Rhythm and Rhyme: How to Find the Poetry in Everyday Tweets

Some people like to say that there’s little literary value on the internet — especially on places like Twitter, where messages have to be cut short. People are too busy “lol”-ing and abbreviating, shunning the poetic language we found in those handwritten letters of days past. But if you look in the right places, Twitter is full of poetry.

Poetry of meaning is easy to find in a lot of places on Twitter. Perhaps predictably, the Dalai Lama’s account regularly releases tweets that convey simple truths in beautiful ways:

Then there are plenty of accounts that are more explicit about releasing what we consider poetry.

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