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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Mar 29th, 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.
Mar 29th, 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.
Mar 29th, 2008 at 5:30 pm
Eve
Believed.
jb says: Oh, do keep ‘em coming.
Apr 27th, 2008 at 4:05 pm
I once wrote this attempt at “world’s smallest poem”:
———-
po-em
I am
———–
Thank you,
jerry
May 30th, 2008 at 11:30 pm
Credited to former boxer Mohammed Ali:
—-
Me
We
—-
…. very cool!