Micro Poetry

China is a great country as the view of the poetry, there is about 3ooo years’ history of poetry. Among the great family, there are many kinds of poetry, like the poetry in Tang Dynasty and Song Dynasty as all of the Chinese known. But do you know there is another kind of poetry in China called “Micro Poetry”? In this blog, I will introduce it to you and experience the picturesque charm inside together with you.

Micro Poetry has existed since ancient Chinese; actually many of the earliest poetry in China were precisely the birth of the micro-poems, but they just appeared as part of the ancient poetry and we don’t call them micro poetry. The modern micro poetry has rapid developed since the New Culture Movement in China and be accepted by people since then.

Micro poetry is a kind of special poetry detached from small poetry. The content of it is poetry and the form is micro. As one word, micro poetry is kind of poetry with only 1-3 line besides the title. The title is an integral part of micro-poems, but also the content of micro-important of poetry. Micro-poems are colorful in the form, people can write it with 1-3 line in various forms according to their expression and aesthetics.

Maybe it is just because of its brevity, many of the poets today like to try it with great passion. And they always can find their own special ways to express varieties of feelings, which help the development of Micro Poetry very much. Just as someone said, micro-poems are easy to write, but are very hard to write good, write skilled, write as everyone praise highly. A poet writes so many poems in his life, and if among them there are several excellent micro-poems, poetic sufficient. Then, I want to share some micro-poems.

“One Generation” by Gu Cheng:

“Night gave me a black eye,
I used it to find the light.”

The poem was very famous at that time when China was still in a very dark situation. The two lines reflected the spiritual pursuit of the people in that generation. Although Gu Cheng was swallowed by the night unfortunately at last, his spirit was alive forever together with these two lines of poetry.

“Gravestone”:

“Bury you,
In the heart of the corner,
I’m your gravestone.”

Use the metaphor of people to gravestone, vivid imagery with extraordinary artistic shocking. “Bury you / in the heart of the corner,” you live in my heart. And “I’m your gravestone!” So strong, so deep feelings vent, how could people not be moved?

“Waiting”:

“Heart in front of wind,
Stand as a tree.”

No matter what kind of wind it is, no matter how cold it is, heart in front of it is just for a word “waiting”. Firm “waiting”, until “stand as a tree”! How sincere, tenacious, and moving it is!

There are many excellent micro-poems like these, and I think all of them are very meaningful and full of imagination. From them we not only can experience the interesting and strongly power of words, but also we can have a deeply view of person’s fine sentiments which are embalmed in poetry. At last, I hope that you have a better knowledge of the Micro Poetry after reading my blog, and maybe you also can have a try. Actually, I think it is much more colorful wrote in Chinese rather than in English, maybe it is just my feeling.