Home › Words › M › micropoemmicropoemmicropoem means A very short poem.EtymologyFrom micro- + poem.nounA very short poem.e.g.“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:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).