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:

1.

@TSPoetry The sky does not send the rain where it will not follow pic.twitter.com/2WHdsmqu8A

— The Imagined Jay (@theimaginedjay) April 4, 2014

2.

@tspoetry who wages war for the trees where is the solace for the waters pic.twitter.com/y2OBPAGXGn — The Imagined Jay (@theimaginedjay) April 4, 2014

3.

little green startups I invest in their promise and reap ripe rewards #haiku#napomo@tspoetrypic.twitter.com/wYTdM6Xk9x — The Well-Versed Mom (@WellVersedMom) April 2, 2014

4.

#haiku #micropoetry always the tree that never thought it would fall firewood — Coyote (@CoyoteSings) May 2, 2014

5.

The bulldozers came. To remove trees for a street. Elm Tree Avenue. #SuburbanHaiku — Jonathan Shipley (@shipleywriter) May 6, 2014

6.

Parents are struggling through Advanced Placement carpools and get no credit. #suburbanhaiku

— Peyton Price (@Suburbanhaiku) May 1, 2014

7.

He talks of Mohs scales, /she of astral signs./They gather rubies on the long Silk Road. @tspoetry #loveetc

— Maureen Doallas (@Doallas) March 20, 2014

8.

Sneaker in the crosswalk, where are you going all by yourself? #micropoetry

— Laura Brown (@lauralynn_brown) April 4, 2014

9.

* He uses rhyme like ketchup to hide the naked taste of words. * #heartsoup #vss #micropoetry #5lines

— Poetry Here and Now (@PoetsHereAndNow) May 6, 2014

10.

@nightslostsoul#tanka#5lines again cherry blossoms as if there was nothing else to write about

— Scott Reid (@apwpoet) April 14, 2014

Photo by Chiara Chremaschi,  Creative Commons via Flickr.

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Will Willingham

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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