Tiny Poem for the-day-that's-innit

As per my previous post, today is Write-a-Tiny-Poem Day. Herewith one inspired by my recent trip to New York.

        Padlocklove

Along the Brooklyn Bridge

there are love locks

whose keys lie in the river silt.

Here all love is secure.

Write-a-Tiny-Poem Day - Sunday

Image by Paul Angel from The Mulberry Tree Gallery

Y'all know I love Tiny Poems. Here is something fun from Poets Cornered (who are on Facebook):

"Many of you will be unaware that Sunday the 8th May is International Write -A-Tiny-Poem Day.

This day was suggested in the footnote of one of Walt Whitman's many letters to Alfred Lord Tennyson - both considered the Perfect Tiny Poem the ultimate aim of English poetry; both of them succeeded in creating one Perfect Tiny Poem each*.

So - on the afternoon of the 8th May, why not breathe life into the form by writing one Tiny Poem. The only rule should be: keep it tiny-tiny-wee-and-small.

Happy tinyfying!

* Unfortunately for connoisseurs of the form they surrounded both sides of their Perfect Tiny Poems with c.150 lines of Less Than Tiny Poetry. The irony was lost on Whitman but encouraged by Tennyson. He managed to breed it into his later work."

TINY POEMS #3

Paris Couplet

The moon over Notre Dame is a plate

tossed by a Greek waiter from rue Hachette.

I AM A NANO-POET - TINY POEMS #2

Happy 2010 all!

I blogged about Tiny Poems here before, then today I read an interesting article on Nano-Poetics here at the PIW site, which says: "The miniaturisation process includes content: for example, the movement of poetry from a focus on gods or the privileged classes to that which deals with existential, practical matters and ordinary people. And it includes form: the switch from high registers to low, and from the serious to the comic."

The comic, see?! I was a nano-poet and I didn't know it but my feet showed it, they were Longfellows...(Eek. One of my Da's many, many jokes.) For me, nano-poetics also includes the found poem. Which is the category that the poem below falls into.

Anyway, what I am trying to say is that the PIW article reminded me that the Tiny Poems site said I could submit to them. So I did. And once again I have heard nothing. Since October. So once again I have decided to post one of my little nanos here. More to come!

TINY POEMS

When I lived in Scotland one of my friends bought me a book by Ivor Cutler. In it were hilarious little poems/stories. When I came home, I showed it to my sisters and we got great mileage out of the poems' subversive wit. I still have that miniature book.

I was reminded of this when I started to look for outlets for some of my own tiny poems which are little scraps that make me laugh. But no editor has accepted them (not that I've really tried much - I'm a lazy submitter.)

Anyway, I found this site: Tiny Poems and thought, Yipee!! So I mailed the editor...but got no response. At all.

OK, I thought, I'll just post them on my own blog. So here we are. Tiny poem number one. (You might have to click on the pic to read it properly - camera issues...)