[Gail White]

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.

[Abid Hussain]

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

[Will Gourley]

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

[John Whitworth]

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.

[Marcia Karp]

Separation

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

[W. S. Merwin]

[R. Nemo Hill]

Love that one, Marcia!
Thanks.

Nemo

[Kimberly Poitevin]

You fit into me
like a hook into an eye

a fish hook
an open eye

--Margaret Atwood

[Orwn Acra]

Roy Campbell's imagistic

Fishing Boats in Martigues

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

[Abid Hussain]

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.)

[Gregory Dowling]

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.