20 Words

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Exactly what the title says.

20 words.

No prompt.

Just use your imagination.








Please use spell check. Spelling/grammatical errors will not win.
Please no erotica or crazy typing.
Other than that, anything goes. =]






Write me something amazing.

Contest is Over

• Contest was judged on March 30, 2008
• Rewards: Gold: 300, Silver: 100, Bronze: 50, Honorable mention: 2 people
• Final notes:
  Thank you to everyone who took the time to enter.
  
  There were some very unique entries, and quite a variety of topics, which is what I was hoping for. I was very impressed with the turn out.
  
  Congratulations to the winners, it was a hard decision.
  
  [HM and finalists are in no particular order.]
  
  
  Thanks again x

Contest Winners

1. Infinity In Your Eyes

   by Glasyalabolas 10 lines, 7 comments, on Mar 25 9:10 AM 2008
   Gold trophy winner

   • Commented on by judge. [remove]
2. Perfect Pitch [silver]

   by Ithica 16 lines, 5 comments, on Mar 26 11:57 AM 2008. In Life, Personal, Thoughts
   Silver trophy winner

   • Commented on by judge. [remove]
3. Error: Unable to find finalist item 3981248, it seems to have been deleted :( [remove]
4. Falling

   Lost…
   behind your blue sky eyes,

   by ParadoxFry 5 lines, 2 comments, on Mar 26 4:43 PM 2008. In Thoghts, love, memory
   Honorable mention

   • Commented on by judge. [remove]
5. Searching for........

   My whoring heart
   For sale to the highest bidder,

   by Charity Ann 4 lines, 9 comments, on Mar 13 9:11 AM 2008
   Honorable mention

   • Commented on by judge. [remove]
6. 'queer'

   they call me queer
   but queer means odd

   by eoz 4 lines, 1 comment, on Mar 22 4:16 AM 2008. In Contest, Personal

   • Commented on by judge. [remove]
7. Pieces

   Falling to pieces each and every day Somehow you're always there

   by Kassandra Nyktos 2 lines, 2 comments, on Mar 24 1:11 PM 2008. In Thoughts, Sad, Hope, Life

   • Commented on by judge. [remove]
8. Self-Proclaimed Hypocrite

   Searching for unrequited
   harmony,

   by Jfd 7 lines, 10 comments, on Mar 3 1:42 AM 2008

   • Commented on by judge. [remove]
9. Nothing

   Shredding
   the petals,

   by silver-X-lining 9 lines, 1 comment, on Mar 26 3:39 PM 2008. In Life, Sad, Thoughts

   • Commented on by judge. [remove]

Entries [39]

• Open up

  Feelings
  (Filter)

  by Lady Australis 10 lines, 5 comments, on Mar 3 1:46 AM 2008

  • Commented on by judge.
• Rotting Root

  by U.g.l.y. 4 lines, 1 comment, on Mar 3 2:25 AM 2008. In Weird, Contest, Pain, Angry, Hate, Anger

  • Commented on by judge.
• 20 Words

  A poem containing only 20 words.

  by g-tonttu 5 lines, 4 comments, on Mar 3 4:32 AM 2008. In Life, Contest, Thoughts

  • Commented on by judge.
• Absolutely

  by Shenton 5 lines, 1 comment, on Mar 3 4:03 AM 2008

  • Commented on by judge.
• The winds that carry me

  by Lavender Butterfly 10 lines, 5 comments, on Mar 3 3:27 AM 2008. In Personal

  • Commented on by judge.
• erotic couples

  erotic couples busily

  by Zyskandar A Jaimot 9 lines, 7 comments, on Mar 3 7:37 AM 2008. In Contemporary, Contest, Angst, Life, Love, Hope

  • Commented on by judge.
• Fighting or Leaving

  What would you do if surrounded by

  by lostskylark 9 lines, 1 comment, on Mar 3 7:48 AM 2008. In Contest, Life, Thoughts

  • Commented on by judge.
• tempest

  elongated spires of a deeper
  green reach for your love as

  by carole21 3 lines, 1 comment, on Mar 3 11:15 AM 2008. In Contest

  • Commented on by judge.
• Allure

  Try as I might, your spell inescapable

  by Welcome-To-Hell 6 lines, 2 comments, on Mar 3 12:08 PM 2008. In Personal, Thoughts, Life, Love

