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1. Sentences that make no sense! 1 2

   By rumisong, May 28, 2009
   • 73 replies
   • 67.4k views
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   • tonyv
   • December 5, 2024

2. ice cream and onions

   By sethyboiza, November 19, 2024
   • 1 reply
   • 160 views
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   • tonyv
   • November 20, 2024

3. Haiku Fridays 1 2 3

   By RHommel, August 20, 2010   

   • haiku
   • silliness
   • (and 4 more)

     Tagged with:

     • haiku
     • silliness
     • morning
     • food
     • weather
     • fitness
   • 105 replies
   • 19.4k views
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   • Tinker
   • November 8, 2024

4. Verse Form Practice

   By Tinker, October 25, 2019   

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

     Tagged with:

     • compound word verse
     • aquarian
     • tanaga
     • tableau
     • odquain
     • bradys touch
     • tripadi
   • 47 replies
   • 11.4k views
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   • Tinker
   • August 30, 2024

5. Today is . . . . .

   By Tinker, July 2, 2023
   • 11 replies
   • 1.3k views
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   • Tinker
   • August 12, 2024

6. A Poem in Eight lines, . Practice Here

   By Tinker, September 13, 2022   

   • silliness
   • nature
   • (and 11 more)

     Tagged with:

     • silliness
     • nature
     • childhood memories
     • ambahan
     • oriental octet
     • ekphrastic
     • today is
     • home
     • global warming
     • place
     • health
     • aging
     • 8 lines
   • 32 replies
   • 2k views
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   • Tinker
   • August 6, 2024

7. Cheyenne Lore

   By Tinker, June 16, 2024
   • 4 replies
   • 624 views
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   • Tinker
   • June 17, 2024

8. Post Your Limericks Here in this Thread

   By Tinker, May 12, 2023
   • 3 replies
   • 1.3k views
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   • Tinker
   • February 17, 2024

9. The Coast, Part III: Sunday Afternoon

   By tonyv, December 15, 2019
   • 4 replies
   • 1.5k views
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   • tonyv
   • June 11, 2023

10. Fire Next Time

    By Tinker, June 8, 2023   

    • 8 lines
    • isolation
    • (and 1 more)

      Tagged with:

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

11. What to Do About Molly?

    By Tinker, June 8, 2023   

    • briolette
    • cats
    • (and 1 more)

      Tagged with:

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

12. Poems from random prompts

    By Tinker, March 8, 2022   

    • ekphrastic
    • nature
    • (and 5 more)

      Tagged with:

      • ekphrastic
      • nature
      • place
      • writing about writing
      • loss
      • spiritual
      • relationship
    • 7 replies
    • 1.3k views
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    • Tinker
    • May 16, 2023

13. Colorful Nonsense

    By Tinker, March 21, 2023
    • 1 reply
    • 1.1k views
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    • Tinker
    • April 3, 2023

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

    By Tinker, May 12, 2022
    • 2 replies
    • 1.2k views
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    • Tinker
    • August 10, 2022

15. Recent Obsession Johnny Depp vs Amber Heard Defamation Trial

    By Tinker, May 2, 2022
    • 3 replies
    • 1.6k views
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    • tonyv
    • May 8, 2022

16. February is Haiku Month

    By Tinker, February 2, 2022   

    • today is
    • haiku
    • (and 8 more)

      Tagged with:

      • today is
      • haiku
      • celebration
      • nature
      • garden
      • politics
      • war
      • loss
      • cats
      • bureacracy
    • 28 replies
    • 1.7k views
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    • Tinker
    • March 1, 2022

17. chitrakavi Chitrakavi: Picture-Verse

    By gurunAthan, January 27, 2021   

    • picture-verse
    • arrow-bind
    • 1 reply
    • 1.8k views
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    • Tinker
    • October 28, 2021

18. Morning Poems

    By Tinker, May 22, 2021   

    • morning
    • nature
    • (and 2 more)

      Tagged with:

      • morning
      • nature
      • home
      • coffee
    • 3 replies
    • 1.5k views
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    • Tinker
    • May 25, 2021

19. Saturday

    By Tinker, April 3, 2021
    • 0 replies
    • 1.5k views
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    • Tinker
    • April 3, 2021

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

    By gurunAthan, February 3, 2021
    • 0 replies
    • 1.5k views
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    • gurunAthan
    • February 3, 2021

21. Tinker's Poetic Forms: Envelope Quatrain 

    By gurunAthan, January 9, 2021
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    • 1.5k views
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    • gurunAthan
    • January 9, 2021

22. Tinker's Poetic Forms: Epitaph Quatrain

    By gurunAthan, January 2, 2021
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    • 1.1k views
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    • gurunAthan
    • January 2, 2021

