Tweetspeak Poetry

  • Home
  • FREE prompts
  • Earth Song
  • Every Day Poems—Subscribe! ✨
  • Teaching Tools
  • Books, Etc.
  • Patron Love

Twitter Poems: Top 10 Poetic Tweets

By Will Willingham 7 Comments

Twitter Poems Top 10 Poetic Tweets (2)

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.

#senryu #micropoetry Doors of this poem to remain unlocked during business hours.

— Scott Reid (@apwpoet) November 14, 2015

2.

home from the opera their silent house #senryu #mpy

— Steven (@Stevenc58) November 10, 2015

3.

an autumn of empty frames.. awaiting the colors of spring.. #MadVerse #tenwords pic.twitter.com/CNxtqIgRlP

— anurag misra (@tritya3) October 16, 2015

4.

flamenco the spin and flight of maple keys #haiku

— Marianne Paul (@mariannpaul) October 26, 2015

5.

We will meet some day on the motorway Where I will open like a suitcase full of clouds #mpy #vss

— Brendan Bonsack (@BrendanBonsack) November 6, 2015

6.

cutting down the garden leaves of glass #poetry #micropoetry #haiku 2670

— Sondra (@SondraJByrnes) November 12, 2015

7.

a single yellow leaf returns footloose through the door #tanka @the_o_factor_

— Tzod Earf (@Ear2Earf) November 10, 2015

8.

morse code messages from the rain diagonal across the window #4lines #micropoetry

— Matt Quinn (@poemblaze) November 5, 2015

9.

worn photograph of a hunter in the olden days aiming somewhere into the future #5lines #micropoetry

— Davey (@haikutauren) November 4, 2015

10.

industrial moon– frogs calls from a corrugated creek bed #haiku #micropoetry

— Rob Cairns (@robbiepoet) November 12, 2015

Photo by kris krüg,  Creative Commons via Flickr.

Browse more Twitter poems
Go deeper: browse our Poets and Poems collection
________________________

Every Day Poems Ocean

Want more poems? We’ll send you one, every day.

Buy a year of Every Day Poems, just $5.99

  • Author
  • Recent Posts
Will Willingham
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.
Will Willingham
Latest posts by Will Willingham (see all)
  • Earth Song Poem Featured on The Slowdown!—Birds in Home Depot - February 7, 2023
  • The Rapping in the Attic—Happy Holidays Fun Video! - December 21, 2022
  • Video: Earth Song: A Nature Poems Experience—Enchanting! - December 6, 2022

Filed Under: Blog, poetry, Twitter poetry

Try Every Day Poems...

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 says

    November 19, 2015 at 6:12 pm

    flamenco clouds – a found poem

    a day at home awaiting
    the keys I open
    a full suitcase

    worn yellow like autumn
    in rain like colors
    in a creek that returns

    empty in the hours
    of spring frogs at their business
    footloose

    in the poem
    that leaves a poem
    in their garden bed

    a single maple leaf
    calls during flight—
    a opera we spin

    in through the door
    of this house
    a photograph messages

    through frames
    like morse code
    across an olden moon—

    an unlocked window into
    the future on the diagonal
    where we will meet

    the hunter somewhere
    silent aiming
    cutting down

    the glass on the motorway
    corrugated
    like flamenco clouds

    Reply
    • Sandra Heska King says

      November 19, 2015 at 9:51 pm

      “the hunter somewhere
      silent aiming
      cutting down

      the glass on the motorway”

      That stopped me in my tracks. You’re so good at this.

      Reply
      • Maureen says

        November 20, 2015 at 10:19 am

        Thank you both, Sandra and LW.

        The spacing is not quite as I set it out. I had fun with all the words.

        Reply
    • Will Willingham says

      November 19, 2015 at 9:42 pm

      Love this, Maureen.

      Reply
  2. Linda Simone says

    December 31, 2015 at 9:53 am

    A white hard-shelled sphere.
    The new year cracks wide open–
    Fuzzy yellow chick.

    Reply
    • Will Willingham says

      December 31, 2015 at 11:49 am

      Love that, Linda. 🙂

      Reply
  3. Antoinette Dickson says

    January 4, 2016 at 6:53 pm

    I loved this article. Micropoetry and haiku can be such a blessing to the reader.

