15 Words Poems | Examples


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Love in 15 words

When we first met
Sparks flew from heart to heart.
Mesmerized,
Your mojo
Working overtime

Premium Member Poetic Pokin

If you are Rushin
When it comes down to Pushkin
It will end in shovkin






3 lines, 15 words, Credit to Madeline

Last Breath

My last breath
will turn our life
into dust particles
blowing through
your silky fingertips

7/14/2017


Inspired by:
prompt "like dust"
15 words exactly


Live Life

Wake up
Be grateful
We own this life
for a short season

Live life
Wholeheartedly


Challenge: poem no more than 15 words
Photo: addicted2success.com

Pack Hunters

Like a pack of wolves 
shredding the flesh of their kill,
The pack of priests 
tears my soul apart.



~Abdul Malik / 12/19/15 / words: 19
~Something with great impact contest by nette onclaud

Love In 15 Words Or Less

The universal language, selfless culture, true religion, answered question and yet
questionable (illogical) answer.



OR



Answered question, answered answer, questionable (illogical) & unquestionable answer yet
looks like an unanswered answer.


Don'T Let It Slip Away

Stripped, abused and tortured.
Help me, my life's but one -
Don't let it slip away!




Authors notes

Enforcing a picture and or meaning in 15 words.

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