We love to see your short poems on Twitter. This month we asked for Twitter poems on a few of our recent titles (including the brand new collection of love poems by L.L. Barkat, Love Etc.) along with #MOMApoems as part of the Museum of Modern Art’s #art140 campaign.
We’re featuring ten of your poems today. Want to see your Twitter poems featured? Just tweet us your poem on one of the following topics, and include both @tspoetryand the hashtag so we can find your poem. Once a month, we’ll tweet ten of our favorites.
1. How to Read a Poem #howtoreadapoem
2. Poetry at Work #poetryatwork
3. Taking Your Creativity to the Nth Degree #nthdegree
4. Love is… #loveetc
#poetryatwork
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#FoundPoem: SCHOOL BUS We stop at railroad crossings. We do not turn right on red. #poetryatwork pic.twitter.com/GmLIRV4DrF
— The Well-Versed Mom (@WellVersedMom) February 26, 2014
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@glynn_poet, “Poetry @ Work” Re: resume chapter: face shaved, hair greased back shirt tucked into pleated slacks – too slick for this job
— Simply Darlene (@SimplyDarWrites) March 3, 2014
#howtoreadapoem
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#HowToReadAPoem hold them, they won’t bite you, and if you frighten them, poems may disappear like ghosts @TaniaRunyan @tspoetry — The Imagined Jay (@theimaginedjay) February 27, 2014
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@tspoetry Reading forsythia, preface to Spring, telling me there’s more to come. — Jody Lee Collins (@jodyo70) March 16, 2014
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RT @EDayPoems: With marmalade and butter eat the crust. It will set your mouth to wondering. #howtoreadapoem @TaniaRunyan — tspoetry (@tspoetry) March 13, 2014
#nthdegree
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That round of cheese hung high at daybreak and demanded an omelet before it cracked the western horizon. @tspoetry #nthdegree — SandraHeskaKing (@SandraHeskaKing) March 17, 2014
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#nthdegree Are you the wave form of the wind or the wind itself? @tspoetry pic.twitter.com/PhHQheKs6a — The Imagined Jay (@theimaginedjay) March 2, 2014
#MOMApoems
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Balled up I cannot find the way in to your dimension. #MOMApoems #Art140 @MuseumModernArt @tspoetry pic.twitter.com/OW3o9KIAic — Every Day Poems (@EDayPoems) March 15, 2014
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I roll golden toward your cypress— oh! starry kiss. #MOMApoems #Art140 @MuseumModernArt @tspoetry pic.twitter.com/XWmTo3mgUP — Every Day Poems (@EDayPoems) March 13, 2014
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@tspoetry Why the swirling curling colors of sky? Was Vincent looking for North and lost his star? For Moma prompt — Jody Lee Collins (@jodyo70) March 14, 2014
Photo by Wolfraven, Creative Commons license via Flickr.
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Maureen Doallas says
Just tweeted one.
Sandra Heska King says
Now I want some marmalade toast and tea. Poetry is fun!
L. L. Barkat says
Okay, I am taking that with me for the rest of 2014. Sandra Heska King said poetry is fun. Happy sigh 🙂
SimplyDarlene says
Oh fun!
I’m still learning about those hash tags.
Thanks.
Sandra Heska King says
😀
Sandra Heska King says
Well, that was supposed to go upstairs under Laura’s comment… but Darlene makes me smile big, too!
Richard Maxson says
Tweeting poetry is fun and these categories especially.