by 74 members Short form poetry. Anything with 4 or less lines with 20 or fewer words. Many other types of short form poetry fit this criteria and are welcome; for example, haiku. 4 lines with 5 words in each line, or simply 4 or less lines with 20 words total. This group is geared towards honing the skills of this form so that you may then seek to get your 4+20 poems published in the literary magazine "Four and Twenty." The magazine regularly publishes poets who take on the form and send them submissions. Here's the link: http://4and20poetry.com/submissions/ ; give it a try!
My poem warms my nights like a silver moon, like fireflies on the trees; fantasy is what I longed, constructed feelings, somehow are unexplained, like bubbles of morning air, touch my skins.
It's not how I intertwine my heart all of the sudden, but how our language diverged; beautifully spoken, and when my mind erects, so slow, for real that's when I ******* words suitable for her.
forgive everyone the greatest teachers often inflict the most pain
small cricket sings in clothes dryer laundry can wait
four leaf clover pressed in dictionary dried up good luck
let me just say that slavish devotion to traditional 5-7-5 form is not a golden rule. my teacher's opinion was these attempts (in english) are often awkward, reaching for spare syllables that take away from the beauty of the poem. i believe the purity of the image transcends the number of syllables.
Judge me, I am weak, and could never be the best, judge me, tell me, I am naive, fool, everything that could hurt my feelings, judge me, in order for me to know, that I am better than you.