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Best True Statement Poems

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Fort Sumter
April 12, 1861 the cannons could

be heard for miles around,

the war had started,that

led both sides to a long

and hard struggle.

Why was this site

chosen to start...

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Categories: true statement, anniversary, history, warwar, war,
Form: Free verse



Funny
It’s just the aside that resides
Therein lies the (funny)
In between the (funny) lines
Find the humor in the parenthesis (funny)!
An understated (funny) thought
Is it a true...

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Categories: true statement, change, funny, joy, nonsense,
Form: Free verse
Julie Elizabeth Robbins
We met apon this very site to strangers  in a room.
Just two names apon a screen hello would lead the way.
Many will wonder but...

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Categories: true statement, dedicationlove, may,
Form: I do not know?
Titanic:The Ship of Dreams
The Sun was drowsing quietly,
Once upon a century, 
Mister Ocean calm but afraid, 
She was far but had a selected destiny. 

The ship was named...

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Categories: true statement, april, boat, death, england,
Form: Narrative
America Bless God
Give Him You

Have a clean mind, to him cast all your cares
Dramatic roles don’t be stolen by fear of how 
Revelation play it out. Of...

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Categories: true statement, christian, inspiration,
Form: Lyric



Verses On the Side of the Book
Many people swim in an empty pool and decide that pools are not fun. Is that really a true statement? Will time end? If you...

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© Greg Bell  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: true statement, adventure, angel, art, beauty,
Form: Burlesque
Unadulterated History
Unadulterated History.

In 1931, a white woman accused five Hawaiian men of rape. They were acquitted. The woman's mother showed up and demanded retribution for her...

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© Ts Lewis  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: true statement, racism,
Form: Prose Poetry
I Like You
As e.e. Cummings once said, "I like your body when it is next to mine"
and what a true statement that was he said.
I like you,
beyond...

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Categories: true statement, beautiful, deep, for her,
Form: Free verse
He
I asked him these questions, I did not believe that I would receive these types of responses. He is truly one who is, misunderstood.
He had...

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Categories: true statement, appreciation, best friend, meaningful,
Form: Narrative
Super Faded
11/8/21


Such things could not easily be duplicated
Let the truth be illuminated
Too sedated
Super faded
At times I hallucinated
And often ruminated
Woke up the next day feeling terrible or...

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Categories: true statement, dark, deep, life, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Opposites Do Attract
Opposites Attract

(Verse 1)
Every time we see each other 
We smile 
Think we been interested in each other
For a while
Everybody joking 
Saying y'all look good together...

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Categories: true statement, deep,
Form: ABC
My Brain
Sometimes I feel so accomplished
At other times I can't even think
I have a thought in my head
And it's gone with the next blink
I don't think...

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Categories: true statement, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Truth In Words
to many moments
i've sat and cried
to many hours
i've begged to die
everytime you pick me up
from the bottom to which i fall
as if it never even...

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Categories: true statement, girlfriend-boyfriend, love, teen, me,
Form: Rhyme
Uncertainity
When you gaze upon a Jackson Pollack for the first time
Instantly your mind begins to ponder
What was he thinking?
Where was he going with this?
Can you...

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© Lexi Davis  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: true statement, imaginationart, art,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Janus Face
Janus Face

Chaotic dialect set-off back-and-forth
Two contrasting characteristics 
One is proven to be duplicitous
Political backing of the other party
Now denies it
A refusal that of a true...

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© I Am Anaya  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: true statement, leadership, political,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things