{"quotes":[{"text":"There was a young lady called Peaches,who simply loved animals to pieces.She ate pigs and sheep,and for cows she would weep,when baked in a sauce of rich greases.","author":"Mango Wodzak","tags":["animal-liberation","animal-rights","hypocrisy","limerick","vegan-limerick","vegan-poem","vegan-poetry","veganism"],"id":3209,"author_id":"Mango+Wodzak"},{"text":"Seven Ages: first puking and mewlingThen very pissed-off with your schoolingThen fucks, and then fightsNext judging chaps' rightsThen sitting in slippers: then drooling.","author":"Robert Conquest","tags":["ageing","limerick","middle-age","old-age","seven-ages-of-man","william-shakespeare","youth"],"id":71173,"author_id":"Robert+Conquest"},{"text":"There are no good tights, Rare they are, a rare sight. You roll and roll Inside a new hole, They´re only good for a fight.","author":"Ana Claudia Antunes","tags":["acrostc","acrostic","battle","effort","fight","good","good-tights","hard-work","hardship","hole","hopeless","inside","limerick","new","poem","poetry","rare","rhymes","roll","sight","test","tights","trials","try-it","trying"],"id":209368,"author_id":"Ana+Claudia+Antunes"},{"text":"Had a cold hummus with pita bread, Under a delicious food, yellow or red. Might just have the appetite to cook Urgent dinner by hook or crook.So that's just a humus humor spread.","author":"Ana Claudia Antunes","tags":["across","acrostic","bread","dinner","food","hummus","humor","humorous","humour","humour","humourous-situations","humus","jokes","limerick","pita","poems","poetry","puns","spreading","words"],"id":250570,"author_id":"Ana+Claudia+Antunes"},{"text":"Latin is a dead tongue And Romans made songs! Then no one disagree: It delighted them in theory Now it's 'the Latin' in me.","author":"Ana Claudia Antunes","tags":["acrostics","appreciation","dead-language","delight","language","latin","learning","light","limerick","poem","poetry","romans","songs","speaking-in-tongues","tongues"],"id":253611,"author_id":"Ana+Claudia+Antunes"},{"text":"Blessed be, it's finally Spring. In joy and delight the birds sing, Ravished upon the entire earth, The new rebirth, Helas, the joy it brings!","author":"Ana Claudia Antunes","tags":["acrostic","birth","cycle","earth","joy","limerick","nature","poetry","spring"],"id":259889,"author_id":"Ana+Claudia+Antunes"},{"text":"Silent our body is a sacred temple, A place to connect with other people. Can't we just stay any younger? Really, we might keep it stronger, Elated, rather than so tilted or feeble!!","author":"Ana Claudia Antunes","tags":["acrostic","aging","aging-gracefully","aging-well","body","body-and-soul","connection","consecrate","devotion","elated","elation","eternal","gravity","guru","healthy","jubilate","learning","levitation","lifestyle","light","limerick","meditate","meditation","mind","old","om","om-sacred-sound","poetry","quiet","rhymes","sacre","sacred","sage","silence","simple-life","soft","tao","temple","thoughts","to-sacre","wellness","yoga"],"id":365413,"author_id":"Ana+Claudia+Antunes"},{"text":"There once was a man from Des MoinesWhose wife was always annoyedHe stepped in the kitchenShe started her bitchin'Now that fucking cunt is dead.","author":"Frances Winkler","tags":["hilarious","humor","limerick","rude"],"id":390584,"author_id":"Frances+Winkler"},{"text":"Poetry isn’t an island, it is the bridge. Poetry isn’t a ship, it is the lifeboat. Poetry isn’t swimming. Poetry is water.","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["art","artist","boat","books","bridge","bridge","canoe","connect","connection","creative-writing","creativity","expression","fiction","harmony","island","kamand","kamand-kojouri","kayak","kojouri","letters","lifeboat","limerick","literature","novelist","poem","poet","poetess","poetry","poetry-poem","poetry","rhyme","save","ship","spoken-word","stanza","swim","swimmer","swimming","unity","verse","vessel","water","water-is-life","water","waterfall","what-is-poetry","words","write","writer","writing","writing","written","yacht"],"id":391668,"author_id":"Kamand+Kojouri"},{"text":"There are no good tights, It´s all such a rare sight... Gently, I put one in. Holes are within! They´re only good for a fight.","author":"Ana Claudia Antunes","tags":["acrobat","acrostic","ballerinas","ballet","ballet-dancer","clothing","cover","covering","fashion","fine","garment","holes","legs","leotard","limerick","one-piece","pantyhose","rhymes","stretch","tight","tights","torn","waist-and-feet","wear","wearing-clothes","women-issues","women-tights","yogi"],"id":398898,"author_id":"Ana+Claudia+Antunes"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":13,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}