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Twitter Poems: Top Ten Poetic Tweets

By Will Willingham 1 Comment

We spend a lot of time on Twitter. (We’re Tweetspeak Poetry,  after all.) 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.

In no particular order, here are ten of the best Twitter poems we’ve seen in lately:

1.

time and I reconciled again the curve shifting upwards into expectation #5lines #micropoetry

— Davey (@haikutauren) September 28, 2014

2.

not inclined to dance after all rainstorm #senryu #micropoetry — Slym Being (@AsSlimAsImBeing) September 28, 2014

3.

a thing considered has too many sides it all slips through your fingers #HaikuChallenge – consider #micropoetry pic.twitter.com/uGHtTliSXC

— marianne ridgewell (@micorsica) September 25, 2014

4.

#tanka #micropoetry you and I still sleeping the dawn rain so careful not to wake us — Coyote (@CoyoteSings) September 25, 2014

5.

the light touch of blue falling asleep is climbing stairs made of air #tanka #micropoetry

— Davey (@haikutauren) September 29, 2014

on a late night dog walk through suburbia my groove’s a girl tucked deep in the country in a line from my old poem #tanka — Dreams (@DreamsOfTaos) October 5, 2014

6.

birds made a silver nest in her hair, and she stood still until she became a birch tree #tanka #5lines

— M. Kei (@kujakupoet) October 4, 2014

7.

#tanka #micropoetry #5lines @CostisDemos Licks a little bit of moon from my fingertip— Meow.

— Scott Reid (@apwpoet) September 29, 2014

8.

Sunday morning war at the feeder hummers  #haiku

— Karina Young (@karinamy3) October 5, 2014

9.

on the belly of the yellow perch the sun #haiku #haiga pic.twitter.com/CkX3ya9NGd

— Marianne Paul (@mariannpaul) September 29, 2014

10.

down my spine a mountain range erupts the sun grinds south

— Angie LaPaglia (@myearthgirl) September 23, 2014

Photo by Gidzy,  Creative Commons license via Flickr. 

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Will Willingham
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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.

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  1. L. L. Barkat says

    October 15, 2014 at 9:23 am

    I love that photo. I feel like I would like to be that bird 🙂

    Especially liking this one:

    Licks
    a little bit
    of moon
    from my fingertip—
    Meow.

    Reply

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