Chloe Gorman

Well @TopTweetTuesday I’m about to sign off from hosting duty. The quality and calibre of the work today has been startling in the most wonderful way! Thank you to all who contributed, thank you @MatthewMCSmith for inviting me to host. I’m off to bed with a head full of poems!

TopTweetTuesday @TopTweetTuesday

Your challenge next week - hyper condensement. Take one of your own imagistic short poems and condense it to no more than 20 words. Make it startling, retain the spirit of the original. Show the before and after (two photos). Tag us in, as usual. https://t.co/ARFraHdW1M

I love this Anthony – the shortened version is particularly vivid, and I think really benefits from keeping that lunar image at the centre, glowing in the dark. Stellar work 🌙

Anthony J.P @antJP01

My offering for @TopTweetTuesday and @chloevwrites The original version of ‘Man in the Moon’ and a micro version with a different air! 🌙 🌒 🌕 @MatthewMCSmith @blackboughpoems https://t.co/MBCVxORkCV

This feels so expertly done Paul. A razor-sharp reduction which amplifies the beauty, grief, longing and loss of the original. Where the original is so sensory, stripping it back I think it gives it even more power in its brevity. I can almost feel the hands disconnecting.

Paul Brookes @PaulDragonwolf1

An incisive incision concision for @TopTweetTuesday and today's host, have a great day, Chloe @chloevwrites - https://t.co/ifxRsKjKEK

This condensed poem is so lovely. How much meaning there is in such an everyday object, how the mug holds the very heart of the family – I think condensing this really boils it down to the very sweetest part. Lovely!

diggingpoetryandpop @noelcowley

A trickier-than-it-looks brief for @TopTweetTuesday from this week's host, @chloevwrites - to condense a poem written for a previous #TTT into 20 or fewer words and in doing so hopefully distill the spirit of the original. Before and after ⤵️ https://t.co/JUZTyXcqWV

Fabulous reduction here Anish. I think the abridged version has such power, like a lightning flash, it illuminates this moment you’ve captured and its beautiful, fleeting nature – then like the rumbling storm, it moves on. Lush. ⛈️

Dr Anish Gupta: #vss365 Host - 1st May to 15th May @optionurol

Good morning! Here's my original and my condensed version of "The Knocking Storm Within" Enjoy your day @chloevwrites and thank you @TopTweetTuesday @MatthewMCSmith #poetrycommunity https://t.co/FtkO300h1l

Ooh Jai, the new life breathed into this is stunning. I love your use of spacing and line breaks in both pieces. The shorter is much more abstract, but I think the heart of it remains. I really love ‘blue happened’ as the opening line too! 💙

Jai Michelle Louissen @bornonadarkmoon

Hello all at @TopTweetTuesday thank you to @chloevwrites for this fantastic challenge. I went for writing something totally new, using the essence of the poem and the words but finding something fresh inside it https://t.co/zIiHw3KRqk

I love your condensed version Robert, it’s so punchy and vivid. It feels very considered and curated, but still full of your unique voice. Wonderful work 💜

RobertFredeKenter @frede_kenter

Ty for this delightful challenge of carving, chopping, distilling & whittling a longer imagist work down to 40 proof, 20 word shot. My poem POP presented s/by/side with original for host @chloevwrites @TopTweetTuesday @MatthewMCSmith & the @blackboughpoems crew. https://t.co/9TlXnQxO4N

I love the humour and wit in this Margaret! The condensed version certainly has a sting in its tail, there’s so much sass in such a small package! 🐝

Margaret Royall @RoyallMargaret

For @TopTweetTuesday, @MatthewMCSmith and host with the most @chloevwrites I’m posting my original poem ( left) and the slimmed down version ( right) which I trust meets approval! Enjoy your day, everyone! https://t.co/mpoobS5K0g

The stripped back version of this has such heat and rhythm, that heartbeat is so present in every line. There’s such a sense of connection. It’s very different from the fuller version, but deftly done. ♥️

Dean Rowlands @costan07

Hello all hope you are good. Here is my extra small effort describing such a big room in my life for @TopTweetTuesday hope you enjoy @chloevwrites and thanks to @MatthewMCSmith as ever. https://t.co/T3aVbtxQoK

The sounds in this are wonderful Merril. So immersive! I feel like I can hear those galloping ghost horses breathing all around me. Gorgeous reduction with all the impact of the original.

Merril D. Smith 🌻 @merril_mds

Good morning! Here's my original and my condensed version of This Fog. Enjoy your day @chloevwrites and thank you as always @TopTweetTuesday @MatthewMCSmith ! #poetrycommunity https://t.co/o5ubb7xZHC

RT @merril_mds: Good morning! Here's my original and my condensed version of This Fog. Enjoy your day @chloevwrites and thank you as always…

I so enjoyed these Rhona. The words in your condensed version sparkle like starlight in the vast expanse of space, shining with the light of all that came before them. Lovely poems 🌟💫

Rhona Greene @Rhona_Greene

✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨ Whizzing in @TopTweetTuesday to deliver a snipped Sparkling Reminder (on left) to lovely host @chloevwrites - still fiddling with it but on the run today, so here it is for now. Thanks & hope you have a super day. Catch up later.🌟 https://t.co/2CulBlIghg

Powerful words Daniel. These feel like two tellings of the same story, but so starkly different in the approach. There’s such unique imagery and metaphor in the longer that I wish the shorter had retained some of in the whittling down to a knifepoint, but still packs a punch.

Daniel Duggan @dandugwriter

For our @TopTweetTuesday challenge this week with host @chloevwrites here are my two pieces called thing one and thing two. #poetry #poem https://t.co/QpOmena67Q