had a good childhood
was an awkward teen
did well in school
worked hard played hard
found then lost love
AP: Honorable Mention 2025
how long it had been
and finally here she was
to my arms she had returned
right where she belongs
AP: Honorable Mention 2022
Submitted on August 8, 2022 for SHORT VERSE INSPIRED BY PICTURES (B - 20 words) sponsored by LISA YY - RANKED 3RD
No color
No numbers
No heaven
No hell
No God
No wants
No tense
No sense?
Know presence
Know happiness
20 words 10 lines free verse
Cultural insights from remote Piraha Amazon tribe
BREAKING MY HEART IN PIECES
Surreal, unconceivable, unbelievable!!!
Twenty family members so
sick with Covid, two critical.
Draining, mentally exhausting,
breaking my heart in pieces.
1/15/21 Line Gauthier
20-Words max - do it with feeling contest
Tears flow in torrents, I shiver and gulp, weeping loudly by the window at my dead cousin’s fleeting ghostly figure.
Date posted : January 16th 2021
Contest : 20 Words Max - Do It With Feeling Poetry Contest
Sponsor : Line Gauthier
Twenty Words verified by Poetry Soup Syllable Counter And Grammar Checker
Words spoken at night
You and I forevermore
Melancholy without you
The cemetery
Came to tell you I miss you.
Second Place: Line Gauthier-20 Words Max-1/17/21
For it is your name written
across my heart
and will remain long after
the sound of it’s final beat.
14.1.2021
Sponsor: Line Gauther
Contest:20 words poem (1st Place)
Hues of laughter
Roaring with color
Stirring seas of affection
Bared, your eyes meet mine
We touch, become one thought
20 words counted using Microsoft Word
Do it with feeling poetry contest, Sponsored by: Line Gauthier
January 14, 2021
slow tears of broken hearts,
deathly silence of lost war,
screams of mother in labour,
emotions we suffer or savour!
3rd placement
Written 13/Jan/2021
Line Gauthier sponsor
20 words maximum do it with feeling
poetry contest
His world
hangs on a wall.
His wheeled chair
sits in a corner.
His tillered escape –
the Barque,
Astral Traveler.
//20 words//
©11/17/2017
submitted to – PIC MOTIFS – poetry Contest
I checked out 20 words we owe to William Shakespeare and included them in this ditty about teenagers.
Bedazzled by new-fangled, multitudinous belongings,
fashionable youth in half-blooded pageantry
swagger uncomfortably amidst the inaudible manager
of their disheartening addictions.
Scuffling shy of eyeball contact
they cold-bloodedly eschew humanity
and view any effort toward eventful social intercourse
as an assassination attempt by an arch-villain
and as the Ladybird; play dead when threatened.
A pack of snarling wolves
baying for my blood.
Battered, bruised and bleeding
yet I won’t give up the fight!
Contest: Something with Great Impact
Sponsor Nette Onclaud
Jan Allison
20 words used
20th December 2015
That Pack
We warned you
about that pack
threatening
days and nights.
They captured you,
brought you down,
killer pack
Marlboro Lights.
Sandra M. Haight
~3rd Place~
Contest: Something With Great Impact
Sponsor: Nette Onclaud
Theme: Pack - 20 Words
Judged: 12/20/2015
I was told to "Pack it in."
"No!" I am not a quitter.
I never give up until I win.
>>>>>>>>><<<<<<<<<<<
20 Words
Lin Lane -December 18th 2015
Something With Great Impact
Contest Sponsor-Nette
When you smile
my heart lifts to soar on lover's wings
gliding on eternal winds of love
as I surrender.
20 words
contest Something with great impact
Frederic Parker
12/17/15
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