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"..They went with songs to the battle, they were young, Straight of limb, true of eye,..." 4 Wwcd May 2018 May 2018 2 3261
"A Bad Trip" 0 orangecrush Jan 2026 Jan 2026 2 698
"Decent". 1 VulgarPoet May 2016 May 2016 2 2286
"Hope" is the thing with feathers - BY EMILY DICKINSON 5 elleng May 2022 Jun 2022 5 2835
"In Flanders Fields" 0 elleng Nov 2025 Nov 2025 10 810
"Juice" 0 Eleanors38 May 2016 May 2016 1 2994
"Just a suggestion---" 4 Atticus Jan 2023 Mar 2023 8 4677
"ME AND I" 2 cornball 24 Nov 2024 Nov 2024 6 1502
"October" 0 bif Oct 2025 Oct 2025 1 642
"Poems to Learn by Heart" by Caroline Kennedy 2 Petrushka Apr 2013 Apr 2013 1 2824
"Sestina: Like" --- by A. E. Stallings 0 Petrushka May 2013 May 2013 1 4563
"Stopping By The Woods On A Snowy Evening" 5 elleng Oct 2021 Jul 2023 10 7121
"The Good News" by Thich Nhat Hanh 0 littlemissmartypants Jan 2022 Jan 2022 8 2071
"The Road Not Taken" 0 DemoTex Oct 2018 Oct 2018 3 2469
"The Second Coming" - William Butler Yeats 9 orangecrush Oct 2017 Oct 2017 5 5601
"What Kind of Times are These" 0 handmade34 Apr 2020 Apr 2020 0 2042
$10,000 Rattle Poetry Prize --- deadline July 15th 0 Petrushka Jul 2017 Jul 2017 0 2646
🥁Join the Band🥁 0 littlemissmartypants Mar 26 Mar 26 2 406
죽창가 Bamboo Spear Song 7 soryang Aug 2021 Aug 2021 2 3777
"Going Home" --- a poem by Leonard Cohen (text & audio) 0 Petrushka Aug 2012 Aug 2012 0 2546
"Keep Calm" --- a poem for International Women's Day 0 Petrushka Mar 2013 Mar 2013 1 2296
"The Trusting Heart" by Dorothy Parker 0 elleng Mar 2014 Mar 2014 2 8955
'In Flanders Fields' 🥀 3 sprinkleeninow May 2022 May 2022 4 2110
'Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird' by Wallace Stevens 2 panader0 Jun 2022 Jun 2022 2 2462
'Yesterday a missile hit. Tonight, we have poetry': the writers drawing crowds on Ukraine's frontlines 0 cbabe Nov 2024 Nov 2024 2 1073
... 2 Harker Nov 2020 Nov 2020 1 1424
... 5 Harker Dec 2020 Dec 2020 1 2618
... 0 Harker Dec 2020 Dec 2020 0 1385
... 5 Harker Jan 2021 Jan 2021 4 1981
... 4 Harker Jan 2021 Jan 2021 5 1749

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... 4 Harker Dec 2021 Jan 2022 2 2323
... 0 Harker Nov 2022 Nov 2022 3 1857
... 6 Harker Oct 2022 Oct 2022 2 3059
... 4 Harker May 2021 May 2021 2 2141
... 0 Harker Jun 2021 Jun 2021 0 1965
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... 1 Harker Mar 2022 Mar 2022 3 2378
... 2 Harker Mar 2022 Mar 2022 2 2760
... 0 Harker Feb 2023 Feb 2023 0 2186
.com 0 The Madcap Jan 2025 Jan 2025 1 1137
1/13/21 to 1/26/21. 4 byronius Jan 2021 Jan 2021 3 2636
100 Year Storm 9 Tucker08087 Aug 2022 Aug 2022 3 3986
102220WednesdayThroughSunday 2 byronius Nov 2020 Nov 2020 2 1675
1st annual Scalia dissents poetry contest 0 Petrushka Jul 2015 Jul 2015 2 2895
2 spoken poems by mrs. r ---> 0 Petrushka Aug 2012 Aug 2012 0 2358
2015 X.J. Kennedy Parody Contest 4 Petrushka Aug 2015 Feb 2016 0 3413
365 Christmas Haikus 0 YoshidaYui Dec 2022 Dec 2022 2 2147
4/28 to 5/6. 0 byronius May 2021 May 2021 2 1479
5.18 Memorial Poem- Mudeung Mountain 0 soryang May 2022 May 2022 0 1719
50 unseen Rudyard Kipling poems discovered 0 Petrushka Mar 2013 Mar 2013 1 2389
A big bad bull whipped me down': cowboy poetry, old art form of the US west, lassos a new generation 1 cbabe Jan 2026 Jan 2026 1 828
A bit later... 4 Harker Nov 2020 Nov 2020 3 1953

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a blank canvass 0 Godot51 Jun 2025 Jun 2025 0 798
a broken heart 0 Godot51 Sep 2025 Sep 2025 1 783
a broken heart 0 Godot51 Oct 2025 Oct 2025 0 675
a cabinetmaker's thoughts 0 Godot51 Jul 2025 Jul 2025 1 766
A canvas 0 bif Jun 2025 Jun 2025 0 825
a carpenter fixes a broken heart 0 Godot51 Dec 2025 Dec 2025 1 802
A Christmas Hymn - Richard Wilbur 0 Tomconroy Dec 2021 Dec 2021 1 1702
a definition of time 0 Godot51 Sep 2025 Sep 2025 2 940
A Dream 0 The Madcap Dec 2024 Dec 2024 2 1113
a dying mind 0 Godot51 Sep 2025 Sep 2025 1 717
A Farewell to Arms 0 Celerity Oct 2020 Oct 2020 1 1188
a forgiving god 0 Godot51 Sep 2025 Sep 2025 0 1372
A good old-fashioned marriage equality limericking bee. 0 Petrushka Jul 2013 Jul 2013 1 2088
A Haiku for bird feeders: 1 Atticus Jan 2023 Jan 2023 6 5637
a heart is still beating 0 Godot51 Sep 2025 Sep 2025 0 634
a kiss 0 Godot51 Apr 7 Apr 7 1 367
A Lament 1 The Madcap Aug 2025 Aug 2025 1 719
a life of lust 0 Godot51 Sunday Sunday 0 224
a litany of the dead 0 Godot51 Sep 2025 Sep 2025 2 1111
A live performance I did in 1995 1 Koch Ebola May 2017 May 2017 3 4851
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