Sherry Chandler

Twitters and tweets

I have only recently discovered that poets, and those poetically inclined, like to use Twitter. Because it limits posts to 140 characters, it provides a disciplinary framework for writing short, haiku-like postings and aphorisms.

Poets who use Twitter are as varied in their tastes as rosswhite, from Durham, North Carolina, who always begins his tweets with Attn:

Attn geese: When you congregate at roadside, it does nothing to assuage my fears that you are up to something.

and Judith12, who lives at the very north end of Long Island:

With a snap of flag, white caps march across the water. Outside the window, roof perched, crow spreads morning headlines. Good morning all!

Dave Bonta, who blogs at Via Negativa and tweets at Morning Porch hit upon the idea of using the favorites function at Twitter to collect a sort of anthology of poetic tweets.

Figuring that great poets steal, I’ve decided to do the same thing. My anthology of favorite tweets can be found here. I invite you to come check it out from time to time. It will continue to grow. Watch Dave’s, too.

Some examples.

nancyghandi an American living in Chennai, India:

Someone sent a basket of mangoes from their trees. We cut two of them, and their sweet scent has spread all over the house.

Raqhun, from the Woods of Waldeck (WVA? Minnesota?):

I’ve been trying to explain that WILD raccoons hunt for food in the creek. They hear me out with politely disguised disbelief.

InvisibleTerry from Spokane:

Coffee, cranberry candle, and the expected value of a discrete random variable. It’s going to be a long day.

Dave Bonta, himself, from the mountains of Plummer’s Hollow, Pennsylvania:

At first light, the silhouette of a hawk in a dead tree above the corner of the field. A small rabbit grazes in the yard, ears twitching.

And even heartbreakers like this from the relief organization AmeriCares:

Hours of holding onto trees so as not to be swept away by rushing water has left people with lacerated arms and chests

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