Poetry is txtspk. Or so the poet laureate says. "The poem is a form of texting … it's the original text," Carol Ann Duffy told the Guardian. "It's a perfecting of a feeling in language – it's a way of saying more with less, just as texting is. We've got to realise that the Facebook generation is the future – and, oddly enough, poetry is the perfect form for them. It's a kind of time capsule – it allows feelings and ideas to travel big distances in a very condensed form."

With this in mind we'd like to read your text poetry based on a news story from today. Give us a stanza or two and we'll put our favourite into the "what you're saying" section of Comment is free.