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 Feb 2016
Thomas Newlove
Fallin' in love is easy. The hard part is copin' with it when it ain't reciprocated. 'Cuz you're lookin' for a light that simply ain't there
Tweet verse is a poem comprised of exactly 140 characters.
 Feb 2016
Thomas Newlove
Did it hurt when you fell from heaven?
Does it hurt hiding your wings?
Girl, you must be an angel
Because you're a figment of my imagination
Tweet verse is a poem comprised of exactly 140 characters (including spaces and punctuation but excluding the title)
 Jan 2016
Thomas Newlove
"New Year, new you" she said as she took off her old one and put on a brave new face. This one hid the bruises but not the tears in her eyes
Tweet Verse is a poem consisting of exactly 140 characters (excluding the title) as per the Twitter character limit. The name is my own (as far as I'm aware.)
 Jan 2016
Thomas Newlove
Saoirse wanted motivation
Before the new year celebration.
I bid to write her a poem I'd parsed
But on her acceptance I couldn't be arsed
I asked my friends to suggest themes to write tweet verse with/about and my friend Saoirse suggested "lack of motivation" was the theme of her life so I obliged.
 Jan 2016
Thomas Newlove
Life can sometimes get bitter-
It feels like there's no going back,
But if the knife ain't gonna slit her
She'll still take her coffee black
Tweet Verse is a poem consisting of precisely 140 characters (akin to Twitter's character limit.)
 Jan 2016
Thomas Newlove
The wind and rain are battering your window, and all you can think about is your 13 year old self, and how the watermark was up to your neck
Trying to get to sleep through recent Irish "storms" has brought back some uncomfortable memories of the devastation of Hurricane Ivan in my youth in the Caribbean.
 Dec 2015
Thomas Newlove
Eve's crime was not biting the apple, but accepting the idea that she was to blame for man's fall.

That, in my experience, was inevitable.
Tweet Verse (I'm trying to make the name stick, and the form become a thing) is a poem utilising all characters that Twitter allocates for a tweet.
 Dec 2015
Thomas Newlove
I'm feelin' inspired today o' alt'days - when George Bailey'st' richest man int'own, but I can't think of out worth writin' so I wrote this.
Tweet Verse is a poem which uses up all the characters allocated to a tweet on Twitter. This particular one is to be read in a Yorkshire twang (Northern England)
 Dec 2015
Thomas Newlove
One often 'as problems sleepin'
In ways which affect ones 'ealth
But 'ow can one deal wit 'out but weepin'
When one 'as a fear of their self
Tweet verse uses the exact amount of characters allowed for a tweet on Twitter, no more, no less.
 Oct 2015
Thomas Newlove
He who says escapism cannot solve your problems
has never been a cinephile with depression
who can sit and watch The West Wing in his pants.
Tweet verse or a Twitter poem made up of exactly 140 characters
 Oct 2015
Thomas Newlove
If I had to drown one thousand deaths
And sink beneath a quarry
I'd still want to spend all those one thousand breaths
Telling you I'm sorry
Another example of Tweet Verse... an 140 character poem.
 Aug 2015
Thomas Newlove
To create poetry or flash fiction in one hundred and forty characters. What a truly modern art form. Composing, like a symphony, my laziness
Tweet Verse - poems that can be written on Twitter and its character restrictions.
 Aug 2015
Thomas Newlove
She adored cinema and took it all in. Now she is blind and touches the screen, constructing the images in her head, weeping at their beauty.
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