Number of Words: 25
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Short lines must I carve,
Or else I shall starve;
Twenty-five words, a firm decree:
Let me fly like bees,
Chasing scents on flowers, free.
Less is best
Clearly expressed-
Purpose seemed breezy.
Wrote words to sow
Feelings I'd show.
Not “easy-peasy.”
::Nothing::
~ on the tip of my tongue ~
\but lodged in my throat/
|can't spit it out|
¥only hack it up¥
¥
ThAt
fEeLs
SoMewHaT
lEss
poEtiC
Facing a blank page
Feeling the stress
Of writing a response
To your latest verse
Have to keep it positive
What can I say?
three
squared,
plus four
also squared,
is twenty five,
which is five squared;
Pythagoras would be very pleased
with the smallest integer right angle triangle
Tough . . .
so rough!
Words must pop
please no AI slop
up to 25 words please
even fewer words, just no sleaze.
Tough . . .
and so rough!
Driving in the fog
Is like to travel
Into the unknown
We do not know where
We are going
its like the unknow
Its scary
Love—
not only a word
but a feeling in our hearts.
A flame that never dies
and a bond that never parts.
*I wrote this poem on January 22, 2024, as part of a ’30 days of poetry’ January challenge. This was day 22 and the prompt was: Challenge yourself to write a poem that is no more than 25 words long.
Thinking of Marjorie Taylor Green
Mark Twain wrote
"If you want people
To think you are an idiot
Open your mouth
And remove all doubt"
Love story in 25 words
By Moonbeam
Note: This is not a poem by WinkofHeart (aka Brett Somers)
I'm posting this poem for a friend of mine, Marianne Walther aka Moonbeam to help her share her voice with the world. Please comment on this poem encouraging her to open her own PoetrySoup account.
We talked for hours.
your eyes
turned my brain
into hot pudding.
you left me only
your voice by telephone.
then nothing......
only hot pudding.
I fear if someone looks hard
They'll see I'm broken..
My mask will fall off, my eyes will expose
My past, my heart--things unspoken..
~*~
left hand touch to excite
KISS is spark to ignite
right hand pulls us tight
heartbeats like dynamite
LOVE is pain
SEX has no refrain
~~**~~
~*~
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