FACT: A dragonfly larvae lives up to three years, but in the winged-state they live only a few weeks. Anytime you see a dragonfly in their winged-state, know that they are close to the end of their lifespan.
Just like the dragonfly, tweets are only searchable for a short while, and tweeted haiku would be lost if someone didn’t collect and archive these elegant works of art.
* These haiku are Twitter’s poetry in it’s winged-state *
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Limitations of this blog:
I collect these haiku using the Twitter search site for the #haiku, #tanka, and #micropoetry, hashtags. I do my best to read every haiku under this tag every couple of days to find the best haiku for your poetic pleasure. However, just like in real life, one cannot hope to capture every dragonfly that has ever flown.
I hope you enjoy the blog. Peace and grace to all the haiku poets. Namasté.
@NotOneNotTwo
トンボの番人
The Dragonfly Archives 蜻蜓亨特 
reading dragons…fly till they die…ageless wonders
Beautiful site & blog. Serendipitously discovered via @terrastellaluna. Peaceful. Graceful. I love it! An apt and elegant homologue(?)for the quintessence of Twitter itself. Inspiring and gentle.Thankyou. M
p.s your site needs a Twitter badge :))
So happy you’re doing this. Some of my Twitter friends and I try to at least retweet the haiku we come across. Especially @simonscotland.
Looks like all my little dragonflies have escaped into the great beyond . . .
J/K (I’ve preserved them all in a windowed box – pinning them onto a cork-board and labeling them in Latin).
Excellent idea for a blog though, will keep an eye on it!
lovely works and collections.. always a pleasure to read u in twitter :)
i like, and appreciate, the way you link to each author’s microblog. I’m curious, are you’re manually curating each tweet, cut-and-paste from Twitter search? Or have you automated your curation, in any way?
Mykl
renga AT mykl DOT org
I do everything manually. It takes a lot of time, because I am selecting each individual tweet for its content. Each work of poetry I save, I do because I think it is worth preserving, as most of the poetry you read just ends up on Twitter’s cutting room floor, after search expires. Also, it is impossible for everyone to see each work of poetry in the stream, so I take it upon myself to read each days search and collect the best of it and put it in a place people can easily find it. It is a lot of work, but I think it’s worth it.