everyone!
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Phil Hyde@gphydeauthorOct 13
Back on home turf after Catalonian wanderings, here's a response for the theme of #pool #reflections @TopTweetTuesday. Photo my own. Thanks for hosting to EIC @MatthewMCSmith #vsspoem #poet #poetrycommunity
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Tim Green@teemgrinOct 13
Good Morning All at TTT. Here’s my piece on the theme of ‘reflections / vision’ (possible trigger warning: connotation of drowning). Looking forward to reading all later! Huge thanks to @MatthewMCSmith @blackboughpoems @TopTweetTuesday
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Daniel Duggan@dandugwriterOct 13
This is a bit of make believe, reflective thought for @MatthewMCSmith on @TopTweetTuesday .. Hot Ghost #poetry
poem I prefer funerals where they lob a blanket over the full length hall mirror, so I don’t feel drawn into checking my hair's behavior. I’d get stuck there, patting down wayward strands, lamenting my appearance more than the loss of a friend. It’s not vanity.I’m just obsessed with looking good for the dead, since catching the hot ghost on the landing spying on me as I undressed for bed. Daniel Duggan

ALT poem I prefer funerals where they lob a blanket over the full length hall mirror, so I don’t feel drawn into checking my hair's behavior. I’d get stuck there, patting down wayward strands, lamenting my appearance more than the loss of a friend. It’s not vanity.I’m just obsessed with looking good for the dead, since catching the hot ghost on the landing spying on me as I undressed for bed. Daniel Duggan

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Mel@RuftyRooOct 13
Replying to @TopTweetTuesday
@TopTweetTuesday Thanks to @helen_laycock for her work and inspiring me to have a go at this. I'm not terrific at "concise"! Look. Hard. The glass shows us who we really are; Shards of who we used to be - Flung asunder In this un-funhouse, A cruel distortion of democracy.
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Ian Tattum@ITattumOct 13
For @TopTweetTuesday , a poem drawing on all the themes set by our generous host @MatthewMCSmith @blackboughpoems
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Rakhi@rakhi7654Oct 13
This Tuesday, an old poem for the optional prompt reflection. @MatthewMCSmith @blackboughpoems @TopTweetTuesday #poetry #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #reflection
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Vanessa Napolitano@MoetteOct 13
Snatched pre-school-run moments to join in today's @TopTweetTuesday
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R.M.Kain-Author@KainAuthorOct 6
A short poem for @TopTweetTuesday and the inexhaustible @MatthewMCSmith for #toptweettuesday having been awoken at 4.30 this morning by departing geese. So many on here will recognise the poets response of "must write about that" . Personally I didn't find it funny.
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Julian Cason@hool415Oct 13
Hullo @MatthewMCSmith Thanks for the shimmering vision of @TopTweetTuesday #poetry
Lourdes, France: For A Young Child The grotto, a near-empty eye-socket, suspended wooden sticks and crutches are redundant framing-lashes; most focus on the specular-highlight: the benignly hovering statue of Mary, but being just a frightened child, this worshipped rock fissure feels prised-open horror gushing crudely from the earth’s bowels; bobbing amid a flood of turbulent-prayers and foamy-forceful-whispers; below these jostling waves of surface ecstasy: a crowd’s deeper fear is sensed and like the cave’s remembered chill, it enters forever my all-absorbing, still developing, bones. Julian Cason

ALT Lourdes, France: For A Young Child The grotto, a near-empty eye-socket, suspended wooden sticks and crutches are redundant framing-lashes; most focus on the specular-highlight: the benignly hovering statue of Mary, but being just a frightened child, this worshipped rock fissure feels prised-open horror gushing crudely from the earth’s bowels; bobbing amid a flood of turbulent-prayers and foamy-forceful-whispers; below these jostling waves of surface ecstasy: a crowd’s deeper fear is sensed and like the cave’s remembered chill, it enters forever my all-absorbing, still developing, bones. Julian Cason

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Ryan@heavycloudhazeOct 13
This week’s #TopTweetTuesday, after Anne Carson, is inspired by the prompts pool, reflections and vision. Thank you, as always, to @MatthewMCSmith and @TopTweetTuesday.
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Paul Brookes@PaulDragonwolf1Oct 13
For @TopTweetTuesday #TopTweetTuesday and legendary host @MatthewMCSmith:
The Pool's Eye is cloudy. Sky rains eye drops to numb the eye completely widen (dilate) its pupil. Pool is awake, it does not feel pain. Sky makes a tiny, self-sealing cut in the pool's cornea. Breaks up the lens, inserts gently a needle-thin ultrasound probe of birdsong , gently breaks up the cloudy lens into small pieces. Fragments suctioned out through gust leaving the thin outer lens in place. More sky drops unfold as its new lens. The tiny cut heals by itself. Its vision blurry scratchy. A few days completes healing. before the other eye clouds.

ALT The Pool's Eye is cloudy. Sky rains eye drops to numb the eye completely widen (dilate) its pupil. Pool is awake, it does not feel pain. Sky makes a tiny, self-sealing cut in the pool's cornea. Breaks up the lens, inserts gently a needle-thin ultrasound probe of birdsong , gently breaks up the cloudy lens into small pieces. Fragments suctioned out through gust leaving the thin outer lens in place. More sky drops unfold as its new lens. The tiny cut heals by itself. Its vision blurry scratchy. A few days completes healing. before the other eye clouds.

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