Here's another favorite, by Anonymous:

He prayeth best who loveth best
All creatures great and small.
The Streotococcus is the test -
I love him least of all.

Very Short Poems
 

Hello to All,

I have always read this epitaph by W.B.Yeats as a very short poem by him about himself. Here it is:

W.B.Yeats (1865-1939)


'Cast a cold Eye
On Life, on Death.
Horseman, pass by!'


And here is the link:

http://www.poetsgraves.co.uk/yeats.htm

Warmest regards/Abid

Even though this is allegedly a short story by Ernest Hemingway, it has the conciseness, cut and slash, and gravitas-in-sketch of a flash poem:

For sale
Baby shoes
Never used

Cheers wkg

Here’s one of those linguistic nits
I’d like you all to share.
It’s not a Helly Copter; it’s
A Helico Pter.

Yeah. I wrote it. It's not great but it is short.

Separation

Your absence has gone through me
Like thread through a needle.
Everything I do is stitched with its color.

[W. S. Merwin]

Love that one, Marcia!
Thanks.

Nemo

You fit into me
like a hook into an eye

a fish hook
an open eye

--Margaret Atwood

Roy Campbell's imagistic

Fishing Boats in Martigues

Around the quays, kicked off in twos
The Four Winds dry their wooden shoes.

Very Short Poems
 

Hello to All,

If it is allowed and moderators do not mind it, I would like to submit one of my short poems. It was a little longer but I simply failed to improve upon the first two lines and friends told me to let them be during the www.criticalpoet.com days......thanks....warmest regards/Abid

The Touch (23-12-2004)

Saying goodbye,
your hand lingers in mine
like fragrance in the air.


(I was asked to get rid of these last three lines:

Carrying your touch
I try to walk steady
but they spot it and smile.)

Hi Abid,

As you invoked the moderator, here I am. Thanks for reviving this thread from seven years ago. It's always interesting to go through the archives and have a fresh look at a topic.

On the subject of posting your own poem, I would just remind you what the description of this forum is:

Musing on Mastery: The tradition of the masters: the classics & how they did it. (Metrical Poetry & Free Verse.)

However, we're not absolutely rigid on this. While discussing some tradition or some aspect of mastery, a point can be effectively made by quoting from one's own poems, and so we let it go. However, it's best if the thread doesn't turn into a parade of self-citations.

Thanks again for the interest in the topic.