Tweetspeak Poetry

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

Poem Presents—A Poem Is a Gift No Distance Can Erase

By T.S. Poetry 2 Comments

In this time of distancing, many of us feel the desire to share with others. It can be frustrating to figure out how we can do that freely, and with heart. Especially if we have to stay at home.

It’s been said that a poem is a presence, and we agree. A beautiful poem, a hopeful poem, a poem of comfort is also a gift.

So Tweetspeak Poetry is hosting a special project called “Poem Presents.”

It’s simple to participate. Just find a few poems of beauty, comfort, hope (or even humor)—from a site like Poetry Foundation. You could also subscribe to Every Day Poems, which focuses on delivering poems that inspire, bring insight, and grant a sense of hope.

Share your poem gifts with friends, family, co-workers—and with us by adding an @tspoetry on Twitter or Instagram.

You can share a whole poem, or just a quote. Use the hashtag #poempresents so we can see and celebrate.

Over time, we’ll also occasionally choose some of your presents to share with the larger Tweetspeak community. If the poem is under copyright, we’ll share just a portion of it.

We look forward to the treasures of beauty, comfort, and hope that you’ll find and share. And we wish you many poetic gifts to close the distances.

With hope and warm encouragement,

Laura L. Barkat
Publisher, Tweetspeak Poetry

And, the Tweetspeak Team

gift-box-bow-ribbon-white-background-1032246

A Few Poem Presents You Could Give Right Now

“Get close to the things that slide away in the dark.
Be grateful even for the boredom
That sometimes seems to involve the whole world.
Think of the frost
That will crack our bones eventually.”

— Tom Hennen, from Darkness Sticks To Everything: Collected and New Poems

see all of Love for Other Things
 

“Suddenly, in every tree,
an unseen nest
where a mountain
would be.”

— Tess Gallagher, from Midnight Lantern

see all of Choices
 

“Whiter
than the crust
left by the tide,
we are stung by the hurled sand
and the broken shells.”

— H.D., more Collected Poems 1912-1944

see all of The Wind Sleepers
 

“We have so little of each other, now. So far
from tribe and fire. Only these brief moments of exchange.
What if they are the true dwelling of the holy, these
fleeting temples we make together when we say, ‘Here,
have my seat,’ ‘Go ahead—you first,’ ‘I like your hat.’”

— Danusha Laméris, from Bonfire Opera

see all of Small Kindnesses

 

“There is this moment
when your heart sinks
out there on the mesa.
You thought there’d be a river
just around this corner”

— L.L. Barkat, author of Earth to Poetry

see all of Rider
 

Missing a kick
at the icebox door
It closed anyway

—Jack Kerouac, in Haiku in English: The First Hundred Years

"If you think that you can grasp me, think again:
my story flows in more than one direction
a delta springing from the riverbed
with its five fingers spread"
from Delta by Adrienne Rich#poempresents @tspoetry

— HisFireFly (@HisFireFly) April 8, 2020

To all those women of a certain age who, like me, continue to live in denial. From Judith Viorst. @tspoetry #poempresents #poetry pic.twitter.com/sBL7JDiUkR

— SandraHeskaKing (@SandraHeskaKing) April 8, 2020

'…imagine what it could mean//to stand, just for a moment,/on the span of wonder….' @llbarkat 'In the Park at the Golden Hour' #DipIntoPoetry @EDayPoems @tspoetry #NationalPoetryMonth #poempresents

— Maureen Doallas (@Doallas) April 10, 2020

"A voice from the dark called out,
‘The poets must give us
imagination of peace, to oust the intense, familiar
imagination of disaster. Peace, not only
the absence of war.’"
Denise Levertov#poempresents @tspoetry

— HisFireFly (@HisFireFly) April 11, 2020

Important reminder. @LRKnost @tspoetry #poetrypresents #peaceispossible pic.twitter.com/04k5roMaWu

— Michelle Eades (@MichelleLEades) April 21, 2020

  • Author
  • Recent Posts
T.S. Poetry
T.S. Poetry
Helping you get inspired. With poetry & poetic things.
T.S. Poetry
Latest posts by T.S. Poetry (see all)
  • 10 Ways to Help Your Favorite Introverted Author—Day 1: The Basic - May 9, 2025
  • Free E-Book + Poetry Prompt! - April 14, 2025
  • Braving the Poem: Interview with Catherine Abbey Hodges - March 24, 2025

Filed Under: Blog, Every Day Poems, Poem Presents

Try Every Day Poems...

Comments

  1. Katie says

    April 17, 2020 at 11:27 am

    Found this bright poem by A.A. Milne at Redeemed Reader:

    “She wore her yellow sun-bonnet,
    She wore her greenest gown;
    She turned to the south wind
    And curtsied up and down.
    She turned to the sunlight
    And shook her yellow head,
    And whispered to her neighbor:
    Winter is dead.”

    🙂

    Reply
    • L.L. Barkat says

      April 17, 2020 at 7:39 pm

      We surely need a few bright poems along the way. Thanks for sharing, Katie. 🙂

      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 May 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

  • Donna Hilbert on Poets and Poems: L.L. Barkat and “Beyond the Glass”
  • L.L. Barkat on Poets and Poems: L.L. Barkat and “Beyond the Glass”
  • Poets and Poems: L.L. Barkat and “Beyond the Glass” - Tweetspeak Poetry on Love, Etc.: Poems of Love, Laughter, Longing & Loss
  • Glynn on World War II Had Its Poets, Too

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