Best 20 Words Poems


Premium Member 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 words used
20th December 2015

Premium Member 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

Premium Member When You Smile

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


These Eyes

These wondrous eyes draw me in
I can feel the desert on my skin
And almost touch where time begins


Howard Tunick  

"Through Your Eyes"

12 June 2015

Visual 3

20 Words

Intricate Tsunami

Muddy Brown

Scarecrow Scattered

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Echoes Abstract

Metal Mouth

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Fire Hunger

Liquid Passion

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Ashy Sorrow

Tattered Faith

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Hopeful Breath

Stubborn Love


**Prompt: Describe yourself in exactly 20 words
    Title credit to Conor Jordan

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 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.


Shakespeare and Iphones

I checked out 20 words we owe to William Shakespeare and included them in this ditty about teenagers. The Bard is emboldened herein :

Bedazzled by new-fangled, mutitudinous 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.

Independent Soul

Independent Soul

I was really a rather independent soul
Which on me many times took its toll
And ended up being worn out by it
Trying to find out where I should fit.

If by grace of God I did what was good
All of the wrong could have withstood
Then listened to birds as they would sing
Saying God has the answer for everything.

When upon the seas waves may be rough
How can we tell when enough is enough?
So will pray to God for His glorious aid
Before into past I finally do fade.

Found my life to be over and complete
If another performance I were to repeat
No, I am not and to heaven will go
While rest of you remain on earth below.

Idea: Out of all the poems which I have written,
which 20 words do I use the most listed from
most used to the lesser ones in order.

Jim Horn
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Love's Kisses and Music

Love's Kisses And Music 

Blending midsummer air 
drifting softly 
in the sapphire 
twilight clouds 
where the beauty of 
love's kisses 
and music 
is real. 


Erich J.Goller 
Copyright 9.27.10 




This poems form is Poetry In Motion (PIM) 
20 words, maximum,any subject,rhming optional.

Daily

Birds roost; the sun sets,
The day ends and sleeps,
The moon up high,
It lights the sky; stars peep.

Written By Mandy Tams
Entry for David Williams Twenty/Twenty
Used 20 words and 20 syllables

Premium Member 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~
Contest: Something With Great Impact
Sponsor: Nette Onclaud
Theme: Pack - 20 Words
Judged: 12/20/2015

Premium Member I Am Not a Quitter

I was told to "Pack it in."

"No!" I am not a quitter.

I never give up until I win.




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20 Words
Lin Lane -December 18th 2015
Something With Great Impact
Contest Sponsor-Nette
© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member 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

Brevity Poems 2

(More Brevity Poems, 50 words or less)

Unknown (22 words)

Hidden in secrecy, Shrouding the truth
Showing little, Unable to sleuth
Reasons unknown, Motives unclear
Open to none, All out of fear.


Sliding doors (16 words)

I saw her look
from across the station
I ran,
the doors closed,
and she's gone


Hand Made (36 Words)

Molded to imagination
Lacks form on its own
Purpose lies in art and function
Not on one alone
Hands and eyes work together
Creating something new
Finished now and on a shelf
For everyone to view


Victory (20 words)

Veni vidi vici
Proclaim the spoils of war
Soldiers flood the fields
With guns out front
Planes and tanks galore


The Dark of Night (Cinqain)

Night
Calm, mysterious
Blankets the world
Time of relaxed reflection
Darkness


Secret (25 words)

Locked in a vault behind the mind’s eye.
Hidden from the world in order to deny.
A slip of the tongue... it’s gone... you sigh…


Bank Robbery (14 words)

Sweat on his brow 
Revolver in hand
She relinquishes the bag
Now he flees


Video Phone (18 words)

The perfect crime
So it seemed
But unbeknownst
At the scene
Someone caught it 
On their cellphone screen


Camping (20 words)

Crisp Mountain air
Snuggled together in a microfiber bag
An enclosed zippered fortress
Protected from the elements
Communing with Nature


The Sun (10 words)

Night and day
Create illusion.
Masking truth of
Eternal sunshine.


Clothed in Ink (14 words)

Fish scales and flowers,
A saturated canvas.
Naked yet hidden
Under ink master’s design.


Untold No More (45 words)

Floodgates open.
Pouring forth a tale
Of mystery 
And lessons learned.

A tale of caution
For open minds
To be soaked up 
Like a sponge.

The release creates 
Momentary ecstasy.
It escapes the lips,
Lifting a great weight.

Now the story will be passed on.

Premium Member 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)

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