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1. Post Your Limericks Here in this Thread

   By Tinker, May 12, 2023
   • 3 replies
   • 607 views
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   • Tinker
   • February 17

2. Haiku Fridays 1 2

   By RHommel, August 20, 2010   

   • haiku
   • silliness
   • (and 4 more)

     Tagged with:

     • haiku
     • silliness
     • morning
     • food
     • weather
     • fitness
   • 94 replies
   • 15.8k views
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   • Tinker
   • February 17

3. Today is . . . . .

   By Tinker, July 2, 2023
   • 8 replies
   • 419 views
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   • Tinker
   • December 28, 2023

4. Sentences that make no sense! 1 2

   By rumisong, May 28, 2009
   • 70 replies
   • 59.3k views
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   • T llDeac
   • November 1, 2023

5. The Coast, Part III: Sunday Afternoon

   By tonyv, December 15, 2019
   • 4 replies
   • 711 views
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   • tonyv
   • June 11, 2023

6. Fire Next Time

   By Tinker, June 8, 2023   

   • 8 lines
   • isolation
   • (and 1 more)

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     • 8 lines
     • isolation
     • alone
   • 0 replies
   • 291 views
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   • Tinker
   • June 8, 2023

7. What to Do About Molly?

   By Tinker, June 8, 2023   

   • briolette
   • cats
   • (and 1 more)

     Tagged with:

     • briolette
     • cats
     • animals
   • 0 replies
   • 287 views
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   • Tinker
   • June 8, 2023

8. Poems from random prompts

   By Tinker, March 8, 2022   

   • ekphrastic
   • nature
   • (and 5 more)

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     • ekphrastic
     • nature
     • place
     • writing about writing
     • loss
     • spiritual
     • relationship
   • 7 replies
   • 627 views
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   • Tinker
   • May 16, 2023

9. A Poem in Eight lines, . Practice Here

   By Tinker, September 13, 2022   

   • silliness
   • nature
   • (and 11 more)

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     • silliness
     • nature
     • childhood memories
     • ambahan
     • oriental octet
     • ekphrastic
     • today is
     • home
     • global warming
     • place
     • health
     • aging
     • 8 lines
   • 27 replies
   • 981 views
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   • Tinker
   • May 12, 2023

10. Colorful Nonsense

    By Tinker, March 21, 2023
    • 1 reply
    • 398 views
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    • Tinker
    • April 3, 2023

11. Verse Form Practice

    By Tinker, October 25, 2019   

    • compound word verse
    • aquarian
    • (and 5 more)

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      • compound word verse
      • aquarian
      • tanaga
      • tableau
      • odquain
      • bradys touch
      • tripadi
    • 34 replies
    • 7.3k views
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    • badger11
    • January 15, 2023

12. World Limerick Day Today Thursday May 14, 2022 Join me?

    By Tinker, May 12, 2022
    • 2 replies
    • 592 views
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    • Tinker
    • August 10, 2022

13. Recent Obsession Johnny Depp vs Amber Heard Defamation Trial

    By Tinker, May 2, 2022
    • 3 replies
    • 865 views
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    • tonyv
    • May 8, 2022

14. February is Haiku Month

    By Tinker, February 2, 2022   

    • today is
    • haiku
    • (and 8 more)

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      • today is
      • haiku
      • celebration
      • nature
      • garden
      • politics
      • war
      • loss
      • cats
      • bureacracy
    • 28 replies
    • 881 views
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    • Tinker
    • March 1, 2022

15. chitrakavi Chitrakavi: Picture-Verse

    By gurunAthan, January 27, 2021   

    • picture-verse
    • arrow-bind
    • 1 reply
    • 946 views
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    • Tinker
    • October 28, 2021

16. Morning Poems

    By Tinker, May 22, 2021   

    • morning
    • nature
    • (and 2 more)

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      • morning
      • nature
      • home
      • coffee
    • 3 replies
    • 834 views
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    • Tinker
    • May 25, 2021

17. Saturday

    By Tinker, April 3, 2021
    • 0 replies
    • 831 views
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    • Tinker
    • April 3, 2021

18. Tinker's Poetic Forms: Variant-rhymed Quatrain 

    By gurunAthan, February 3, 2021
    • 0 replies
    • 788 views
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    • gurunAthan
    • February 3, 2021

19. Tinker's Poetic Forms: Envelope Quatrain 

    By gurunAthan, January 9, 2021
    • 0 replies
    • 843 views
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    • gurunAthan
    • January 9, 2021

20. Tinker's Poetic Forms: Epitaph Quatrain

    By gurunAthan, January 2, 2021
    • 0 replies
    • 489 views
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    • gurunAthan
    • January 2, 2021

21. Tinker's Poetic Forms: Epirgram Quatrain 

    By gurunAthan, December 29, 2020
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    • 563 views
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    • gurunAthan
    • December 29, 2020

22. Tinker's Poetic Forms: Monorhyme Quatrain

    By gurunAthan, December 16, 2020
    • 0 replies
    • 715 views
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    • gurunAthan
    • December 16, 2020

23. Tinker's Poetic Forms: Tetrastich

    By gurunAthan, December 8, 2020
    • 2 replies
    • 1k views
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    • gurunAthan
    • December 15, 2020

