Thank You | Poetry Milestones
Twittle One-Year Anniversary
A twittle-treat for Halloween
Dancing skeletons, candy to eat, twittle ’n’ tweet, trick or treat, jack-o’-lanterns, fear-o’-cheer, It’s Halloween this time of year! 🎃
Hoo-hoo-hooray, it’s one year today since twittles came to our screens, 100 letters, four lines in verses poems, ditties, and memes 🎉
Hoo-hoo-hooray, it was one year ago today that twittles made their first appearance on Medium and Twitter. Since then, the twittle train 🚂 has been choofing around Medium picking up happy twittlers along the way. 😊
A twittle is a four-line rhyming micropoem constructed with exactly 100 alphabet letters (spaces and non-alphabetical characters are not included in the count).
Twittles are fun to write. They can be about anything and everything. And because they’re so compact, they’re perfect to tweet on Twitter.
When I introduced twittles to Medium on October 30 last year, it never occurred to me that the date coincided with Halloween. Confession — I’m Australian, and Halloween has never really been a ‘thing’ for me.
But maybe it’s fortuitous that twittles will forever be associated with Halloween and its wacky trick-or-treat traditions.
Twittle ’n’ tweet, anyone?! 🎃 😆
As well as choofing the twittle train around Medium, I’ve nominated myself as the unofficial Medium twittle curator. Here’s the link to the list of twittles published in the past year — 88 twittle stories to date, including this one, from 23 twittlers, including me.
And now for a mega-sized THANK YOU to all my fellow twittlers on the twittle train 🚂 -
Patrick M. Ohana | Dr. Preeti Singh | Jenine Bsharah Baines | James G Brennan | Megan Nicole Morgan | Era Garg | William J Spirdione | Ann Marie Steele | Susannah MacKinnie | David Rudder | Jeff Langley | Dr. Fatima Imam | K. Barrett | R. Rangan PhD | Melanie J. | Dennett | Mia Verita | Calvin Lassiter | Thalia Dunn | Venu | Ching Ching | Lee Ameka 🙏 💕
Here’s a special thank you twittle just for you -
A twittle load of thank you muchly thank you twittlers one and all twittling on the twittle train I do hope you’ve had a ball! ✨
If you prefer something more-poetic-less-kitschy, here’s a twittled-tanaga (a twittle with seven syllables per line, or a tanaga constructed with exactly 100 letters, whichever makes more sense to you!) that I wrote recently –
My gratitude spills over Blossom-flushed on a spring day Fruits of fellowship writers Blessed harvests coming your way 💝
Free ticket for the Twittle Train 🚂
Here’s your free ticket to jump on board the twittle train. There’s plenty of room for everyone.
All you need to do is —
- write a twittle of your own
- use the ‘twittle’ tag
- tag me into your post
Thank you to Trista Signe Ainsworth and the editorial team at Thank You Notes for helping me celebrate this twittle milestone with you all. Twittle on! 🙏 💕
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