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22 July 2016

Title: I explore & examine my totems so as to create #poetry – which I'll post on twitter, that is I'll tweet – each one called a #poetweet

First I #poetweet Owl, 
my Left-hand Guardian
connecting me to the dark,
penetrating mystery
with clear incisive sight
an advantage for #poetry

My Right-hand Guardian is Serpent
for Cunning (Owl's Wisdom)
giving day/action streetsmarts and 
the Healing I want in my #poetweet #poetry

Last, Great Mother Spider 
childhood terror / lifelong totem.
Protector. And Weaver 
good for a maker of #poetry,
blessing my every #poetweet

Note: Each aforegoing #poetweet was written in response to prompts from 'imaginary garden with real toads'dVerse, playgrounds for #poetry

[And a further note just for readers of this blog – the hashtags have to be within the 140 characters, so for this exercise I needed to include them in each tweet. Because, yes, I have tweeted all of the above, including Title and Note. But not this bit.]


23 comments:

  1. Oh I so love how you combined the totem with the hashtag... One tweet per totem, love the spider one,

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  2. This is absolutely delicious writing, Rosemary :D and yes I too love the spider at the end.

    Lots of love,
    Sanaa

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  3. love the spider one too, weaving and making it home...

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  4. That's so cool. I like poems written in the form of tweets. :-)
    -HA

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  5. I admire each poetweet Rosemary. This is so cool, smiles :-)

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  6. Luv your Owl totem Rosemary bestbof the lot

    Much love...

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  7. This brought me a smile, so thank you for that, Rosemary.

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  8. I love it, Rosemary!! I think this is a wonderful way to express each of these totems...they carry a compact magic...I can't pick a favorite although I love the weaving quality of the spider...each of these spirits are ones that I've been drawn to at one time or another in my life...interesting! Thank you, for writing!

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  9. Grand Mother Spider is my favorite.

    You make me want to become a better twitter (twitterer?). I'm so bad at it. Really.

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    1. 'Tweeter', I think. I am not very good at interacting with others there. Who has the time?

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  10. The inclusion of hash tags makes these even have the appearance of tweets. Nicely done.

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  11. Wow! You know how to tweet. I have no clue, plus I don't have a cellphone.......which I assume one needs to tweet? I love your totems, especially Owl of course, but also Great Mother Spider who helps you weave your words with such finesse. Loved this, Rosemary. I am late getting around, had a hectic day yesterday. ( My friend wryly asks, "How can you tell?" LOL.)

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  12. Efficient use of Tweet characters. :-)
    The pieces are earthy and mysterious.

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  13. Love your totems. Are you aware of the artist Louise Bourgeois? She made enormous sculptural spiders and called them Great Mother.

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  14. Wonderful Rosemary! I like spiders very much so many are afraid or think they're gross but they are beautiful creatures. I will have to look you up on Twitter. I'm on it too.

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    1. I agree they are beautiful, and I'm pleasantly surprised by how many here have commented favourably on my Spider verse. I'm @SnakyPoet on twitter, but I really only use it to tweet links to my poems or to petitions for good causes. I much prefer good old frivolous facebook!

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  15. Some people can turn squeamish on seeing a little wriggly but they can be just as attractive to some others.

    Hank

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  16. Gayle Walters Rose23 July 2016 at 13:39

    I especially love Owls and how cool that your childhood terror became your protector Mother Spider. These are great, Rosemary!

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  17. Super sexy. :)

    "my Left-hand Guardian
    connecting me to the dark,
    penetrating mystery"

    "My Right-hand Guardian is Serpent
    for Cunning"

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  18. Love all the earth power in this - the guardians and totems. Excellent.

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