How to define "very short"? Shorter than a sonnet perhaps?
One of my favorites:
Love Without Hope
Love without hope, as when the young birdcatcher
Swept off his tall hat to the squire's own daughter,
Thus letting the imprisoned larks escape and fly,
Singing about her head as she rode by.
--Robert Graves
I first encountered it as a "poem on the Underground" many many years ago in London, and it stuck with me instantly.
There's a newish zine out that specializes in only very short poems--Blink, I think it is called.
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