This Above All

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This is a Twitter poem. The words in it are not mine. They belong to the people I follow on Twitter - my network. True, I rearranged them and cut them and shuffled them until I turned them into something that I could call my own. I changed the punctuation a bit, but I kept capital letters and uppercase.

All these words, phrases and sentences are taken from the Tweets that appeared on a single day - 3rd December, 2012. A day in our life.

Soulful Sunday

Dec 03,2012

Archived.

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Each Day of Our Life 

turns shadows into

A Jar of

Sunflowers

Butterfly on a leaf

Plum Pudding

 Penguins

Games and More.

Antidote to Lack of 

Questions

Delayed by

 the “what” and “how” -- 

Snowy dreams

Comic Strips 

The thin line between

 restraint and

misplaced modifier trouble.

Footsteps of

the loneliest number

very seriously

FREE!

Waiting For

... fireworks...

 Snowflakes

The Cosmic Log 

Some Rest.

The Tower of Babel

and

ALL Welcome.

10 Million Users

Rethinking the

slippery slope.

Save the World?

Vote for

 those you love. 

Ben, old and wise, always

the quiet one,

Angela

As She Sleeps,

Flowers,

Best Geography.

I enjoyed mispronouncing

10 easy steps to

 Vitamin D.

Speaking

of this before,

centuries ago.

Will Andy arrive?

My heart may

slip

Run

and More.

My day

Simplified

for Better Results.

and I tonight 

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One Minute of Life.

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Dec 03,2012

Soulful Sunday.

This above all.

Long Thursday

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Cigarette smoke always makes my eyes water. Some of them are still without electricity. I remember her cheese pies. He says it is rheumatism. It was devastating, such destruction. A teacher isn’t supposed to lose his temper like that. I have never felt so abandoned. Should they be included or sent into special schools. Hurricanes are a terrible thing. She died on Thursday and it was also my late sister’s birthday. Life is so funny, isn’t it? We never had a hurricane here. He is going to be operated on Monday. Thursday was a hard day for everyone, even I felt unwell. He won’t be here for the funeral. Yes, and Tanja works there. She said to me, how long is it until Thursday. No, I don’t know who Tanja is. I brought him his laptop, some movies and his shaving kit. I can’t wait until Thursday, it is too long, she said. I also brought him chocolates. Someone should open that window, my eyes hurt. Three large suitcases.  I am hungry, she said. After that, nothing. Imagine all that force, devastating. Have another piece of cake. I don’t want to talk about work today. And those poor people. You made her proud, you worked and  raised that kid all alone. Cigarette smoke won’t kill you. And you managed to get your degree. Hospital food is terrible. They asked me which coffin I liked. You were a good daughter. And they sent me to physical therapy. Devastating. What is there to like about a coffin. Therapy helped, I hope. She said why is this Thursday so long. After that, nothing.   

Migrations

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Red bricks,
The inside of an old handbag,
Swallows
In their absence.
And why on earth do lemmings do that?
Once days get longer
Sadness, unexpectedly.
Dreams,
Though nightmares tend to be
More interesting.
Who is taking care of his cat
After the suicide?
Winter is long,
But at least there is hope.
A yellow mailbox.
Will there be scars?

A Concise Serbian-English Dictionary

shared by alles-schlumpf

Krv, blood.
Colour: crvena, red, the colour of joy.
To be happy, radovati se, action verb, reflexive.
How do you do happy?
Laughter, smeh.
Song, pesma, pesma, poem.
One word, two words.
Do you need two words for pesma?
Uspavanka, lullaby.
To sleep, to dream, spavati, sanjati.
Vatra, fire, vetar, wind,
Rain, snow, kiša, sneg, oblak, cloud, sunce, sun.
Sin, son.
Love,
Ljubav, noun,
Voleti, transitive verb.

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The Dragon

 Credits for Creative Commons photos used in this video:1. DSC_0237, 2. Lonely tree on Planina lake, 3. Lonely in golden place!, 4. Maldives, a place you want to be, 5. DGJ_1985 - Paint my world (view Large), 6. Natural Bridge, 7. Vodable - cave - 26-08-2007 - 11h49, 8. THE SECRET OF NATURAL ARCH, 9. HDRcavernOrton, 10. NORWAY Flåm: Waterfall "Kjofossen" 18.953.17, 11. One Thousand and One Nights, 12. Phong Nha Cave, Vietnam, 13. Deep Inside the Iris Cave, 14. Ice cave in Glacier Gray, 15. Deja Vu, 16. Lavatube, Mojave National Preserve, 17. Ruby Falls, 18. The End of the Tunnel, 19. Reed flute cave, 20. Vodable - cave - 27-08-2007 - 11h05, 21. Devetashka cave, 22. Pirate's Gold, 23. Red Dragon Horizon, 24. The Dragon Cloud.

I Will Follow You

I created this poem with Prezi using one of their ready-made templates. I was curious to see whether a business template can be used for poetry. The result is slightly strange:

I Will Follow You on Prezi

Then I decided to create another version using the classical Prezi blank canvas:

I Will Follow You on Prezi

I am not sure which version I prefer. What do you think?

The Red Sun

Photo on Flickr by The Hidaway

His heart is red,
open for everyone to see.
He leaves red footprints
all over the sky
as he sinks into sleep.
One last flicker of fire
and he is gone,
invisible to us,
as he dreams his red dreams
at the bottom of the sea.
He wakes up, red,
the next morning.
He lights the sky
with his red love
and she stretches
her red-sleeved arms
to embrace him.

P.S. You can find out more about how this poem came to be if you read this post in my TEFL blog.