micropoem

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noun

A very short poem.

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Meanings

nounmicropoem (plural micropoems)

plural micropoems · alternative micro-poem

  1. A very short poem.

    As the book's final micropoem tells us: Unerzählt / bleibt die Geschichte / der abgewandten / Gesichter. “Unrecounted / remains the story / of the averted / faces.”

    2010, Ruth Franklin, A Thousand Darknesses: Lies and Truth in Holocaust Fiction, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 198

Origin

From micro- + poem.

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APA

micropoem. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/micropoem

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“micropoem.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/micropoem. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “micropoem,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/micropoem.

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