National Poetry Month--Day 23--Poetweet--Sharks

Today it's a 280 character poetweet poem. If you're wondering about this form, go here. Otherwise, here's my offering:

Your predatory grin

Your dandy-looking fin

The form so sleek and thin

All don’t help when teeth sink in.

You think you’re something slick

When you chomp your victim—Ick!

But the streamlined way you flick

Through the water splickety-lick

Only strikes my heart with fear

When you draw near.

© 2018 by H. Linn Murphy

Poetweet Poem--Lousy Memory--National Poetry Month

It's Poetweet day. If you're not sure what that is, go here. And now I'm going to have to cram everything into 140 tweet spaces, so I'm getting to it.

My memory looks like old Swiss cheese. 

Could I have a transplant please? 

My mind, unruly as a cat 

Goes every which way. What about that?

© 2017 BY H. LINN MURPHY

(Hah! Exactly 140 spaces. And it only took me about 10 minutes and the revelation that I'd forgotten a very important appointment...sigh.)

In Praise of Honey Badgers--Poetweet

He's all brains&fangs/Has hunger pangs/4 lions&hippos&snakes&thangs/Killer bees R the guys w/whom he hangs/I'm glad he can't use boomerangs!

© 2016 by H. Linn Murphy

So this is a Poetweet and I wanted to make sure it worked right on Twitter. Hope it did. If you'd like to know more about Poetweets, go here. If you'd like to know more about honey badgers, there are some great vids on Youtube about them. They're fascinating little creatures and have my deepest respect. You don't mess with these guys and walk away un-mangled.

Day the Sixth--Deep

Today I'm doing a Poetweet. It has to be complete in 140 characters (including spaces) and need not rhyme. Here's my stab at it:

Deep

The iceberg slid sinuously by,

silvery sculpted ribbons raising 

jagged crags to slice the sky.

Breathless, I watched it slide past. 

Or did it?

© 2015 by H. Linn Murphy

You can find out what a Poetweet is, here. There's even a contest you can enter.