Tamworth Castle Aethelflaed Quest PoetryWalk (by sarah)

Poem composed as tweets during our visit to Tamworth Castle during our quest to find out about Queen Aethelflaed and all things Anglo-Saxon - the castle contained much history from many time periods - here are the embedded tweets.

Tamworth Castle - a little Russian doll of a castle with different ages and life styles hidden and recorded within, layers of history nestled in the eves along with an errant pigeon, I met a lady with a sword #poetrywalk #history pic.twitter.com/mvaHg3kK8a

— Sarah Snell-Pym (@Saffy) April 12, 2018

A Mercian Queen who built a burg, wood and mud upon a hill, which was turned to stone and built upon within and without, until bricks closed the chinks and ages had passed, it sits with its stories waiting to tell #poetrywalk #history @TamworthCastle pic.twitter.com/Z8sEs19Nlc

— Sarah Snell-Pym (@Saffy) April 12, 2018

Doors and windows slit and narrow, once designed for a rain of arrows, a view that stretches across the land, here to defend and make a stand, now the armour lays for the curious child so they can play and be a knight for a while #poetrywalk #history @TamworthCastle pic.twitter.com/ipqnERkVlB

— Sarah Snell-Pym (@Saffy) April 12, 2018

Hidden Gloucester Green Space Poetry Walk (by sarah)

For a few years now I have been doing poetry walks where I take my phone or camera and write poems in tweet form as I take the photos, it started off with the phone before the head injury but has mainly been camera since due to the difficulty of tweeting and walking at the same time! I often turn these in picture poem/stories on Turquoise Monster and so on but that can take ages and I fear I loose some of the poems by just forgetting them so I've decided to embed the tweets on here as an interim 🙂

A few weeks ago I was at a talk where someone said that city landscapes were of no interest because they were devoid of nature and someone else countered that Gloucester was full of green and hidden spaces. I have been searching out things like the hidden art and history so I decided that I would also actively hunt out the green spaces.

In the city of #Gloucester there hides a space of green that stretches & connects this world of brick & steel to that of ancient castles & older woodlands the River sings her song as birds swoop to pick or talk & insects with flashing glitters of wings dart to & throw #poetrywalk pic.twitter.com/hH99PWqevA

— Sarah Snell-Pym (@Saffy) April 19, 2018

Life reclaims and hides taking back the wood and stone, melting away the metal of histories that have gone before, on this isle the landscape has shaped its humans in the process of them shaping it, wilds of an older time call cradling the city gently with remembrance #poetrywalk pic.twitter.com/69QvY1Yy7f

— Sarah Snell-Pym (@Saffy) April 19, 2018

A fusion, mix and overplayed - interlocking intricacy shows this brave new ecology as it marks and masks our dependence on the earth from which our streets have been created, they are not apart but a part of the land, the river whispers of possibilities #poetrywalk pic.twitter.com/Jemc9aK6Rg

— Sarah Snell-Pym (@Saffy) April 19, 2018

Light & shadows form a contrast a texture of the knowing of a beautiful home & a future intwined of the wild & the formed cathedrals of wood frame the sky & jewel green grass the trees sigh that it is spring reminding all within the saps rise & blood hum #poetrywalk #Gloucester pic.twitter.com/fRhGwpdu0X

— Sarah Snell-Pym (@Saffy) April 19, 2018

Tweet Poems and National Poetry Writing Month (by sarah)

Pretty much since I first got onto twitter I have been using it as a medium to compose, create and share poetry - recently they have increased the character count which I am finding it hard to adjust too! However this did make me think that I should probably extract/copy those poems off of twitter - this is going to be a little tricky as initially there were no hashtags and then the hashtags were not consistent and twitter is still not the most searchable of platforms though a hell of a lot better than Facebook for this sort of thing!

As it is National Poetry Writing Month this month I shall endeavour to share these little treasures that I extract from my twitter feed!

Here is the first and is part of another project that started over on my Patreon account - called the Neons.

Galaxies came to be in the dots of paint swirly around the first points and flowing into new forms #tweetpoem #neons pic.twitter.com/ZwY2q8hxm5

— Sarah Snell-Pym (@Saffy) March 21, 2018

Tear drops of becoming emerge from the chaotic page creating new forms of existence #tweetpoem #neons pic.twitter.com/iy4nZZN5ue

— Sarah Snell-Pym (@Saffy) March 21, 2018

Group & cluster the random slips into order & so becomes the dragons eye set above the scales of chaos #tweetpoem pic.twitter.com/z5dvkQcOeX

— Sarah Snell-Pym (@Saffy) March 21, 2018