Best Free Range Poems

Form = Free Range Verse

The Hunt

Mans desire to hunt
Testing skills from the beginning of time
I had outfitted myself the day before
With camouflage, and all the...

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Dreaming and Wondering


I often wonder as the day unfolds,
Will I find love…as the years make me old?

And when the sun sets in the sky
Thoughts of...

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The summer air was still, 'neath golden sky
where lively birdsong filled motionless trees
sun shied away while cirrus clouds passed by
air cooled and briefly birthed a...

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When Sara and I take our walk each day,
We usually go the same old way.
Today we decided to make a change,
We decided to make our...

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We are blighted wards
Sordid, trepidatious scars
Haven's wall too darkly far
Eden's thornbush guards
Caught behind our safety bars
Still, we count the free range stars

4/02/20

For 'Pick a Title...

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I feel sad at the death of my dog,
my loyal companion and best friend.
Our back yard was a gathering place,
where we'd roughhouse and play without...

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In My Language

This you might not know is a conversation,
It’s a conversation not of persons.
This is a conversation of multiple languages.
If you could observe the...

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Where no ponies free ranged, I dreamt to break and wrangle paints.
            Where ponies...

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sitting by myself
singing opera in the woods—
a peacock appears

© February 15, 2012
Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen


HERE'S THE STORY SINCE THIS IS based on a true story! LOL...

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Nine wild mustangs canter across the prairie
Old West symbols of animals on free range
Known to them is only one adversary

-- Pounding hooves fade into history’s...

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His thick-soled hiking shoes
tread too loudly
to celebrate time's homing invitation
to hear and see, 
feel and smell resonantly hidden diversity
within Spirit's wooded ridge.

He stops to break...

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Dragon did a pratfall, his tail accidentally taking his Mama’s computer out.
Poor Mama’s mind, lost its’ cool, as her computer hit the floor and went...

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3 
Pay attention! 
Important chicken poetry coming up, 
though no binary fantasies shall deconstruct 
into raucous biddy enjambment. 


4 
Grandfatber always kicked Grandmother's chickens away...

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The ocean, ours; the wild hammock,
ours; sand dunes, ours; walking the pipeline,

ours; serendipity in a time of liberty, ours
We had the sea when it was...

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The plump hen grunted
Having popped her morning free range
No egg on her face...

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