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06/16/2025212 Rhyme
05/20/2025286 Rhyme
05/17/2025294 Rhyme
05/16/2025257 Other
05/09/2025310 Rhyme
04/03/2025518 Monoku
04/03/2025315 Other
03/26/2025610 Couplet
03/24/2025402 Other
03/23/2025256 Rhyme
03/20/2025393 Rhyme
03/15/2025440 Limerick
03/06/2025527 Rhyme
02/17/2025421 Quatrain
02/16/2025383 Rhyme
02/09/2025469 Rhyme
02/06/2025281 Rhyme
02/05/2025205 Rhyme
02/03/2025360 Light Verse
02/01/2025351 Rhyme
01/31/2025285 Limerick
01/22/2025348 Free verse
01/19/2025292 Monoku
01/18/2025421 Rhyme
01/16/2025368 Free verse
01/09/2025553 Rhyme
01/07/2025295 Rhyme
01/05/2025313 Monoku
01/01/2025371 Prose
12/31/2024327 Rhyme
12/28/2024304 Rhyme
12/24/2024647 Rhyme
12/22/2024248 Free verse
12/13/2024879 Limerick
12/10/2024384 Verse
12/08/2024495 Limerick
12/06/2024317 Rhyme
12/03/2024290 Verse
12/02/2024266 Rhyme
12/01/2024322 Rhyme
11/30/2024344 Verse
11/26/2024424 Prose
11/24/2024298 Rhyme
11/23/2024353 Rhyme
11/21/2024240 Rhyme
11/19/2024730 Limerick
11/17/2024412 Rhyme
11/17/2024299 Rhyme
11/15/2024316 Free verse
11/12/20241141 Rhyme
11/11/2024219 Rhyme
11/09/2024357 Rhyme
11/06/2024502 Monoku
11/01/2024435 Limerick
10/30/2024377 Rhyme
10/29/2024294 Rhyme
10/28/2024458 Rhyme
10/26/2024391 Limerick
10/19/2024604 Rhyme
10/17/2024276 Rhyme
10/17/2024300 Limerick
10/14/2024245 Rhyme
10/12/2024139 Rhyme
10/11/2024278 Rhyme
10/10/2024439 Rhyme
10/08/2024401 Limerick
10/07/2024226 Rhyme
10/06/2024226 Rhyme
10/06/2024206 Rhyme
10/05/2024367 Limerick
10/05/2024202 Rhyme
10/04/2024249 Epitaph
10/02/2024130 Rhyme
09/30/2024169 Rhyme
09/30/2024185 Prose
09/29/2024167 Limerick
09/28/2024199 Rhyme
09/27/2024138 Rhyme
09/26/2024315 Rhyme
09/23/2024592 Haiku
09/21/2024190 Rhyme
09/15/2024247 Rhyme
09/14/2024384 Rhyme
09/11/2024227 Limerick
09/09/2024327 Acrostic
09/08/2024288 Rhyme
09/07/2024160 Rhyme
09/05/2024239 Rhyme
09/04/2024229 Rhyme
09/03/2024182 Free verse
09/01/2024153 Rhyme
08/30/2024393 Limerick
08/29/2024177 Free verse
08/28/2024161 Rhyme
08/28/2024177 Limerick
08/26/2024281 Rhyme
10/01/2023313 Verse
09/05/2023328 Rhyme
09/03/2023181 Rhyme
08/27/2023231 Rhyme
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Quote Left In poetry follow love and the pathway of truth, never let hate be your muse. Quote Right
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Quote Left Is poetry just a waste of time, a collection of words put together in rhyme. Quote Right
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Quote Left Sometimes not saying anything is the best answer, for silence can never be misquoted. Quote Right
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Quote Left Tact! Is the art of making a point, without making an enemy. Quote Right
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Quote Left Some say that dreamers are wasting their time, and to face up to reality, and not walk around blind, but dreams have no barriers, dreams have no walls, and wouldn't it be wonderful, if just one dream came true. Quote Right
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Quote Left The Sun is king over everything. Quote Right
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Quote Left Poetry Soup is becoming a war zone, the enemy is plagiarism with AI owning the throne. Quote Right
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Quote Left A politician is someone who promises the earth while living on another planet. Quote Right
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Quote Left An Illegal immigrant, is someone breaking into your home, and you paying to keep them. Quote Right
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Quote Left Love is God, religion is fiction. Quote Right
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Quote Left Humanity has lost its sanity. Quote Right
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Quote Left Donald Trump is Putin's puppet, in fact he's just a fool, he was hoping for a Nobel peace prize, but finished up with sod all. Quote Right
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Quote Left Religion is like living in the land of Oz, a land that never was. Quote Right
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Quote Left If your looking for an honest opinion ask a child. Quote Right
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Quote Left Spring is most definitely here,there's even a nut in the White House Quote Right
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Quote Left It would be a far better and fairer world, if those who held the power, weren't a bunch of self indulgent arseholes. Quote Right
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Quote Left If you want to hear the truth ask a child. Quote Right
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Quote Left I've never blocked anyone, that is not my way, for the things we say are a reflection of ourselves, so I let them ramble away. Quote Right
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Quote Left God is my spirit, God is my soul, God is the love that makes my life whole, I've no need for religion for me to believe, for religion is fiction full of lies and deceit. Quote Right
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Quote Left I believe that Adam and Eve,is where it all began, so in my eyes there's only two genders, a woman and a Man. Quote Right
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Quote Left I often talk to myself, because I'm the only one who will listen. Quote Right
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Quote Left You'll only find out what people really think of you, not by what they tell you, but by what they tell others about you. Quote Right
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Quote Left Those loved ones who have passed on we can never bring back, so remember them as they were, think of all those happy times, and all those wonderful memories you shared together, don't be sad they wouldn't want that, smile be happy for they will always live on in your heart. Quote Right
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Quote Left Life is like a jigsaw puzzle, it can fall apart in a moment, but don't give up, because the pieces still fit together, it just takes time. Quote Right
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Quote Left When you smile the world smiles with you, when you break wind your on your own. Quote Right
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Quote Left Throughout life you'll meet one person who is like no other, you can talk to this person for hours and they never get bored, you can tell this person things and they will never judge you, this person is your partner your soulmate your best friend never let them go. Quote Right
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Quote Left If you love someone put their name in a circle not a heart, because heart's can be broken, circles go on forever. Quote Right
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Quote Left Back in the day, London used to have a pub on every corner, all have been replaced by a Mosque. Quote Right
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Quote Left I wanted to prove the doubters wrong, and those who believed in me right, I'm pleased to say I succeeded in both. Quote Right
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Quote Left I always look for the best in everyone, even after seeing the worst in some. Quote Right
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