Thomas Newlove

Thomas Newlove Feb 2016

Tweet Verse #23 - Deafening Silences, A Confession of Affection

Regularly I'm a master of oration,
But when it comes to
Deep feelings of affection
can't I just bury my head
and hand her a poem instead?

Tweet Verse is a poem comprising of exactly 140 characters (including spaces and punctuation)

Thomas Newlove Feb 2016

Tweet Verse #22 - I think you're the bees knees and breathtaking doesn't come close

Maybe it's because I've been lonely for a while or maybe it's a weird side-effect of depression, or maybe I'm delirious from this course but

Tweet Verse is a poem comprised of exactly 140 characters

Thomas Newlove Feb 2016

Tweet Verse #21 - Love in an Empty Room

Poets are the creatures who can't love themselves
So they try and love everyone else instead.
The tragedy is that it always ends badly...

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Thomas Newlove Jan 2016

I'd give my ******* soul for just a glass of beer

The dry-stale phlegm of cider on those morning-afternoons,
The pounding of your head aside the clangs of coffee spoons,
The dreary, heavy weariness that's clogging up your eyes,
The alcoholic drinks them all until the day he dies.

Thomas Newlove Jan 2016

Tweet Verse #20 - Modern Torture Techniques

They used to burn, stretch, or cut you, but now, they just get a girl with a beautiful smile and soul to not use Facebook very often. Agony.

Tweet Verse is a poem comprised of exactly 140 characters (including spacing and punctuation)