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Top Ten Poetic Tweets

By Will Willingham 5 Comments

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. Sometimes, it so happens we read a tweet and say to ourselves, “That’s poetry.” Maybe it’s not a poem, but it’s a poetic thing. A way of using words well.

We want to take notice.

Here are ten of the top poetic tweets we’ve seen in the last few weeks:

1.

I’m not saying I’m crazy, I’m just saying that if I can’t find my favorite mug I will burn this house down. #nbd

— Amanda Nelson (@deadwhiteguys) July 12, 2013

2.

I love watermelons. Hate the state you get into eating a slice. Want someone to invent watermelon but like an orange. Not too much to ask. — Barbara (@chicaderock) July 12, 2013

3.

Have you ever been to an office meeting where the best part of the meeting is the donuts? — HarperCollins 360 (@Harper360) July 12, 2013

4.

relent relent do I have to tie up those feelings in a bed not big enough for your beauty ..#museinlove — S.E.Thompson (@dreamersteve_99) July 15, 2013

5.

MOONNDDAAAYYYY *transforms Monday into a trampoline, bounces on its face* — Amanda Nelson (@deadwhiteguys) July 15, 2013

6.

robin’s egg blue- color of the morning sky- your eyes — Kathleen (@everettpoetry) July 15, 2013

7.

Trolls: 1. If want to argue with me, please realize I’m a Latin Argument Professor (good luck) 2. Hummer Limos expose you as a fool. — Alice Anderson (@AlicePoet) July 15, 2013

8.

Who can explain the difference to me between laundry and the heads of Hydra? 140 characters or less preferred. — Thea Lawson (@thealawson) July 14, 2013

9.

THIS SONG IS THEOLOGICALLY INACCURATE #thingsweyellwhenwatchingveggietales

— Amanda Nelson (@deadwhiteguys) July 12, 2013

And for number 10, we offer three-in-one: a preview of all the fun we saw yesterday for Take Your Poet to Work Day (stop by tomorrow when we feature some of the best poet adventures):

T.S Eliot keeps asking me where my receipts are. Keeps trying to balance my checkbook. Dude… #takeyourpoettoworkdayproblems @tspoetry

— Heather Eure (@heathereure) July 17, 2013

 

During Lunch… T.S. Eliot: “Do I dare eat a peach?” Me: “YES. For the fifth time…It’s organic.” #takeyourpoettoworkdayproblems @tspoetry

— Heather Eure (@heathereure) July 17, 2013

 

@anniecardi Office Eliot is so cute! So it’s actually Bring Your Poet and his Cat to Work Day??

— Jill Gallagher (@looksnbooks) July 17, 2013

Photo by Chiara Cremaschi. Creative Commons via Flickr.

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Will Willingham
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Director of Many Things; Senior Editor, Designer and Illustrator at Tweetspeak Poetry
I used to be a claims adjuster, helping people and insurance companies make sense of loss. Now, I train other folks with ladders and tape measures to go and do likewise. Sometimes, when I’m not scaling small buildings or crunching numbers with my bare hands, I read Keats upside down. My first novel is Adjustments.
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About Will Willingham

I used to be a claims adjuster, helping people and insurance companies make sense of loss. Now, I train other folks with ladders and tape measures to go and do likewise. Sometimes, when I’m not scaling small buildings or crunching numbers with my bare hands, I read Keats upside down. My first novel is Adjustments.

Comments

  1. Maureen Doallas says

    July 18, 2013 at 10:21 am

    Crazy State

    I will burn this big house
    down for watermelons,

    for the fifth time dare
    to eat donuts out of spoons,

    bring a blue egg to bounce
    on the heads of Hydra

    at the office. Argue the state
    of Monday if you want. Expose

    me for saying I’m not crazy
    to like a slice of organic orange

    in bed, invent a song if you ask
    me to explain those feelings.

    The bet part of the morning
    is to relent and color your eyes.

    Reply
    • Maureen Doallas says

      July 18, 2013 at 10:22 am

      I mistyped that second to last line. It should read:

      The best part of the morning

      Reply
      • L. L. Barkat says

        July 18, 2013 at 11:07 am

        i don’t know. It might be a bet. Sometimes our typos surprise us with something we would have otherwise missed 😉

        Reply
  2. Donna says

    August 17, 2013 at 8:09 am

    Dude….. Haha!! 😀 That cracks me up!

    Reply
  3. R.K.Singh says

    August 18, 2013 at 9:32 am

    unashamed my son
    sits tight over his trousers–
    smiling mother

    –R.K.Singh

    Reply

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