I left my pictur on th ground wher u walk

Apparently, 2002 was the last year of the Text Poetry Competition. Luckily, the results are with us still.

And the £1,500 winner was Emma Passmore, for this:

I left my pictur on th ground wher u walk
so that somday if th sun was jst right
& th rain didnt wash me awa
u might c me out of th corner of yr i & pic me up

See, it's poetry that you write for a text messaging system. That's what SMS must mean.

Graham Francis won the Orange prize for creative use of SMS for his GLSTNBRY FSTVL

GLSTNBRY FSTVL

seasnd w msts n fruitlss mellwnss
n pungent smlls f grss ovr hay
we flp nto ponchos fr a mnts rest
n try nt t pln t rst f t day

Here's a link to more text poems and more about the contest itself.


Play on, ye text-messaging poets, play on!