Did you know that emoji poetry is a type of poetry? Well, some younger ones might say, ⌛ 👍🏻 (translates to duh yes)! With World Emoji Day coming up on the 17th of July, I decided to look a little more into emoji poetry and the how and what of it. Read on to check out the fun you can have with it… or –> Read 🔛 2️⃣ ✅ out the 🫠 🫵 🥫 🫴 with 🇮🇹..

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Poetic Sundays: Emoji Poetry

Emojis are here to stay so why not try to have fun with them. Here is one way to do so – write emoji poetry. There is no specific way to go about it so today’s post is just tips and ways you can come up with your own emoji poems.

Tips and More to Write Emoji Poetry

• If you want to keep it really simple, then use this site to create emoji poems (based on this tweet by Neale Pickett)
• Write a poem as you would normally; try to use as many words as you can that you know/think likely have an emoji associated with the word. Then use an online translator to translate to create emoji poetry! That is what I did today for my first attempt..
• Or try to use emojis that can convey more, and then have someone else interpret it (or an online translator) to get different poems.. Like with the poems you see here.

My Attempts at Emoji Poetry

The Emoji Version of

The Little Things that Matter

😆 🟰 the best 💊, they say
🙋 🤝 with them, whoever 🇧🇪 they
2️⃣ ➕ 2️⃣ 👉, 🙋 🫴 🅰️ 🤏 something –
🤗 🤗 🤗 ➕ 😊😊😊 🥫 make 🥰 😗,
➕ 🎟️ 🅰️ single 🧒 word
🥫 brighten a 🥲 👉 feels un🧏.
So 😇’😀 share 😆, 🥰, ➕ 🤲,
➕ spread 😇😇 🌍.

And translated:

Laughter is the best medicine, they say
I agree with them, whoever be they
To add to that, I have a little something –
Hugs and smiles can make hearts sing,
And even a single kind word
Can brighten a soul that feels unheard.
So let’s share laughter, love, and care,
And spread kindness everywhere.
~ Vidya Tiru @ ladyinreadwrites

References, h/t, and More Reading

• Ken Nesbit’s Emoji Poem
• These brilliant poems/translations

Recently

On My Blog and Home-front

It has been a sweltering few days and the weather forecast shows more hot summer days too. We finally got our fence fixed – part of it had fallen down in the 60+ mile winds earlier this year. And we have been having dinner al fresco the last couple of days – it is so much nicer outdoors that time of the evening rather than indoors (hot!).

I am doing a psychology class online at the local community college, just because, and loving every minute of it. It is async, so it mostly watching the recorded videos and joining in on discussion posts. I am easily the oldest student in the class, based on what I can see in the responses (for most others are in high school or college and working towards a degree). So these discussion posts do offer whole new perspectives on things for me!!

Posts since the last Scribblings:

• Make aMazing Music So You Can Say You Did!
• Look Up to the Stars and the Last Rainbow Bird
• From A Kitchen Pantry to a Fool’s Paradise: Keeping Words in Mind More
• A Wondrous Journey Just to See the Whole Wide Simple World
• How to Say: I’m Still Writing and Getting Better
• How Does Our Body Work? And Wondrous Wonders Made?
• Sunday Scribblings #152: Contrapuntal Call of the Horizon

Upcoming

On My Blog and Home-front

more posts, and hopefully caught up all the way for the month.. And at home, continuing the class and well, can’t think at this time, but do have a couple of things coming up.

This Week’s Celebrations

The Literary and Close-to-it Celebrations

• Literary Birthdays this week: Erle Stanley Gardner on July 17th; Elizabeth Gilbert and William Makepeace Thackeray on the 18th; Alice Dunbar Nelson on 19th July; Alistair MacLeod and Cormac McCarthy on 20th; Ernest Hemingway, Sarah Waters, Tess Gallagher, and Michael Connelly on the 21st; S. E. Hinton and Akhil Sharma on the 22nd of July; Raymond Chandler and Mohsin Hamid on the 23rd
• The 17th is World Emoji Day, and given my Poetic Sundays this week plus how we use emojis nowadays, it is kind of literary, right?
• It is National Words with Friends Day and Take Your Poet to Work Day on the 19th of July.
• The 22nd is Spoonerism Day followed by
• another fun holiday on the 23rd with International Yada Yada Yada Day
• And reading Hemingway’s poems and stories for it is Hemingway Days 19th through the 23rd of July.

Foodie Celebrations

Food, delicious, necessary, food!! Here are the many ways we can celebrate it this week:

• It is National Peach Ice Cream Day on the 17th and I can use a little bit of both with this current heat wave (peaches and ice cream, I mean)
• The 18th is National Sour Candy Day
• Celebrating a familiar sweet treat on the 20th with National Lollipop Day. It is also National Fortune Cookie Day
• Penuche Fudge Day, Mango Day, and also Casual Pi Day (should be this be here, or in the other??) are observed on July 22
• National Vanilla Ice Cream Day is celebrated on July 23 and it is also Peanut Butter and Chocolate Day as well as Sprinkles Day, so you know what I plan to have on the 23rd for dessert now!!

Other Celebrations

• The 17th is Global Hug Your Kids Day as well as World Day for International Justice
• Followed by World Listening Day on the 18th of July
• It is a lunar holiday of sorts with July 20th being National Moon Day, and also Space Exploration Day
• The 20th is also World Jump Day
• World Brain Day is on the 22nd.
• The 23rd is National Parents’ Day ..

Wrapping up my Sunday Scribblings

So dear reader, this was it for my Sunday Scribblings. I would love to hear your comments on my post(s), poems, poetic Sunday section, and anything else. And which of these days do you plan to celebrate (or any other)? 

Linking this to the Sunday Post over at the Caffeinated Reviewer and the Sunday Salon.

Linking up to the Ultimate Blog Challenge