Short Poetry

[ForKnowledge]

Is the size of a poem really that important? I have posted poetry on other sites and have always gotten the same critiscm (its not long enough) anyway here is an example

The pious observer alone in his lie
Lost to the winds
His heart with his mind
epitahets allusions the darkness of time
absconding from truth
pellucid little lie

any feedback on this poem or short poetry in general?

[symphony]

Oh in LitNet there's nothing called too short for poetry! You'll see numerous threads for short poems like one each for tiny poems, 8-word poems, haikus, cinquains, etc.
If you think you've said what you wanted to say, why bother with the length! I never liked poems that drag too much. :) Yours is a very nice one. Your choice of "to" instead of "in" in the second line was interesting. But did you mean "epithets" in the 4th line? Overall I really liked the poem. Brisk and lives the moment it describes.

[V.Jayalakshmi]

Dear Members,

Here is one from me.
.................................................. .........
Here is one from me,

Too short as I had no words to speak.

Muted and so showing only pictures,

Voluminous when pressed to be loud.

I am the remote of this life,a show for all to see.

[blazeofglory]

Is the size of a poem really that important? I have posted poetry on other sites and have always gotten the same critiscm (its not long enough) anyway here is an example

The pious observer alone in his lie
Lost to the winds
His heart with his mind
epitahets allusions the darkness of time
absconding from truth
pellucid little lie

any feedback on this poem or short poetry in general?

This poem is beautifully written and we long it to be lengthened. Not that it is incomplete. yet the beauty of it calls for length.

[Mar_Moh]

It is good one! the fact it is short has nothing to do with its beauty.

[PrinceMyshkin]

The shorter poems - if they are well done - nevertheless require more faith in one's readers willingness to spend more emotional energy on them, to dwell with them a little longer or more deeply. In effect, the reader completes the poem in his or her head, making it more of a truly shared experience.

It takes a certain kind of strength to leave your poem as it is when you have said all you really need to say rather than to 'milk' the effect.