24. Poetry Prompts

    By tonyv, May 28, 2009
    • 17 replies
    • 4.7k views
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    • gurunAthan
    • December 8, 2020

25. Tinker's Poetic Forms: Tercet

    By gurunAthan, November 30, 2020
    • 0 replies
    • 743 views
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    • gurunAthan
    • November 30, 2020

26. Tinkering with Tinker's Poetic Forms: Couplet

    By gurunAthan, November 27, 2020
    • 2 replies
    • 779 views
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    • tonyv
    • November 29, 2020

27. Metaphor

    By Tinker, May 13, 2020
    • 4 replies
    • 1.6k views
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    • Tinker
    • June 20, 2020

28. Try a Verse Form from Southeast Asia - Here is a contest for fun.

    By Tinker, May 3, 2020
    • 1 reply
    • 619 views
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    • jakecaller
    • May 4, 2020

29. Let's Have Some Fun Write a CoronaSonnet

    By Tinker, April 22, 2020
    • 3 replies
    • 806 views
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    • Tinker
    • April 27, 2020

30. Weekly Poem Challenge 1 2 3 4 5

    By Tinker, December 24, 2017   

    • winter
    • christmas
    • (and 20 more)

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      • winter
      • christmas
      • politics
      • business
      • morning
      • acrostic
      • kwansaba
      • limerick
      • love
      • war
      • seasons
      • fall
      • words
      • political
      • humor
      • hadron
      • sin
      • fire
      • weather
      • food
      • place
      • childhood memory
    • 203 replies
    • 29.9k views
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    • bob
    • April 21, 2020

31. Blogging with haiku

    By Tinker, March 14, 2020
    • 34 replies
    • 4.9k views
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    • Tinker
    • April 9, 2020

32. 24 Syllable Challenge

    By Tinker, May 18, 2019
    • 23 replies
    • 1.7k views
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    • Tinker
    • February 11, 2020

33. The Coast

    By tonyv, November 30, 2019
    • 25 replies
    • 1.2k views
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    • Tinker
    • December 23, 2019

34. That Time of Year - Projacking The Pasture

    By Tinker, December 12, 2019
    • 3 replies
    • 561 views
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    • tonyv
    • December 22, 2019

35. The Coast, Part II: The Waterside Lounge

    By tonyv, December 6, 2019
    • 26 replies
    • 1.1k views
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    • A. Baez
    • December 12, 2019

36. Invitation Received From "The Tangled Branch" re "National Poetry Month"

    By tonyv, March 30, 2019   

    • us national poetry month
    • 8 replies
    • 1.1k views
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    • tonyv
    • May 6, 2019

37. 2019 April is National Poetry Month

    By Tinker, March 27, 2019   

    • us national poetry month
    • 23 replies
    • 3.4k views
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    • Tinker
    • April 24, 2019

38. Time to Write a Poem

    By Tinker, April 2, 2018   

    • us national poetry month
    • veteran
    • (and 11 more)

      Tagged with:

      • us national poetry month
      • veteran
      • aging
      • caregiver
      • writing about writing
      • nature
      • today is
      • acrostic
      • star sevlin
      • than bauk
      • food
      • political
      • history
    • 26 replies
    • 4.6k views
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    • Tinker
    • April 30, 2018

39. Sonnet challenge

    By badger11, March 9, 2016
    • 34 replies
    • 2.3k views
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    • badger11
    • May 2, 2016

40. Pregunta

    By Tinker, March 30, 2013   

    • pregunta
    • question
    • (and 2 more)

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      • pregunta
      • question
      • humor
      • collaboration
    • 3 replies
    • 3.8k views
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    • Frank E Gibbard
    • March 15, 2014

41. Charlie Sheen poetry...

    By fdelano, March 12, 2011
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    • fdelano
    • March 12, 2011

42. I'm Hungry, Feed Me a food Poem

    By Tinker, September 7, 2010
    • 4 replies
    • 5.8k views
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    • Tinker
    • March 1, 2011

43. Valenthaiku

    By waxwings, February 21, 2011
    • 0 replies
    • 1.5k views
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    • waxwings
    • February 21, 2011

44. 12.05.08 -- Rim

    By tonyv, May 28, 2009
    • 13 replies
    • 4.1k views
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    • Tinker
    • November 16, 2010

45. HAIKU CHALLENGE 1 2

    By goldenlangur, May 28, 2009
    • 88 replies
    • 24.4k views
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    • rumisong
    • November 6, 2010

46. a contradictory pleasure of our main content

    By rumisong, September 18, 2010
    • 2 replies
    • 1.7k views
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    • rumisong
    • September 19, 2010

47. Renga anyone?

    By Tinker, May 28, 2009
    • 6 replies
    • 2.5k views
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    • goldenlangur
    • January 11, 2010

48. No Method

    By dr_con, October 1, 2009
    • 2 replies
    • 2k views
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    • Tinker
    • January 9, 2010

49. Fire and Ice (Diamond Poem)

    By tonyv, May 28, 2009
    • 1 reply
    • 5k views
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    • Aleksandra
    • May 28, 2009

50. TANKA CHALLENGE 1 2

    By Aleksandra, May 28, 2009
    • 62 replies
    • 28.2k views
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    • goldenlangur
    • May 28, 2009