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.

Found #poem: “Toner Low.” #poetryatwork pic.twitter.com/uyq0EJZbF5

— The Well-Versed Mom (@WellVersedMom) February 11, 2014

2.

on my thirtieth birthday a rejection slip in the mail if I were Keats I’d be dead #tanka — Liam Wilkinson (@ldwilkinson) March 3, 2014

  3.

#tanka #micropoetry laughter bounces from the warehouse to my office, the punchline never made it — Eusebeia Philos (@Eusebeia_Philos) March 3, 2014

4.

February dusk halfway down the driveway I am shoveling light

— Peter Newton (@ThePeterNewton) February 18, 2014

5.

. Holding a dove is a lovely thing but doves have wings. #micropoetry #haiku

— Positively Wyrde (@Wyrde) February 11, 2014

6.

#tanka #5lines @SteveOrmerod @SESYNCDirector Here lies a species who failed to learn how to uncook its bacon. http://t.co/2nqY4rNfGl — Scott Reid (@apwpoet) February 5, 2014

  7.

and another storm drops anchor in the bay of my skull // — forgottenworks (@forgottenworks) February 15, 2014

8.

he peels
an orange
awake

— Sondra (@SondraJByrnes) February 23, 2014

9.

You pick feathers, you Say, from my shoulder where they Never grew til now #haiku #poetry

— σηραλεκ (@shralec) February 27, 2014

10.

hush now / for the lock is flung open #humument #erasure pic.twitter.com/ftUSIJ4ofA

— cat (@cat_cat_) March 4, 2014

Photo by J U S T Y N A, 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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