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. Sometimes, it so happens we read a tweet and say to ourselves, “That’s poetry.” It’s Twitter Poetry. Maybe it didn’t even mean to be a poem, but it’s a poetic thing all the same. It’s a way of using words well.

We want to take notice.

Here are ten of the best poetic tweets we’ve seen in the last few weeks:

1.

#tanka #5lines #micropoetry Use scoop and plastic bag to pick up clichés.

— Scott Reid (@apwpoet) January 7, 2014

2.

He wished he had an interesting face. He turned his head upside down. Promising. — George Szirtes (@george_szirtes) January 8, 2014

 3.

sipping angst through a straw at her leisure the waiter offers a refill #micropoetry #5lines — Eusebeia Philos (@Eusebeia_Philos) January 8, 2014

 4.

just before sleep I listen to time his bony fingers tapping to the rhythm of himself #tanka #micropoetry

— Davey (@haikutauren) January 6, 2014

 5.

#tanka #micropoetry how I would have stayed eight forever if I had known how fast twenty-one turned into fifty-five

— Coyote (@CoyoteSings) January 8, 2014

6.

all the dust that’s swept into the world’s wind and the particle that is me #micropoetry #tanka

— Frank Watson (@FollowBlueFlute) January 4, 2014

 7.

In his rocking chair he goes back and forth on whether she was right. #5lines #micropoetry

— Slym Being (@AsSlimAsImBeing) January 20, 2014

8.

rippling tide— the middle-aged client asks me to remove all her wrinkles in Photoshop #5lines — cyndi m (@LA_mojo) February 2, 2014

9.

We could hear her open door policy slam shut. #5lines #micropoetry — Slym Being (@AsSlimAsImBeing) January 31, 2014

 10.

all these people flooding the train silvery skin on faces turning into cellphones #tanka#micropoetry

— Davey (@haikutauren) January 23, 2014

 Photo by Allspice1,  Creative Commons license 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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