what is the shortest poem you have written?

in words and/or in time?
and
could you/would you write one piece a day for say two months regardless of length?

A poem or whatever you write should be good. It doesn`t matter how much time it will take.

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Originally Posted by hannah_arendt

A poem or whatever you write should be good. It doesn`t matter how much time it will take.

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hannah do you write poetry?

I have two complete and very short: one word each.

Panda

Lemur

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Originally Posted by cafolini

I have two complete and very short: one word each.

Panda

Lemur

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''lemur'': fascinating word:
The word "lemur" derives from the word lemures (ghosts or spirits) from Roman mythology and was first used to describe a slender loris due to its nocturnal habits and slow pace, but was later applied to the primates on Madagascar. :)

The shortest poem I have written is a haiku which goes like this:

rain carving craters
sunshine creating shadows
silence filling both

Jassy that is a lovely haiku. I enjoyed that:)

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Originally Posted by cacian

hannah do you write poetry?

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Yes, I do:)

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Originally Posted by hannah_arendt

Yes, I do:)

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cool do you have one to share with us? :)

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Originally Posted by cacian

Jassy that is a lovely haiku. I enjoyed that:)

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Thank you. It was totally spontaneous as I think all authentic haikus are.

I liked that also, Jassy. Very nice.

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Originally Posted by cacian

cool do you have one to share with us? :)

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I think that I have written only 5 in English:

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Suddently you couldn`t be sure of the words.
Sounds as well as the meaning became futile and dank.
The shape of my eye and arm could be called whatever you wanted.
I was to lose myself in drone of muttering.
However,
I wasn`t.


If you speak Spanish you can read my poems here:

http://metapoesia.es.tl/Anna-Banasiak.htm

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Originally Posted by Calidore

I liked that also, Jassy. Very nice.

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Thank you

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Originally Posted by hannah_arendt

I think that I have written only 5 in English:

***
Suddently you couldn`t be sure of the words.
Sounds as well as the meaning became futile and dank.
The shape of my eye and arm could be called whatever you wanted.
I was to lose myself in drone of muttering.
However,
I wasn`t.

If you speak Spanish you can read my poems here:

http://metapoesia.es.tl/Anna-Banasiak.htm

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Very nice Hannah it is very different and intriguing.
I have just constructed this. I am trying very short to see where it leads me ;)

quiet preserves silence
from bottle to jar
the act is instant barred
timeless sits lasts
to ages it's art

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Originally Posted by cacian

Very nice Hannah it is very different and intriguing.
I have just constructed this. I am trying very short to see where it leads me ;)

peace preserves silence
from bottle to jar
an act is instant bared
timeless sits quite
to ages it's marv

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Thanks:) However, I think that I shouldn`t change in it something:)

My poetry tends to go on and on... but I must admit I like short poems. I think it is often more effective to say something pertinent and meaningful in 4 lines than in 40.

This is my shortest poem, at two stanzas in length. I'm reasonably happy with it:

this is the way

The world corrupts, the world corrupts and falls,
and bright hoar ice inscribes the standing stones
about this place of death, this place of loss,
with veins of crackling cold, the script of time
writ large upon the silent graves around.

For we, the unfulfilled, that linger long,
too long, upon this whittling witless world,
yet know the truth that lies beneath our own
low pulse, that day by day counts out our lives.
It is the secret silence and the maw,
the fateful tick, the tock, and nothing more.

I occasionally write an epigram in the tradition of Donne and the Renaissance poets. It's a challenge putting a thought into a catchy line or two. Here's one:

Accord
A CHORD’s a group of notes being played
On diverse instruments,
A CORD’s to strangle those that don’t
Discern the difference.

Shortest time it took me to write one? Hard to say... maybe a few hours?

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Originally Posted by Lokasenna

My poetry tends to go on and on... but I must admit I like short poems. I think it is often more effective to say something pertinent and meaningful in 4 lines than in 40.

This is my shortest poem, at two stanzas in length. I'm reasonably happy with it:

this is the way

The world corrupts, the world corrupts and falls,
and bright hoar ice inscribes the standing stones
about this place of death, this place of loss,
with veins of crackling cold, the script of time
writ large upon the silent graves around.

For we, the unfulfilled, that linger long,
too long, upon this whittling witless world,
yet know the truth that lies beneath our own
low pulse, that day by day counts out our lives.
It is the secret silence and the maw,
the fateful tick, the tock, and nothing more.

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very nice piece although I would not call it short. Is this piece an adaption to a studied form?

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Originally Posted by MorpheusSandman

I occasionally write an epigram in the tradition of Donne and the Renaissance poets. It's a challenge putting a thought into a catchy line or two. Here's one:

Accord
A CHORD’s a group of notes being played
On diverse instruments,
A CORD’s to strangle those that don’t
Discern the difference.

Shortest time it took me to write one? Hard to say... maybe a few hours?

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Few hours really?
I am not familiar with epigrams. I do like the poem ''Accord'' it is different. :)

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Originally Posted by cacian

Few hours really?

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Like I said, it's hard to say. The shortest poems I typically write are cinquains, and while I'm often able to write one quite quickly, I often spend at least an hour or two tweaking it.

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Originally Posted by cacian

I am not familiar with epigrams. I do like the poem ''Accord'' it is different. :)

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Thanks. Epigrams are just short, memorable sayings in verse. Coleridge probably wrote the definitive epigram about epigrams:


What is an Epigram? A dwarfish whole;
Its body brevity, and wit its soul.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

boo hoo
doggie poo

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My shortest is a haiku. But since I am an iconoclast I bastardized the form to make it 7/5/5 instead of 5/7/5. I took the title from the title of a poem by Arthur Rimbaud that was lost. Rimbaud's biographers say that Verlaine considered it to be Rimbaud's finest poem. But Verlaine was drinking a lot of absinthe at the time.

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Originally Posted by Melanie

boo hoo
doggie poo

:biggrin5:

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Great emotional distress distilled to four words. Nicely done.

How about two words on the pain of rejection?

No?
Woe!

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No?
Woe!

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Haha nice one ;)


ah!
well.
short is to tale
long is to mail

:)