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Tweeted Verse Of The Day: April 15, 2011 Today's poetic tweet comes from Philadelphia writer and English teacher Christine Chiosi. Listeners are invited to send in original poems of 140 characters or less, via Twitter, using the hashtag, T-M-M-poetry.
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Tweeted Verse Of The Day: April 15, 2011

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Tweeted Verse Of The Day: April 15, 2011

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By @cchiosi:

She gave up poetry 4 lent/She waited -a sequestered egg, oval stone/ To see how death reverses, reemerges from a tomb.