Mobile phone users can access poetry in motion, thanks to a writer who has tapped into the power of the internet.

Frederik Lloyd has penned 70 micro poems which will be sent as text messages to mobile phones.

Through a new service launched today the poems, which have to be less than 160 characters long, including spaces between words, will be sent to phones every morning to brighten up their owners' day.

Frederik, from Brighton, has had to make sure his poems are less than four lines long for them to fit on the screen.

He said: "It can be quite tricky writing so little.

"But I am lucky because most of my work revolves around what is not said rather than what is.

"My aim is to get people reading poetry who wouldn't buy poetry books.

"Text messaging is a perfect way of doing it.

"Hopefully it will make poems accessible to people and make them part of their everyday lives instead of being considered highbrow."

Frederik has chosen 70 suitable poems from a collection of 300.

They are all based on the theme of winter.

The collection will provide a three-month supply for the service which sends text messages to each subscriber five days a week.

Poems can also be sent via email.

Those wanting to receive the poems can register for the service on the web site poem-me.com.

There is already a waiting list of about 200 people.

The service is the brainchild of Frederik and two friends who founded Nectar Digital, based in Brighton Media Centre in Middle Street.

Frederik, who has already published four anthologies of poetry, children's books and a collection for the national church in Norway, said: "I used to send poems to my wife and friends' mobile phones which they really liked receiving. The idea just grew from that."

Dahlan Lasalle, Frederik's friend and producer of the web site, said his mission was to provide a daily service which created a smile.

He said: "We're supplying a daily potion to warm people's cockles and lighten the load of everyday life."