20 Words Poems - Poems about 20 Words

my life in 20 words

...

had a good childhood
was an awkward teen
did well in school
worked hard played hard
found then lost love



AP: Honorable Mention 2025...

I Can Hardly Believe

...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 PI...

Piraha Poem

...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 ...

Breaking My Heart In Pieces

...BREAKING MY HEART IN PIECES

                        Surreal, unconceivable, unbelievable!!!
                                Twenty family members so
                                sick with Cov...

Stained Glass Cry

...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 Feelin...

Emotive Urge

...Emotive Urge


     Emotive urge surges
   
                 either to converge  on obsession

                          or to diverge through lamentation
 
                                 ...

Melancholy

...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...

I Tremble

...Desperately clasping your hand

               I tremble

at the thought

               of letting go;

watching, as the life drains,

               from your eyes.


(Verse)


01/1...

Eternal Love

...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)...

A Caress

...


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
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Emotions

...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 ...

Pic Motifs - Visual 3

...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...

Shakespeare and Iphones

...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 pagean...

The Winner Is Me

...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...

That Pack

...
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~...

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