World’s shortest poem in English

7 comments

• Jeff Evennett says:
  

  Strickland Gillilan is the author of “Fleas”. The poem is named Lines on the Antiquity of Microbes.

• joey gonzales says:
  

  Muhammad Ali has a shorter one and it goes like this:
  me,
  we !

• Faith Stern says:
  

  The shortest poem in the world is bythe American poet Eli Siegel. See below:

  One Question
  I –-
  Why?
  By Eli Siegel

  From Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana: Poems (Definition Press)
  © 1957 by Eli Siegel

  http://www.aestheticrealism.net/poetry/One-Question.html

• Janet says:
  

  Just fun! 😀

• english says:
  

  It’s English.

  Adam,
  Had them.

• annie says:
  

  lol,sry,i cant get the point of the poem.
  is it in english?or some other languages?

• Xkalibur says:
  

  I like it. 😀