Can The Kinetic Alphabet write poi?
Partly. Poi can perform the Kinetic Alphabet patterns whose rotation stays fairly steady. Holds, hard reversals, and abrupt speed changes are out of reach, because a poi head hangs from a tether and keeps moving with swing and gravity. The alphabet was built around held props, which can pause at any orientation, move to another grid position, or reverse direction.
The Kinetic Alphabet measures each orientation radially, from the prop toward the performer's center. Vulcan Tech Gospel (VTG) uses the downbeat at the bottom of the circle as its reference. That ground reference follows a prop that swings under gravity.
The Kinetic Alphabet builds on VTG, created by Noel Yee and spinners at the Vulcan Lofts in Oakland. VTG's four timing and direction categories are encoded in TKA's Type 1 letters. Poi spinners who know split-same and tog-opposite can already read that part of the alphabet. The sources and full lineage are on the history page.
A Poi Lab module is planned for Flow Arts Composer to identify sequences a momentum-based prop can perform. It has not been built yet. The guide explains the notation, and the Kinetic Atlas defines its terms.