Poetry Friday: Twitter Search Poem

I've searched every poem site I know for poems about voice (lost mine on the second day of school) or hot tea (I'm drinking some now, with lemon and honey and a little extra sumpin' to help me sleep).

Nothing spoke to me, so I invented a new poetry form: the Twitter Search Poem. (Googled it; can't find any. I claim the invention.)

Here's how I wrote my Twitter Search Poem: I searched "laryngitis" on Twitter. I wrote/found this poem using bits and pieces of actual recent Tweets:

How's Ur Voice Dear?

found on Twitter by Mary Lee Hahn

Feels like I've been hit by a bus,

Sounds like a chipmunk with laryngitis.

If I have laryngitis I will GET. CRAZY.

I just want to be able to speak again.

Even with laryngitis I WILL WIN.

I beamed laryngitis rays at him; I laryngitis you.

Right now I wish dogs could get laryngitis...

Can cats get laryngitis?

Skillful listening is the best remedy for

loneliness, loquaciousness, and laryngitis.


Kate has the Poetry Friday roundup this week at Book Aunt.