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by tommy
Last post
 September 7th
...See more Welcome to the Poetry Taglist This thread is an auto-updating list. The list is regularly updated by forum leaders and can be found below. Having issues? Reply below and someone will help you! Why should I join the taglist? ✔ Never miss out on sub-community check-ins, discussions or events ✔ Get tagged and notified by community leaders whenever a new relevant thread has been posted ✔ Become a more active member of the community. What do I need to do? ✅ To add yourself to this taglist, press the Post to Thread button below and write the exact words Please add me. ❌ To remove yourself from this taglist, press the Post to Thread button below and write the exact words Please remove me. ------------------------- Current taglist as of 21 Sept  (updated by @ComradeRuhi) @burningRain127 @HarmonyBlossom @HatsEatYou @HealingTalk @juliak1968 @LoveMyMoonflowers @Rareshadow666 @ShySmiler @tommy @Torean @YourCaringConfidant @mytwistedsoul @nessapressure05 @sadcat13 @MunchkinBerry @limegreenKiwi7397 @incredibleRainbows2036 @Est3lle @BelovedMe @unassumingEyes @iloveyouxx @enthusiasticBeach8170 @WondersWhispers @Redpanda2419 @peachPear727 @Fallenstar24
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When I Find My Way to You
by MooshyMushroom
Last post
 12 hours ago
...See more When I Find My Way to You Blue sky, what a relief to have from afar ‎Your smile, innocence and ignorance combined ‎She lies, her appearance is just a cover in sight  ‎He lies, pretending he doesn't see it with his own eyes  ‎ ‎Flattered heart, to sit closely by your side ‎Crowned is she like, having to walk with you in the crowd ‎What is it like, to be loved by someone with unconditional kind?  ‎She tries to comprehend, if its truly right? ‎ ‎Counting the days, one to three ‎Recalling the times you stood up differently  ‎I didn't took notice, until I realized  ‎You were once already there, when I just didn't mind  ‎ ‎Letting go of my past mistakes, I uttered to myself, I will start in a new space ‎Forgetting it like I wasn't in love before  ‎Pretending like I haven't been foolish at all ‎ ‎"Would you be the one?", I didn't mind to know  ‎How long we'll stick together, is simply unknown But what kept me moving forward wasn’t certainty What held me closely was an opportunity, I didn’t want to hold loosely But just how far can we actually be? When you seemed a lot better, just how much do I mean that, really? Are we pretenders, trying to distract ourselves? Are we running from the reality? And we’re both simply “lies” in our heads? To sit with this, is a mystery To be with you was sweet like a honey But the reality unravels itself so quickly  For the gap between you and me, was much greater, invisibly How long will you stay, to say that you love me? Once the cover is gone, would you still stick close by me? When finally, its not just the chills and the love songs When all the insecurity,  started  to play like a funeral song Tomorrow, will hold itself together God’s answer to my prayers is something I can’t yet uncover But supposed you read this  letter, and you have known I wanted you to know that I am holding on to what I still don’t know I will stay, until the next crossroads I won’t hide myself, nor move away from you I will see you again until we ever can Say my goodbye’s and hello’s like it doesn’t have no end - //MooshyMushroom//
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Hold onto Dreams
by aquaLion1074
Last post
 Tuesday
...See more Hey y'all I was feeling kinda hopeless 😞 so I decided to make a positive poem to lift my spirits. Then I realized I can share the poem and hopefully make people happy 😊. Have a wonderful day y'all ❤️ !! Y'all matter 🫶. Hold onto your dreams Because if they fade Hope is lost along the way When hope is lost, dreams aren't made... Then that life is torn away So hold onto your dreams  Cuz if they stay... More will follow  When hope displays 
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forgotten hues of blue
by cyanessence
Last post
 Sunday
...See more *forgotten hues of blue* The day wore on her searing skin, scorching any daring enough to feel its chill. Yet another wandered beneath clouds of regret, failing to feel the cleansing rains that poured. How could they ignore, she thought, the biting cold of selfish pursuit? Me, mine, I, myself, all said without regard for the ear that hears. Brutal forces tearing bread from broken hands left the giving with nothing to receive. Confused must be the community that takes bones from the dead to construct fences designed for solitude. Raving brags of how the other was had in a bad deal was the madness that made the crowds lament. As the birds flew to find somewhere less lost, an icy idea withered stillness of mind. Mystified by tangles of paths trodden by apathy, the forest offered chance to remember tomorrow. To neglect the darkness night brings sours each new dawn. To reside among the many that never shed tear dried the well of well-being. Escaping to leaves, seeking relief from blight and scorn, would be the only remedy that granted respite to mourn. Boundless sorrow, denied of attention, deprived view of bountiful colour. Witnessing the fallen writhe, absent of emotion, turned once sweet cries bitter. Within the refuge of trees that grew, perhaps, too, she would learn to grow. Sight of flying leaf is unseen when the woods that tend become walls that do not home, merely house. Under canopies of green, alone, at last, she could douse her woes with forgotten hues of blue.
