One of the shortest poems I know is by Ezra Pound (1885-1972) and goes:

quote:

In a Station at the Metro

The apparition of these faces in the crowd;
Petals on a wet, black bough.

There has been much debate over the years as to whether or not this is actually a two or three-line poem, as some see the heading as actually making sense as a first line.

I've been trying to write a poem that short and dense with meaning for years, but haven't been able to.

Then, the other day, I finally came up with this:

quote:

Life with depression

Sadness wets every day and I am a sponge.

Now it's your turn, people. Post your short poems here.

my favortie really short (though not as short as yours...) poem is by Emily Dickinson:

Had i not seen the Sun
I could have born the shade
But Light a newer Wilderness
My Wilderness has made--

as far as something i wrote..this is about the shortest. i'm not sure if it's a really short poem or a couple lines of a longer one i haven't written yet. as of now it remains short:

recuperation

wounds heal
scars form my armor now

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Zoom and Argy- Those are nice short poems.

I don't have any of my own but these two are my favorites:

If an owl weighed a ton it would sound like…
a train.
-Mothman (He was my sisters's boyfriend in 1972.)

Unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies it remains but a single grain; yet if it dies, it produces a rich harvest.
-John 12:24