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. Here are 10 poetic tweets we enjoyed seeing recently.
1.
#haiku #micropoetry outside picking sunrise out of an old apple tree
— Coyote (@CoyoteSings) August 12, 2015
2.
the sun’s heat through the parting clouds her third button #haiku — Dave Read (@AsSlimAsImBeing) August 10, 2015
3.
divided highway we don’t speak for hours #senryu #blog http://t.co/HZTZRprgXH
— Dave Read (@AsSlimAsImBeing) August 16, 2015
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#5lines #micropoetry tearing down a wall of brick clichés, the uncommon bonded in the mortar — Eusebeia Philos (@Eusebeia_Philos) August 16, 2015
5.
#5lines opening his cupped palm . . . a cricket with a little hop left
— sage stone (@sagestone_) August 15, 2015
6.
fine long stem the buttercup filled with sunlight #haiku — Beez Laine (@beezknez) May 2, 2015
7.
maybe death was just another figure, round shouldered by the vending machines with crumpled paper cup in triage like the rest of us #vss
— Brendan Bonsack (@BrendanBonsack) August 13, 2015
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In the hay meadow, the spools of grass wound tight. All the powder of what’s ahead. My shadow walking more like my mother. #endofsummer — Angie LaPaglia (@myearthgirl) August 13, 2015
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fading summer more seed capsules than poppies #micropoetry #tanshi http://t.co/IeGJIFHN8D
— caroline skanne (@CarolineSkanne) August 15, 2015
10.
tangled in bittersweet and woodbine I reach for the summers day catching only shadow and shade — Kathleen (@everettpoetry) August 14, 2015
Photo by Hiroyuki Takeda Creative Commons license via Flickr.
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Maureen says
bittersweet summer—
more seed than apple, my mother
old and parting
*
spools of old highway
long hours walking round-shouldered
just tree-cupped sunlight
*
fine powder cupped
in paper capsules I reach
ahead for another
*
his palm cupped, opening
her third button—sunlight
for the rest of us
nancy marie davis says
smile…
Kathleen says
I so appreciate being included – thanks! K
nancy marie davis says
words speaking
tweeting from inside
a yellow rose bush