23. Tinker's Poetic Forms: Epirgram Quatrain 

    By gurunAthan, December 29, 2020
    • 0 replies
    • 1.2k views
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    • gurunAthan
    • December 29, 2020

24. Tinker's Poetic Forms: Monorhyme Quatrain

    By gurunAthan, December 16, 2020
    • 0 replies
    • 1.4k views
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    • gurunAthan
    • December 16, 2020

25. Tinker's Poetic Forms: Tetrastich

    By gurunAthan, December 8, 2020
    • 2 replies
    • 1.7k views
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    • gurunAthan
    • December 15, 2020

26. Poetry Prompts

    By tonyv, May 28, 2009
    • 17 replies
    • 5.7k views
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    • gurunAthan
    • December 8, 2020

27. Tinker's Poetic Forms: Tercet

    By gurunAthan, November 30, 2020
    • 0 replies
    • 1.4k views
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    • gurunAthan
    • November 30, 2020

28. Tinkering with Tinker's Poetic Forms: Couplet

    By gurunAthan, November 27, 2020
    • 2 replies
    • 1.5k views
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    • tonyv
    • November 29, 2020

29. Metaphor

    By Tinker, May 13, 2020
    • 4 replies
    • 2.5k views
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    • Tinker
    • June 20, 2020

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

    By Tinker, May 3, 2020
    • 1 reply
    • 1.3k views
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    • jakecaller
    • May 4, 2020

31. Let's Have Some Fun Write a CoronaSonnet

    By Tinker, April 22, 2020
    • 3 replies
    • 1.4k views
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    • Tinker
    • April 27, 2020

32. Weekly Poem Challenge 1 2 3 4 5

    By Tinker, December 24, 2017   

    • winter
    • christmas
    • (and 20 more)

      Tagged with:

      • 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
    • 34k views
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    • bob
    • April 21, 2020

33. Blogging with haiku

    By Tinker, March 14, 2020
    • 34 replies
    • 5.6k views
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    • Tinker
    • April 9, 2020

34. 24 Syllable Challenge

    By Tinker, May 18, 2019
    • 23 replies
    • 2.5k views
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    • Tinker
    • February 11, 2020

35. The Coast

    By tonyv, November 30, 2019
    • 25 replies
    • 2k views
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    • Tinker
    • December 23, 2019

36. That Time of Year - Projacking The Pasture

    By Tinker, December 12, 2019
    • 3 replies
    • 1.2k views
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    • tonyv
    • December 22, 2019

37. The Coast, Part II: The Waterside Lounge

    By tonyv, December 6, 2019
    • 26 replies
    • 1.8k views
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    • A. Baez
    • December 12, 2019

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

    By tonyv, March 30, 2019   

    • us national poetry month
    • 8 replies
    • 1.8k views
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    • tonyv
    • May 6, 2019

39. 2019 April is National Poetry Month

    By Tinker, March 27, 2019   

    • us national poetry month
    • 23 replies
    • 4.4k views
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    • Tinker
    • April 24, 2019

40. 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
    • 5.5k views
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    • Tinker
    • April 30, 2018

41. Sonnet challenge

    By badger11, March 9, 2016
    • 34 replies
    • 3.1k views
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    • badger11
    • May 2, 2016

42. Pregunta

    By Tinker, March 30, 2013   

    • pregunta
    • question
    • (and 2 more)

      Tagged with:

      • pregunta
      • question
      • humor
      • collaboration
    • 3 replies
    • 4.8k views
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    • Frank E Gibbard
    • March 15, 2014

43. Charlie Sheen poetry...

    By fdelano, March 12, 2011
    • 0 replies
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    • fdelano
    • March 12, 2011

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

    By Tinker, September 7, 2010
    • 4 replies
    • 6.8k views
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    • Tinker
    • March 1, 2011

45. Valenthaiku

    By waxwings, February 21, 2011
    • 0 replies
    • 2.1k views
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    • waxwings
    • February 21, 2011

46. 12.05.08 -- Rim

    By tonyv, May 28, 2009
    • 13 replies
    • 4.8k views
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    • Tinker
    • November 16, 2010

47. HAIKU CHALLENGE 1 2

    By goldenlangur, May 28, 2009
    • 88 replies
    • 26k views
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    • rumisong
    • November 6, 2010

48. a contradictory pleasure of our main content

    By rumisong, September 18, 2010
    • 2 replies
    • 2.4k views
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    • rumisong
    • September 19, 2010

49. Renga anyone?

    By Tinker, May 28, 2009
    • 6 replies
    • 3.1k views
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    • goldenlangur
    • January 11, 2010

50. No Method

    By dr_con, October 1, 2009
    • 2 replies
    • 2.6k views
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    • Tinker
    • January 9, 2010