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.

1.

the scratch of a crow sore throat #3lines #haiku

— Reka Jellema (@RekaJellema) March 14, 2015

2.

Let’s say the rain ate the sea then poured it out. —Oscar Brady (Age 8) http://t.co/HnlBO5DiiD — Rattle (@RattleMag) March 14, 2015

3.

She just stomped at me! Just who does she think she is? Deer in the garden.

— Peyton Price (@Suburbanhaiku) March 8, 2015

4.

my shadow waits at the end of the street the trees and I barely breathe #writtenriver

— Solasea (@Solasea19) March 13, 2015

5.

Will this ever cease? Midnight ventriloquizes. Or I do. Ice melts. #haiku #Insomnia

— Amy Billone (@AmyBillone) February 24, 2015

6.

Bingo, blango, bungle, he’s just a smidgen jungly. Bungalow in an undertow, jangling a bludgeon over the curmudgeon. #micropoetry #TwipAnon

— Bloaty Poetry (@BloatyPoetry) March 9, 2015

7.

wheels have broken and the children only laugh as they were taught to #3lines #mpy #vss #micropoetry #amwriting #poetry

— David Starzynski (@sfourstarz) March 9, 2015

8.

#3lines #micropoetry mind games- suitable for players of all ages

— Eusebeia Philos (@Eusebeia_Philos) March 9, 2015

9.

#tanka #micropoetry I arrange these words into a flower which I press between the pages of this poem

— Coyote (@CoyoteSings) March 9, 2015

10.

even the trail is lost now, distance itself conspiring to leave #micropoetry #5lines #gogyoshi

— Sean (@writemiracles) March 9, 2015

 

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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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