ChangeI’m nobody’s everything,
I’m just everybody’s nothing.
How can the world want me to change,
When the world has stayed the same?...
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Categories:
growing up,
Form: Free verse
RemissionIts dark its quiet
And I am pretty much a poet
When wihout drinking i get drunk
And honest feelings comes in bunk
What is life I dont know
Even in a decade would not go
Is it a remission or was it there within
I guess its both in heart that thin
What is the purpose
To be happy
What is the fact...
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Categories:
birth, creation, deep, life,
Form: Free verse
What the Morning Leaves BehindI woke this morning
to the thick breath of heat,
a humid Sunday rising slow as regret.
The tulip tree leaves hung there,
backlit like stained glass in a forgotten chapel,
and beneath the sagging feeder,
a ragged pile of feathers—gray, white, brown—
strewn across the grass,
as though something holy had been torn apart
in the night.
Fox, coyote, hawk—
it hardly matters.
Something lived, and...
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Categories:
nature,
Form: Free verse
Fading LoudlyI dye my hair to stand out from the crowd
To not fade In the background
My skin littered with ink so eyes don’t stray away something to draw your attention
Something that will burn onto your memory
But instead I feel like my hair is grey and brown to camouflage to the full world around me
My skin is...
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Categories:
art, deep,
Form: Free verse
InvisibilityWhen we where younger we all wanted that invisibility cloak, talking about how many pranks we would do or how we would sneak out
I was born with it sewn into my skin
I’ve tried cutting it, dyeing it but nothing seems to affect the effect...
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Categories:
deep,
Form: Free verse
Equi-distantHappiness and sadness are equi-distant from each other
It's the speed that makes all the difference
From point to point
A distance travelled in our minds but takes hold of the body
Like a pendulum swinging from end to end
Our souls dim and perspectives flicker
A proud eagle becomes solitary
A vast vibrant field becomes lonely
Words are given innuendoes belonging to...
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Categories:
angst, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Girly-GirlCrown of gold curls in rainbow wrappers.
Girly-girl, at two, favored to be beautiful.
Eyelids delight to be painted baby-girl green.
Dolly’s lascivious lashes soaked in black ink.
Innocent strawberries dot baby-blue sleeveless top.
Soon, she’ll be strapless, primping at the vanity.
For now, she holds a mirror with her eyes closed;
her reflection not quite perfected; a natural blush
of lips, cherub-cheeks...
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Categories:
beauty, child, girl, growing
Form: Free verse
A touch is a Hug for the LonelyA touch is a hug for the lonely,
I thought as I sat on that plane.
The sleeping man beside me,
Would never know that feeling he made.
As his head nodded off,
His elbow extended to mine.
This little little tap
Echoed in a hollow mine.
I savoured such a warm embrace,
From the man that would never know me,
But I couldn’t help...
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Categories:
feelings, flying, loneliness, lonely,
Form: Free verse
Final Vestiges of AntiguaCooled off to take a sip; two.
Greedily waking up; fading
of the whole cup - butterflies,
trees, flowers; drips touching
the final vestiges of Antigua.
Fear ascended into the canopy,
slid along the line; work gloves,
gripping. Incomplete instructions,
lack of common sense, slowed
me down, with my feet off
the ground. Grounds remind me,
in this creamy, courage cup
to not give up, keep going...
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Categories:
adventure, appreciation, drink, fear,
Form: Free verse
Follow the flow of the TeesFollow the flow of the Tees
Meet the folk whose sweat
and tears shaped the land,
brought in the bounty,
shifted the steel to build
Better places.
Follow the flow of the Tees.
Meet the people who fish
in peace. Look for a seal or two.
See them bobbing, watching you
watching them. Observe them catching the
rays of the sun on the...
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Categories:
animal, appreciation, culture, fishing,
Form: Free verse
Once more I want to thank you FatherOnce more I want to thank you
Father
For everything you did for me
Through all the years
You gave me the gift of life
After you had created
Me in you image
You had given me
Grey hair and brown eyes
You tell me that I am
Beautiful you in your eyes
Father I don't agree with you
At all
Father you are untitled to your opinion
I...
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Categories:
inspirational,
Form: Free verse
The invitation of love into a black woman's heartDeep down she was a hopeless romantic
Masked with hate because she thought she couldn't have it
After all she was a black woman
When she asked the world for love it laughed at her
It's why she gave up, a story so tragic
Growing up in a world where white was the beauty standard
And being black was...
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Categories:
black love, discrimination, longing,
Form: Free verse
To be blackTo be black
Is to constantly run
Maybe that's why they stereotype
Saying we are fast
Speaking of fast
That's what they say when a black girl has a nice ass
Because being black and being a woman
Means that it's our fault
And we deserve it
To be black
Is to constantly fight back
With the hope we won't be...
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Categories:
corruption, discrimination, prejudice, race,
Form: Free verse
HE THAT GOETH TO-FOREThe high and the lows, strife and blows
Through high tides, and angry winds,
Hurricanes and tornadoes
Life stalls, uncertainity builds,
fear beckons and faith dissolves
But with the last ounce of hope, i cling to Psalms 46:1
Daunting opposition flanks all directions ,
Laying bare fibres of my imperfections.
Trust turned to ammunition,
piercing the fabric of my unsuspecting fondness.
The multitudes in...
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Categories:
encouraging, faith, hope, loneliness,
Form: Free verse
Getting in The Way
I am always trying
to put words into the mouth
of mornings, speak
over the quiet that descends
at dusk when the world
pauses to take a breath.
It is my voice I hear
echoing back in the wind
and my fears that crawl
the dark on those long nights.
I make the world
a reflection of me.
I seem to get in the way
and...
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Categories:
self, silence, sound, world,
Form: Free verse
Specific Types of Free Verse Poems
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