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.

the shape of her absence new moon http://t.co/F3TkT9IN1T #haiku #poetry #micropoetry

— Chen-ou Liu (@ericcoliu) January 7, 2015

2.

is there anything like silence saying nothing while encompassing everything? #5lines

— Tzod Earf (@Ear2Earf) January 7, 2015

3.

Early January & moonlight pours across the darkling night. She wanders into the winter meadow, touching each stalk with silvered moonshine.

— Kathleen (@everettpoetry) January 7, 2015

4.

cold meadows overdressed with wind. we thought our coats would be enough. #haiku #micropoetry #amwriting #HeartSoup #vss #ashverse #poems

— Steven Kapela (@chrome_scarf) January 5, 2015

5.

volumes and volumes of what i was and what i would never be pic.twitter.com/rr3Vjrx9vF

— Robert Smith (@rasmithii) January 5, 2015

6.

internal organs made of glass my heart is especially brittle it often breaks eggshell wanting everyday to be the first day of Spring

— Edward Rinaldi (@blindedbeatpoet) January 5, 2015

7.

we look at each other wondering which one of us is the family dog

— markh (@forgottenworks) January 3, 2015

8.

#haiku #micropoetry as if the coyotes needed any help Pomeranian

— Coyote (@CoyoteSings) January 4, 2015

9.

he blushes– and, instantly, is eight again.

— [in] Vince Wil. (@inVinceWil) January 6, 2015

10.

a new year— i reframe the shot #poetry #micropoetry #haiku 1711

— Sondra (@SondraJByrnes) January 3, 2015

Photo by Paul Chlorean,  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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