121 Seven-Word Poems

This project began as a writing experiment for my poetry page on Facebook in October 2015. I sought to create micro poems, with as few words as possible, that substantiated realities in my life circumstances. Stretching poetic conventions to the edge of making sense, omitting verbs and articles without burying ideas, thoughts, or interpretation, seven words was the lowest applicable number I chose to present my cognition. I also sampled numbers of words below seven. However, seven words are ideal for the ideas presented in this project. Therefore,