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The World’s Smallest Poem?

john baker, March 29th, 2008. 5 comments. Filed under writing.

Jim Murdoch has some ideas about what it might be. Following a trail through Japanese and Scottish Haiku, he arrives at . . .

Well, you’ll have to go to his site to find out.

In the meantime:

If you’d asked me before I started working on this article what the world’s shortest poem was I would have said:

FLEAS

Adam
Had ’em.

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5 Responses to “The World’s Smallest Poem?”

  1. minx says:
    29th March 2008 at 9:46 am

    Reminds me of ‘Winter’….

    F**k,
    it’s cold.

    jb says: I’m not sure I allow asterisks on this blog. Must get a policy on it.

  2. Jim Murdoch says:
    29th March 2008 at 3:19 pm

    Thanks for the plug, John. Always appreciated. I have to say this has been an extraordinarily popular blog. My visits have gone through the roof. Micropoetry is obviously of much greater interest to people than I ever expected. The thing is there was so much I didn’t include. I mean, I had to expand it to two posts as it was. One I wish I’d remembered at the time was John Cooper Clark’s clever haiku:

    To convey one’s mood
    in seventeen syllables
    is very diffic

    jb says: Your efforts are appreciated, Jim. I enjoyed both parts, and I enjoyed the John Cooper Clark, too.

  3. Debi says:
    29th March 2008 at 5:30 pm

    Eve
    Believed.

    jb says: Oh, do keep ’em coming.

  4. Jerry Batcheler says:
    27th April 2008 at 4:05 pm

    I once wrote this attempt at “world’s smallest poem”:
    ———-
    po-em
    I am
    ———–
    Thank you,

    jerry

  5. Carlos Perez says:
    30th May 2008 at 11:30 pm

    Credited to former boxer Mohammed Ali:

    —-
    Me
    We
    —-

    …. very cool!