micropoem

English

Alternative forms

• micro-poem

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.”