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English
Etymology
From micro- + poem.
Noun
micropoem (plural micropoems)
- A very short poem.
- Hyponym: monostich
2010, Ruth Franklin, A Thousand Darknesses: Lies and Truth in Holocaust Fiction, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 198:As the book's final micropoem tells us: Unerzählt / bleibt die Geschichte / der abgewandten / Gesichter. “Unrecounted / remains the story / of the averted / faces.”