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Date PostedPoemTitle# ViewsForm  
06/15/202550 Blank verse
05/27/2025129 Rhyme
05/04/2025192 Rhyme
04/14/2025310 Blank verse
04/13/2025334 Rhyme
03/24/2025265 Free verse
03/18/2025233 Rhyme
03/07/2025313 Rhyme
03/05/2025272 Rhyme
02/11/2025139 Rhyme
02/10/2025239 Quatrain
01/25/2025212 Villanelle
12/26/2024273 Rhyme
12/17/2024460 Rhyme
12/12/2024227 Rhyme
10/13/2024159 Rhyme
09/25/2024161 Rhyme
09/14/2024120 Than-Bauk
08/29/2024227 Tautogram
07/29/2024247 Rhyme
07/28/2024278 Rhyme
07/12/2024194 Quatrain
07/10/2024104 Rhyme
07/03/2024135 Rhyme
07/02/2024226 Rhyme
06/24/2024203 Cinquain
06/23/2024334 Quatrain
06/23/2024310 Rhyme
06/15/2024194 Blank verse
06/04/2024296 Rhyme
06/02/2024481 Sonnet
05/28/2024266 Rhyme
05/21/2024247 Light Verse
05/11/20242118 Tautogram
05/08/2024389 Haiku
04/20/2024334 Couplet
04/12/2024151 Cinquain
04/06/2024347 Alexandrine
04/02/2024256 Haiku
03/24/2024263 Rispetto
03/20/2024237 Couplet
03/18/2024249 Ottava rima
03/12/2024172 Haiku
03/07/2024284 Ottava rima
02/29/2024306 Couplet
02/28/2024384 Haiku
02/26/2024262 Couplet
02/25/2024185 Etheree
02/22/2024302 Rhyme
02/22/2024282 Rhyme
02/21/2024402 Blank verse

Quotes

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Quote Left "I [refill] my pen [with] the blackest [dye], because I'm not afraid of falling into my ink". Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote Right
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Quote Left We have been gifted with unique abilities, you and I, and our circumstances have called us back into service because only we are able to meet them. – Dan ‘Doc’ Thomas Quote Right
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Quote Left “I think you were born for this time and place. You can call it fate or Divine Providence, but you were born for this. Sometimes I think our lives were predestined to go down a certain path. Oh, we can choose the good or the bad along the way, but ultimately, perhaps we are predestined for things beyond our control. It is not acurse, but a gift, to be embraced and used in the right way.” - Dan "Doc" Thomas, The Rushing Tide Quote Right
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Quote Left Do not be afraid; our fate cannot be taken from us; it is a gift. ? Dante Alighieri Quote Right
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Quote Left The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law. ? Aristotle Quote Right
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Quote Left Through the strait pass of suffering— The Martyrs—even—trod. Their feet—upon Temptations— Their faces—upon God— A stately—shriven—Company— Convulsion—playing round— Harmless—as streaks of Meteor— Upon a Planet's Bond— Their faith—the everlasting troth— Their Expectation—fair— The Needle—to the North Degree— Wades—so—thro' polar Air! --Emily Dickinson Quote Right
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Quote Left “Law and order is a job for all of us. If we shirk it long enough we will have anarchy, and all we’ve built will be destroyed.” William Blackstone Quote Right
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Quote Left "The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him." ? G.K. Chesterton Quote Right
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Quote Left With our backs to the wall and believing in the justice of our cause, each one of us must fight on to the end. -- General Sir Douglas Haig Quote Right
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Quote Left I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.—William Tecumseh Sherman Quote Right
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Quote Left Mankind can but stand up stoutly to the monsters in his own heart and without, and with the aid of God he may yet triumph. —Robert E. Howard Quote Right
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Quote Left The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable.--Sun Tzu? Quote Right
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Quote Left "Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." ? Napoleon Bonaparte Quote Right
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Quote Left I believe in elves and giants. I believe that fairy tales are nothing more than news reports of what once happened.—Sondra Locke? Quote Right
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Quote Left By failing to prepare you are preparing to fail. --- Benjamin Franklin Quote Right
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Quote Left Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers,?but to be fearless in facing them. -- Rabindranath Tagore Quote Right
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Quote Left Only the dead are brave. The rest of us do what we must regardless of our fear. — Doc Thomas Quote Right
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Quote Left A hero is somebody who is selfless, who is generous in spirit, who just tries to give back as much as possible and help people. A hero to me is someone who saves people and who really deeply cares. – Debi Mazar Quote Right
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Quote Left A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom. – Bob Dylan Quote Right
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Quote Left The law, which restrains a man from doing mischief to his fellow citizens, though it diminishes the natural, increases the civil liberty of mankind. –William Blackstone Quote Right
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Quote Left At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. -- Aristotle Quote Right
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Quote Left Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it. – Augustine of Hippo Quote Right
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Quote Left There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property. – William Blackstone Quote Right
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Quote Left The trouble with conspiracies is that they rot internally. ? Robert A. Heinlein Quote Right
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Quote Left Nothing concentrates the military mind so much as the discovery that you have walked into an ambush. – Thomas Packenham Quote Right
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Quote Left Purple Haze all around Don’t know if I’m coming up or down Am I happy or in misery? Whatever it is, that girl put a spell on me. -- Jimi Hendrix Quote Right
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Quote Left There can be no prosperity without law and order. – President Donald Trump Quote Right
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Quote Left See how she leans her cheek upon her hand. O, that I were a glove upon that hand That I might touch that cheek! ? William Shakespeare Quote Right
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Quote Left Cruel with guilt, and daring with despair, the midnight murderer bursts the faithless bar; invades the sacred hour of silent rest and leaves, unseen, a dagger in your breast. --Samuel Johnson Quote Right
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Quote Left As George Orwell pointed out, people sleep peacefully in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. -- Richard Grenier Quote Right
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Short Stories

TitleCategories
The Pretender fantasy, macabre, war,
Ayden and Aoibhinn fantasy, love, romantic,
Gunnar and Eimear fantasy, love, war,
The Valley of Katari fantasy, scary, thriller,
The Other Side of Nowhere fantasy, mystery, scary, science fiction, thriller,
In the Jaws of the Ice Worm fantasy, science fiction, thriller,
Antebellum Wedding fantasy, ghost, mystery,
Under a Pale Red Moon ghost, mystery, thriller,
Conall Moran crime, mystery, romantic, science fiction,
Black Lake fantasy, science fiction, thriller,
The Star crime, science fiction,
Murder On the Mars Terraformer crime, mystery, science fiction, thriller,

Book: Reflection on the Important Things