On epigrams and Haikus

Some poems here are quite brief, to say the least.

It is most correct enought to see brief poems as divided in two groups: Epigrams and Haikus. The first is a poem that consists in a short and ingenious statement, so you shall look at it as a very clever and handy condensed idea.

e.g:

Here lies my wife: here let her lie!
Now she´s at rest-and so am I

-- John Dryden


A Haiku is a poetic structure that comes from traditonal Japanese culture; it is usually two ideas joined by a color giving connector, which might be other sentence, and usually on a natural theme

e.g:

"Every leaf
of ten long autums
in an instant"

-William Ospina