Short Twenty One Poems

Short Twenty One Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Twenty One by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Twenty One by length and keyword.


Eight Oh Eight Through Eight Twenty One

Emotions poured out
Thoughts bound together and shelved
Dreams shared on paper

By Robb A. Kopp
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Form: Senryu


Premium Member Blackjack Shadorma

Here are cards Fifty-two in all. Want to win? You beat me? You need more points than I have. Twenty-one is tops.
Form: Shadorma

Premium Member The Lost Year

The Lost Year Haiku: by Tom 12/27/2020 We won't soon forget, Twenty-Twenty, the lost year. Twenty-One brings hope.
© Tom Wright  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Haiku

Premium Member Effortful Pen Adventure

My first  thought,  Haiku!
I kept writing twenty one
Feverous efforts 
Seventeen syllable try
Instead of six eight six or
Seven seven.seven more
Form: Tanka

Premium Member Stubbed Toe

I didn’t mean to stub my toe
At two I cry
At fifteen I swear
At twenty one I don’t even notice
At thirty two I wake up in a jail cell
At forty? WTF
© Cs Parker  Create an image from this poem.


Premium Member Pool At Grandmas

Pool
Happy
At grandma’s
Squeals and joy
Run to see new dog
Charlie not there
twenty-one months pure
Sadly has drowned
Hatred now
Toward the
Pool
Form: Ninette

Premium Member New Years Day One One Twenty One

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New Year’s Day One-One Twenty-One
David J Walker

One-One Twenty-One 
Exhaling Decembers air
Breathing in and 
Believing again 
In hope
instead of despair
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Words To a Blackjack Dealer

You gave me two picture cards. Together, they’re twenty points. Don’t you get twenty-one! Robert Pettit for Twenty/Twenty contest by David Williams

Simple Sydney

See simple Sydney, wherever he go's
He'll show you a trick with fingers and toes
Counting to twenty 
If that's not plenty
Make it twenty one, cross eyed on his nose!
© Pat Adams  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Limerick

Twenty One

Selecting one number's a chore
it really was hard that's for sure
        Twenty-one's the result
         'cause now you're an Adult
you can do things you didn't before!
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Heartfelt farewell

Standing tall dressed in regalia
twenty-one gun salute detonates
a lump lodged deep in my throat
combination pride sorrow and so much more



AP: Honorable Mention 2025

Rebel

Games before homework,
Going to bed after twelve,
pop before breakfast,
turns to drugs at twenty-one,
sex before marrige,
and acohol at thirteen.
Tonight rebelions unite!
© Bri Brown  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Tanka

Premium Member Marguerite

self confidence oozed out of her
she married and divorced two men before she was twenty-one
few women had that kind of confidence in the twenties
Marguerite is my grandmother

Premium Member Poem Number Twenty-One Hundred

Poem Number Twenty-One Hundred A true man of rhyme born and bred Started quite late Guess it was fate Eventually my fire needed to be fed © Jack Ellison 2015
Form: Limerick

In Defense of Objective Reality

There is a blue chicken.

(Expert farmers have attested to it being blue).

Fifteen people say it is blue.

Twenty-one people say it is white.

Does that make the chicken white?
© Barry Levy  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Narrative

After the Party

He drank a sea 

Of Caribbean Rum

Under the midnight sun

Twenty-one candles

Melted into icing on

Pineapple upside-down

Now the woman in his bed

Is a stranger and his head

Is made of woodpeckers
Form: Rhyme

Facc Data Data

top secret!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


twenty one contract clause
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violens, chellos, giutars, drums, flutes, trumpets, tambourines, tenors
alto's, bass......
Form: Ballad

Twenty-One

there are twenty-one in you 
twenty-one lives of Tara 
twenty-one magical flames 
twenty-one harmonies of love 
twenty-one erotic lights 
to painting desire by desire 
meditating on the art of glamor

Premium Member Aquarius

An Aquarius woman is described as cold and distant Have known a couple and that fits their description Once dated one When twenty-one Tried unsuccessfully to break through her resistance
Form: Limerick

Premium Member 21 Means

Twenty-one means you can have your first drink.
Not soda, milk, orange, a Roy Rogers, nor shake.
Yes, a beer, wine, whisky, martini, vodka. Just think -
Remember good strong coffee will put on the brakes.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Twenty Twenty One

2021 has just arrived,
For most of us,we have survived.
We have said goodbye to family,
To friends we will never see.
Through all the tears and sadness,
You still live in our memories.
We miss you, goodbye.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member HAPPY BIRTHDAY POETRY SOUP

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Can you believe it? Twenty-one years did swirl by~ steam of stanzas rising high, bowl warmed by old rhymes, new voices dip spoons hungrily~ soup still simmering, still sweet.
Form: Other

Super Moon

S-even twenty-one PM, 
U-nderneath the wide lane; 
P-eople watch the moon
E-ver super without pouring
R-ain.

M-irth is truly brought
O-nce the sky gives boon; 
O-n fourteenth November, 
N-ight shows the super moon.
Form: Acrostic

Premium Member a shameless risk taking gambler

a shameless bluffer
he won at poker and twenty-one
an audacious risk-taker
brazen, brave, and bold
daring to do what most would not
my grandfather-in-law, the gambler
who lost his house to a bad hand of cards in the thirties

Premium Member Fun Marathon Poetry Inspired By Edgar Allan Poe

Running after Midnight is eerie 
Passing mile twenty-one, weak and weary
All other runners finished early
A few quaint and curious are waiting
Some encouraging, some baiting
Only this and nothing more
Quoth my sore feet “Nevermore”
© Mark Toney  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

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