  • Commented on by judge.
• Softly

  by Margaret Denham 8 lines, 3 comments, on Mar 3 1:44 PM 2008. In Thoughts, Love, Contest

  • Commented on by judge.
• After New York

  If you only knew him

  by Demington 17 lines, 1 comment, on Mar 4 12:39 AM 2008. In Fantasy

  • Commented on by judge.
• Doves and Lambs

  A poem about the unfairness of death

  by fantasysmurf 6 lines, 2 comments, on Mar 4 2:17 AM 2008. In Contest, Death, Pain, Depressed, Loss, Anger, Sadness, Freewrite

  • Commented on by judge.
• Baritone

  Taped up fingers, on a warm and dull

  by Dragomiloff 4 lines, 2 comments, on Mar 5 3:11 PM 2008

  • Commented on by judge.
• Finding Out On Your Own

  What to say in twenty words There is nothing you haven’t heard

  by scarlett07 8 lines, 2 comments, on Mar 11 6:48 PM 2008. In Contest, Thoughts, Society, Hope, Life

  • Commented on by judge.
• Stimulate Me.

  Carry me away.
  Melancholy dragging

  by Lotus-Mama 12 lines, 3 comments, on Mar 16 6:05 PM 2008. In Life, Love, Spiritual, Escape, Longing

  • Commented on by judge.
• -untitled...-

  by jbbrandi 3 lines, 1 comment, on Mar 22 3:11 AM 2008. In Society, War, Hopeful, Other

  • Commented on by judge.
• Caught By Cement

  Somewhere I

  by Wall Door Salad 7 lines, 3 comments, on Mar 25 2:36 PM 2008. In Contest, Contemporary, Sad, Personal

  • Commented on by judge.
• Universal Love

  flows connecting the dots

  by Dark Otter 11 lines, 4 comments, on Mar 26 6:50 AM 2008

  • Commented on by judge.
• Crossing the teens

  The orthodox boy
  resembling the days of cycle

  by Purush 4 lines, 1 comment, on Mar 26 7:48 AM 2008

  • Commented on by judge.
• Stillness

  Stillness lives inside this single blade of grass.

  by NotAMolly 5 lines, 1 comment, on Mar 26 9:17 AM 2008. In Nature, Life, Hope, Spiritual

  • Commented on by judge.
• forever (just a word)

  Forever is never long enough yet, we wish it

  by righteousme 6 lines, 5 comments, on Mar 26 10:41 AM 2008

  • Commented on by judge.
• Virtuous Truth

  She was alluringly demure, She was innocent, she was pure,

  by SchizoChic 5 lines, 2 comments, on Mar 26 11:38 AM 2008

  • Commented on by judge.
• Amnesia

  Drowning, under the dearth of flashbacks;

  by Fourthaxis 8 lines, 2 comments, on Mar 26 12:49 PM 2008. In Sadness, Life, Escape, Suicide, Contest

  • Commented on by judge.
• all in a minute

  by broken bloody angel 15 lines, 3 comments, on Mar 26 3:48 PM 2008. In sad, dark, life

  • Commented on by judge.
• jeune fille

  by inkstaind 3 lines, 3 comments, on Mar 26 3:55 PM 2008

  • Commented on by judge.
• Tempted

  Tempted is ill-fated at chase, only sparks from crash has bought,

  by kendhal22 5 lines, 16 comments, on Mar 26 4:23 PM 2008

  • Commented on by judge.
• Sleep, Wonderful Sleep

  Today presented me with a choice,
  to write a social commentary piece

  by wbiro 8 lines, 6 comments, on Mar 26 5:56 PM 2008. In Short, 20 Words, Sleep, Life

  • Commented on by judge.
• Inside

  No doors in this room.
  Radio only crackles wordlessly.

  by altatok 4 lines, 4 comments, on Mar 26 7:07 PM 2008. In Thoughts, Weird

  • Commented on by judge.
• Cosmopolitan Vogue

  by Sprite 18 lines, 1 comment, on Mar 26 11:02 PM 2008. In Contemporary, Society

  • Commented on by judge.
• [ Twenty words is all I get ]

  Twenty words is all I get With this girl I just met

  by Hoolalaha 3 lines, 1 comment, on Mar 27 2:10 AM 2008. In Contest

  • Commented on by judge.

• By me, right now

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