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Haiku/tanka #4
by PicklesANDOcean4ever
Last post
 September 11th
...See more I just realized that my last one wasnt correct I did 5-7-7-7 loll  September 8th 2026 haiku I've been efficient  I've done so much homework (help) I still have more *cry*
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*excess "innovation"*
by cyanessence
Last post
 September 10th
...See more *excess "innovation"* Whatever happened to the basic suitcase No I do not want wheels on my suitcase No I do not want compartments in my suitcase No I do not want flair on or in my suitcase All I require from a suitcase is a basic box that I can carry Yet, that is nowhere to be found Innovation in excess leaves the basics in the dust - *sufficiency and excess* sufficiency as opposed to excess yields contentment excess is without limit sufficiency is bounded house with known boundaries can feel homely house forever under construction is never complete
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The day I figured it out.
by MooshyMushroom
Last post
 September 10th
...See more ‎The day I figured it out ‎The day when silenced shout ‎All of the glimmers of hope and rush ‎All the expectations no longer was ‎ ‎Was it a daydream or a wish? ‎Was it the prayer or just the kiss? ‎Where was the love, soon has been forgotten? ‎Where was the spark, fought too soon to lighten? ‎ ‎Thou fools heart hath been mistaken ‎Thy loosed mind soon smell like rotten ‎No longer desiring to behold one's arm, or ‎Embrace in hope for the promising warmth ‎ ‎No longer will she look in the thousand stars ‎No she won't stay awake cause he's not the one ‎ ‎She will flee and disappear in his sight ‎She will run uphill in the desolations arms ‎ ‎What has been done has been marked, what has been overlooked had been overcomed. ‎ ‎No goodbye's, no sweet lullabies. ‎ ‎The moment you close your eyes, ‎Darkness of her absence shall suffice ‎ ‎No regrets, no memories to recollect. ‎A tomb empty and gone, ‎With no name to recognize it. ‎ ‎No last words, no dates to remember. ‎ ‎No candles to lit, no tears to uplift. ‎ ‎It was the day she realized. ‎It was the day she figured it out.
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For When You Feel Lost: You Are Not the Winter 🌱
by JellyListens
Last post
 September 10th
...See more When pain has no name, we sometimes give it our own. We live inside it long enough that we begin to mistake the season for the tree. But winter never asks the branches whether they remember being green. It takes the leaves. It leaves the shape behind. And somewhere beneath the bark, where no one can see, what looks like silence is learning to become a leaf. 🌱 So eat. Drink. Rest. Let the sunlight find your skin without asking it to fix anything. You do not need to understand what your whole life is becoming today. Some things need to remain unfinished for a little while. Leave tomorrow some empty space. There may be something there you have not met yet. Even without an answer, keep a little water for your roots. A tree does not know why it must endure winter. It simply keeps its roots beneath the earth. And when it blooms again, perhaps it will bloom more beautifully than it ever did before. You are not the winter you are passing through. And when you bloom again, you will carry something with you that you could only have learned while everything was bare. Sincerely, Jelly 🪼
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Haiku/tanka #3 (sorry I was going through it a bit)
by PicklesANDOcean4ever
Last post
 September 10th
...See more September 6th, 2026 tanka simple words can hurt "she's my daughter" "hey sweet girl" its slowly chipping away at the joy that I have left   
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The silence of rain
by FairyPeanut
Last post
 September 5th
...See more Sometimes silence feels much softer, Than any words you could offer What does define a listener When facing a loud weather Is not to shout over the rain It’s to stand here amidst the pain To pray with you for a sunray To share an umbrella and stay
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Empty
by FairyPeanut
Last post
 September 5th
...See more Empty As in end As in quiet But also noisy As in, all I wanted was to feel something And all I won was to keep falling Empty as in everything When all around is hollow When all emotions are shallow I look past or I see through Anyways I am not here I am in all you cannot touch I have no clue I don’t think clear I disappeared it was too much
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Empty
by WellsFiction
Last post
 September 4th
...See more I said hi You barely said good bye I said wait Why What did I say What did I do wrong Care to explain No Nothing As usual I ask your friends I ask your family But they say nothing as well They basically tell me to shut up Move on It's your fault Scape goat alert Now I'm therapy Four years later But I still don't know why All i said was hi Empty Broken Shattered Isolated Why Care to explain
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taste of concern
by cyanessence
Last post
 September 4th
...See more *taste of concern* I acquired a beverage Yay Something to quench thirst Yet something tastes not funny The second ingredient listed on the opaque can is "colour" Colour is not for drinking is it? I, personally would not colour apple juice My main concern is the final ingredient "flavour" No number listed simply, "flavour" "Flavour" could be literally anything No way to know without a number What am I drinking? I do not know Some dark hue and a "flavour" that tastes of concern This is why I like the honesty of Shichimi Togarashi which plainly lists its ingredients Red pepper Orange peel White sesame Black sesame Japanese pepper Seaweed Ginger Good stuff, Shichimi Togarashi I especially appreciate the honesty "Flavour"... "Flavour"... My thirst for such a mysterious beverage has been quenched as I refuse to consume that which cannot be discerned "Flavour"... "Flavour"... The taste of concern - Leave someone in the dark and all they see is darkness

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