micropoem

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From micro- +‎ poem.

Noun

micropoem (plural micropoems)

  1. A very short poem.
    Hyponym: monostich
    • 2010, Ruth Franklin, A Thousand Darknesses: Lies and Truth in Holocaust Fiction, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 198:
      As the book's final micropoem tells us: Unerzählt / bleibt die Geschichte / der abgewandten / Gesichter. “Unrecounted / remains the story / of the averted / faces.”
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