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...
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Categories:
twenty words, art, care, character, death,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
How Do I Love Thee, Jan Allison
...I wish I spoke in fancy English tone,
And not this southern-bred American;
So more politely I could pick a bone,
When snooty judgments come from Isle of Man;
I wish existed ways to turn back tim...
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Categories:
twenty words, friend,
Form: Sonnet
Time Flies
...Oh me! Oh my!
How time does fly,
Like a jet through the sky.
It makes me want to cry.
written by Kim Merryman 2/25/12
for David Williams Twenty words/Twenty syllable contest...
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Categories:
twenty words, time,
Form: Monorhyme
Twenty Words
...Twenty, twenty's hard to do
Just one long line and you are through
With no words left for your review
mike dailey
for the 20/20 contest...
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Categories:
twenty words, on writing and words,
Form: Rhyme
Twenty Words
...Though contests may pique you,
Judges critique you.
Challenges push you;
Naysayers shush you.
Rhythms confine you;
Poems define you.
Ilene Bauer
for David Williams' Twenty-Twenty Contest...
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Categories:
twenty words, on writing and words,
Form: Rhyme
Loneliness
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I sit on my own,
a cat on my knee,
and wait for the 'phone
- in case it's for me.
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For David Williams 'Twenty (words)/Twenty (syllables)' Contest by Charles Clive....
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Categories:
twenty words, sad,
Form: Verse
Nursery Rhyme
...Twenty words from Mama
I find easy to ignore.
One word from my daddy
And he need say no more!
By Joyce Johnson for contest "Twenty/Twenty" lWon 7th...
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Categories:
twenty words, family,
Form: Rhyme