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.
In no particular order, here are ten of the best Twitter poems we’ve seen in lately:
1.
strange days– the winter woolies are back on and a little dog is out walking wearing his blue jacket #micropoetry
— rob cairns (@robbiepoet) December 10, 2014
2.
on the downhill slope of time we run out of gas while gaining speed #5lines #micropoetry — Dave Read (@AsSlimAsImBeing) December 10, 2014
3.
#5lines #micropoetry in fury or with caress, the sea cleanses marks of trespass upon her shore
— Eusebeia Philos (@Eusebeia_Philos) December 4, 2014
4.
six crows fled the scene dubious of my pages crumpled full up in a violent origami of failed forgetting #5prompt #5lines — Solasea (@Solasea19) December 2, 2014
5.
in this landlocked city the fog comes at night from our dreams of mermaids singing for the sea #5lines #micropoetry
— YoniHK (@whichofawind) December 1, 2014
6.
#tanka #micropoetry #5lines Stars arrive and place utensils on the tablecloth of night. — Scott Reid (@apwpoet) December 1, 2014
7.
a pressed rose— tracing my thoughts in reverse #poetry #micropoetry #haiku 1594
— Sondra (@SondraJByrnes) December 10, 2014
8.
wind chime a text brings news of his death #haiku — markh (@forgottenworks) December 2, 2014
9.
#haiku #myku turning leaves the hush behind the library doors
— polona (@cirrusdream) December 1, 2014
10.
over the supermarket speakers the music we rebelled to in high school #5lines #micrcopoetry — Dave Read (@AsSlimAsImBeing) November 15, 2014
Photo by Jyrki Salmi, Creative Commons license via Flickr.
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SimplyDarlene says
humor is among us — iLike the top one and the bottom one best.
and that image? neat-mosquito!
Maureen Doallas says
Here’s a poem I wrote using individual words from the tweets:
Blue
blue days
run on
a hush of crows
gaining speed
in fury
over a downhill slope
brings news
in time
to reverse strange dreams
turning thoughts
behind doors
over to forgetting
death is a failed chime
leaves
the night wind
tracing marks on
the stars
text pressed
in a jacket of fog
crumpled on the sea shore