Love Free Verse Poems

Nanna traces finger-rhymes around my hand:
tickling poems.
 
Pictures in my sister’s book
speak poetry, and I want her book 
to be mine.
 
Miss Fernside points to...

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I love that she sees me as I would be, 
And not as I am. 
That she tolerates my half century faults
As a passing phase....

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She gave me all 
Made me stood tall 
Like an iroko tree 
She stood by me 

I could remember her smiles 
As we walk under...

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Listen to the songs, falling from the skies,
In brilliant azure notes, soft
And hopeful, honest as the subtle hints
Indigo gentling tears and spirits,
Leaving a trail of...

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Your onyx hair curled and cascaded wild, 
some swirled in the stream of craving squall, 
some laced the lilting lattice of lust 
on your forehead...

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In the futile triviality 
of the desolate wasteland,
a sunburnt solitary tree 
languished a long while,
cast nonetheless 
on the parched ground 
a sensuous shadow, 
my secret...

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In a world where whispers were the currency 
of women,  a letter dared to roar.
Tagore, the weaver of unseen truths, 
unfurled a tale with...

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If I didn’t love you, I wouldn’t hurt as I do now.
I wouldn’t be in this hopeless situation.
I wouldn’t have to hide and keep so...

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Touched by the sun
warmth is around,
touched by your presence,
my heart wants to discover...
Tears slipping from my face
when you are far,
wide smiles cross my life
when you...

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green and white sign
"Welcome to Colorful Colorado" 
greets my eyes
as Mt Blanca rises 
smooth and elegant 
as a wedding cake
draped with fondant
late April snow coated
majestic...

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In my kitchen's grasp, where spices hop free,
Whispers of our memories, in each recipe.
Khichdi's humble grace, a bow to our roots,
In grains and lentils, tradition...

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Like us all poets, we are all the same humankind, 
Our thoughts have no boundaries, no limitations, 
We may be bound by the different virtues...

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Hills & Crosses

I hung myself on a cross
To atone for my works
An attempt on my soul 
To rid him off of his unwholesomeness 
To cut...

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