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.

1.

New snow covers old as I ponder begonias or hostas for spring. #haiku #micropoetry

— Jennifer Jay (@AFadedGinger) February 26, 2015

2.

Unpublished poet starts counting Microsoft Word as a publication.

— News for Poets (@PoBizNews) February 17, 2015

3.

You say dangerous Precipitation. I say A rain of terror. #punku #haiku #senryu #amwriting #micropoetry #poetry #poem #poet #writing #mpy

— Demi Newell (@DemiNewell) February 24, 2015

4.

Cloud cover let the stars speak to me. #micropoetry #haiku

— Ishani (@musicmoonlove) February 18, 2015

5.

Disillusioned — my shopping cart suddenly full of fairy tale books #micropoetry

— Susie (@SusieAreYouOK) February 18, 2015

6.

Slivers of purple moons fall carelessly beyond the pale.

— haikueveryday (@haikueveryday) February 25, 2015

7.

flight delay— just a leaf or two left dangling #poetry #micropoetry #haiku 1871

— Sondra (@SondraJByrnes) February 24, 2015

8.

I am a prism just a spectacle of words waiting for the light

— The Imagined Jay (@theimaginedjay) December 11, 2014

9.

You words to me an invisible cloud as useless as a smoke signal in the fog. #5lines #micropoetry

— Out of the Blue (@BlueHaiku2) February 26, 2015

10.

A feather how tenderly it trembles — the sky in my hands #micropoetry#5lines

— Susie (@SusieAreYouOK) February 20, 2015

Photo by coniferconifer,  Creative Commons 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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