Reflections of a working writer and reader
No improvement is too small or trivial to be worthwhile. Of a hundred alterations each may seem trifling or pedantic by itself; together they can raise the text to a new level. . . Should the finished text, no matter of what length, arouse even the slightest misgivings, these should be taken inordinately seriously, to a degree out of all proportion to their apparent importance. Theodor Adorno
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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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.
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.
Eve
Believed.
jb says: Oh, do keep ’em coming.
I once wrote this attempt at “world’s smallest poem”:
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po-em
I am
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Thank you,
jerry
Credited to former boxer Mohammed Ali:
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Me
We
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…. very cool!