    I would like to recommend another writer to add to your list. His name is Eric S. Townsend (@ericstownsend). I enjoy his take on “Twitter poetry meets haiku,” which he calls bizkūs. He’s already published two volumes of bizkūs (available on Amazon). Here’s one of my favorites: “bizkū #426 — when you share great news, note lulls and competition. not your top allies! #business #smallbiz #marketing #mktg #socialmedia”

    Reply

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Take How to Read a Poem

Get the Introduction, the Billy Collins poem, and Chapter 1

get the sample now

Welcome to Tweetspeak

New to Tweetspeak Poetry? Start here, in The Mischief Café. You're a regular? Check out our June Menu

Patron Love

❤️

Welcome a little patron love, when you help keep the world poetic.

The Graphic Novel

"Stunning, heartbreaking, and relevant illustrations"

Callie Feyen, teacher

read a summary of The Yellow Wallpaper

meet The Yellow Wallpaper characters

How to Write Poetry

Your Comments

  • Glynn on Poets and Poems: Patricia Clark and “O Lucky Day”
  • Patricia Clark on Poets and Poems: Patricia Clark and “O Lucky Day”
  • Bethany on Collage: Unwrapping Gifts from the Quiet
  • L.L. Barkat on Collage: Unwrapping Gifts from the Quiet

Featured In

We're happy to have been featured in...

The Huffington Post

The Paris Review

The New York Observer

Tumblr Book News

Stay in Touch With Us

Categories

Learn to Write Form Poems

How to Write an Acrostic

How to Write a Ballad

How to Write a Catalog Poem

How to Write a Ghazal

How to Write a Haiku

How to Write an Ode

How to Write a Pantoum

How to Write a Rondeau

How to Write a Sestina

How to Write a Sonnet

How to Write a Villanelle

5 FREE POETRY PROMPTS

Get 5 FREE inbox poetry prompts from the popular book How to Write a Poem

Shakespeare Resources

Poetry Classroom: Sonnet 18

Common Core Picture Poems: Sonnet 73

Sonnet 104 Annotated

Sonnet 116 Annotated

Character Analysis: Romeo and Juliet

Character Analysis: Was Hamlet Sane or Insane?

Why Does Hamlet Wait to Kill the King?

10 Fun Shakespeare Resources

About Shakespeare: Poet and Playwright

Top 10 Shakespeare Sonnets

See all 154 Shakespeare sonnets in our Shakespeare Library!

Explore Work From Black Poets

About Us

  • • A Blessing for Writers
  • • Our Story
  • • Meet Our Team
  • • Literary Citizenship
  • • Poet Laura
  • • Poetry for Life: The 5 Vital Approaches
  • • T. S. Poetry Press – All Books
  • • Contact Us

Write With Us

  • • 5 FREE Poetry Prompts-Inbox Delivery
  • • 30 Days to Richer Writing Workshop
  • • Poetry Prompts
  • • Submissions
  • • The Write to Poetry

Read With Us

  • • All Our Books
  • • Book Club
  • • Every Day Poems—Subscribe! ✨
  • • Literacy Extras
  • • Poems to Listen By: Audio Series
  • • Poet-a-Day
  • • Poets and Poems
  • • 50 States Projects
  • • Charlotte Perkins Gilman Poems Library
  • • Edgar Allan Poe Poems Arts & Experience Library
  • • William Blake Poems Arts & Experience Library
  • • William Shakespeare Sonnet Library

Celebrate With Us

  • • Poem on Your Pillow Day
  • • Poetic Earth Month
  • • Poet in a Cupcake Day
  • • Poetry at Work Day
  • • Random Acts of Poetry Day
  • • Take Your Poet to School Week
  • • Take Your Poet to Work Day

Gift Ideas

  • • Every Day Poems
  • • Our Shop
  • • Everybody Loves a Book!

Connect

  • • Donate
  • • Blog Buttons
  • • By Heart
  • • Shop for Tweetspeak Fun Stuff

Copyright © 2025 Tweetspeak Poetry · FAQ, Disclosure & Privacy Policy