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.

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Autumn wind gusts First leaf falls A solitary dancer As the ballet begins. #ashverse #micropoetry

— Jane Dougherty (@MJDougherty33) September 17, 2015

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psychic chapters that i could swear have already read me #orjay #micropoetry — Michael Seese (@MSeeseTweets) September 17, 2015

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smudged across my fingers the ink I thought would become my best poem #tanka #blog http://t.co/HZTZRprgXH

— Dave Read (@AsSlimAsImBeing) September 23, 2015

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three minutes to midnight– little dog brings cinderella her slipper #micropoetry #tanka — Rob Cairns (@robbiepoet) September 14, 2015

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first winter night side by side we lie on the floor her hand fingerprinting the stars on my chest http://t.co/WM1s6BVos7 #tanka #poetry

— Chen-ou Liu (@ericcoliu) September 14, 2015

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#5lines and one by one the old aunts died on Stilley Hill leaving nothing behind but a few strands of gossip — sage stone (@sagestone_) September 13, 2015

7.

talking our hands run wild #haiku

— Beez Laine (@beezknez) September 21, 2015

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high tide the strength it takes to stay afloat #poetry #micropoetry #haiku 2550 — Sondra (@SondraJByrnes) September 19, 2015

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with care she steps over the words he left unsaid #microprompt

— mae (@lamerfleurie) September 23, 2015

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#haiku #ku i said do not write today but this butterfly — Eamonn T O’Neill (@nightslostsoul) September 20, 2015

Photo by Greta Lovisa Gustafsson,  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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