Micropoetry: 3 Elfchen Poems

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Recently I discovered Elfchen poems, which are 5-line poems that follow this pattern:

Line 1 – 1 word

Line 2 – 2 words

Line 3 – 3 words

Line 4 – 4 words

Line 5 – 1 word (different than the first line word)

It is also common to take the last word of someone else’s Elfchen poem to start off your own new one.

Here are several of my first tries with this poetic genre:

1.

Always

means never

when you live

in an unstable world,

alone.

2.

Stronger

and yet

weakness creeps in

settles on the edge,

waiting.

3.

Unsaid

the words

lie firmly under

your tongue in cheek,

bitter.