Short 20 Words Poems

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


posted on March 12, 2025...

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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...

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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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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...

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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...

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 With three aces
in my hand,
I raise the stakes
looking dumb under bloody lights--
packing a Hold- Em win!



Something With Impact Contest
Franco Gonza---12.20.2015
20 words...

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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...

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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 tribe...

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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...

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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...

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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 do it with feeling
poetry contest...

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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...

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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 PICTURES (B - 20 words) sponsored by LISA YY  -  RANKED 3RD...

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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...

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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
Do it with feeling poetry contest, Sponsored by: Line Gauthier 
January 14, 2021
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Desperately clasping your hand

               I tremble

at the thought

               of letting go;

watching, as the life drains,

               from your eyes.


(Verse)


01/14/2021


20-word max - do it with feeling Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Line Gauthier
(20 words)...

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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 Feeling Poetry Contest

Sponsor : Line Gauthier

Twenty Words verified by Poetry Soup Syllable Counter And Grammar Checker...

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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
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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....

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Emotive Urge


     Emotive urge surges
   
                 either to converge  on obsession

                          or to diverge through lamentation
 
                                         or runs parallel with confusion.


    01/15/2i


    '20 Words- Max Do it with feeling    Contest by Line Gauthier....

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BREAKING MY HEART IN PIECES

                        Surreal, unconceivable, unbelievable!!!
                                Twenty family members so
                                sick with Covid, two critical.
                              Draining, mentally exhausting,
                               breaking my heart in pieces.




1/15/21   Line Gauthier
20-Words max - do it  with feeling contest...

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