We spend a lot of time on Twitter. (We’re Tweetspeak Poetry, right?) In fact, we figure we read thousands of tweets every month. One of the things poetry and Twitter have in common (when done well) is an economy of words. When we see good Twitter poems, we stop and take notice.

Here are ten of the best Twitter poems we’ve seen in the last few weeks:

i put a note on the vase and it withered along with the flowers #micropoetry

— Adia (@Adiawong) April 2, 2014

Indiana spring— the rawness of your hand on my neck #poetry #micropoetry #haiku 992 — Sondra (@SondraJByrnes) April 2, 2014

she lets it slide for now out of sight down the slippery slope in her mind #5lines #micropoetry

— Davey (@haikutauren) March 30, 2014

. I come nameless remembering nothing I must relearn mountains the sea how the heart must be renamed for something true. #micropoetry

— Positively Wyrde (@Wyrde) April 1, 2014

all that’s left– the snowman’s scarf and the new moon #haiku

— Marianne Paul (@mariannpaul) April 1, 2014

wild roses and the wind tangled in #haiku — Sandi Pray (@bigmax722) March 24, 2014

quick with the math they reduced each other to their lowest common denominator #5lines #micropoetry — Slym Being (@AsSlimAsImBeing) March 28, 2014

robins shuffle thru the winters detritus daffodils nod in approval

— Kathleen (@everettpoetry) March 24, 2014

the will of a rock broke when water found the weakness inside

— Eusebeia Philos (@Eusebeia_Philos) March 22, 2014

10.

#tanka #5lines #migraine I said I would never write of persimmons but this migraine and the thumping of the rainbow .

— Eamonn T O’Neill (@nightslostsoul) March 25, 2014

Photo by Uzi Yachin, Creative Commons via Flickr.

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