Twitter Haiku

It's not too surprising that lots of people tweet haiku--the 140-character limit lends itself to the form.

Every other day or so, this guy suggests a word...

and other people write a haiku using it.

More often, people just throw random haiku out there.

Here's a haiku from someone who always tweets as a stapler.

This phenomenon really embodies the idea of writing poetry just for the sake of writing poetry. Tweets just float downstream and disappear. Poetry isn't practical, and a lot of times, nothing tangible comes of it, but it's fun and it keeps your brain and maybe your soul alive.