Twittle, Twittle Little Star…

Now I Know Just What You Are

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A ‘Twittle’ poem! Until recently I had never heard of one and had no clue what it was. Well, I Googled it (as you do) and found out it was originally a poem called a ‘Dribble’ but became popular on Twitter so was renamed a ‘Twittle.’ It all makes sense now.

Dribble Poem Formula

‘a brief poem consisting of exactly 100 letters (not 100 characters — spaces and punctuation are not counted). Dribbles most often take the form of a quatrain that turns on a single rhyme…’
https://poetscollective.org/poetryforms/dribble/

and a Twittle:

A Twittle is a Twitter dribble — (a dribble poem posted on Twitter)
a four-line poem; a quatrain
of precisely one hundred letters

• Counting the letters is the fun part.

Anyway, it seems everywhere I look on Medium, well not everywhere but lots of places, people are issuing challenges to write a ‘Twittle’ poem.

I was specifically tagged by Pamela Oglesby who said she was encouraged to write on by Denise Kendig, but that Sheila McCall, Carolyn Hastings, and Wire Editor Newman also has encouraged everyone to write a ‘Twittle’ poem. With all this pressure…sorry, I mean encouragement, how could I refuse to be involved.