Best Freeverse Poems

Pick up your old guitar, 
find the soothing chords,
plucked notes or rhythmic hum,
voice your lyrics by firelight.
Bard, sing the songs of love, 
where none can dance tonight
but don't dare give your heart away,
take your place in destiny....

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Sitting by the window in the pale moonlight
looking out into the darkness
waiting,
to hear her heartbeat on the breeze.
My eyes searching the shadows, 
a glimpse of my love as a snowy owl drifts by,
the sigh in my heart matching the feathered hush 
of silently flexed wings.
I...

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Walking besides the beloved's yard.
I saw her fragrance-enchanting the palace..
Her rosy essence couldn't make me stand-
For another while;darted I inside the house..
Fetching the water to the greens;
Stood she-besides me.
The eyes met-the song on her lips too.
She enchanted-the bells,of the holy day.
Couldn't stop my feet-to watch...

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'Love Story' Poetry Contest. 
Sponsor: Regina Mcintosh
1st Place. 

“I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.” 
                     ...

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i never wanted to be a god—
just someone you cried in front of.
that was enough divinity for me.
your grief tasted like pomegranate seeds,
sweet and bitter
and buried in the soft ruin of you.
i held your sobs in my palms
like something holy.
like juice from a fruit
i didn’t...

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in the desolate
          solitary hours
    when fear trickles down my spine

  time is my jailor
    closing me behind its doors
         ...

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seeking elusive violets
     in shadowy patches 
           beneath jacaranda trees
     a window of sunlight fell upon you

desiring your favor 
     despite rapidly descending...

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Spirit didn’t knock.
It entered through the back door—
a sliver of wind in my kitchen,
on a Tuesday so ordinary
I thought the sacred had forgotten me.

The sky was the color of old bruises,
and my hands were inside a basin of water
that had cooled too quickly.
The air held...

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it did not knock.
it poured through the cracks—
in dreams,
in fever,
in the silence between my inhale
and forgetting.

i didn’t summon it.
didn’t pray.
didn’t kneel beside any sacred thing.
but something sacred knelt inside me.
without warning.
without language.
without mercy.

it came wrapped in ash and static.
my ears rang for three days.
my limbs...

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i text dead people for advice.
not because they answer—
they don’t—
but because they never interrupt.
i tell my grandfather
about the boy who left mid-winter
and how my ribcage still
clicks shut like a locket
when someone new gets close.
he was buried in silk,
but i like to imagine
he’d wear combat boots...

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The cold air brushes my cheeks 
My fingertips glide on glass 
It doesn't feel like anything at first 
It feels numb
The lights in my life shine but the moment of warmth 
It crawls back through my spine 
And my body cries for you...

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There is a place tucked away, 
in dreams, a land where they'll come true, 
my destination, my plan is to wake up one day.
and find that it will be realised,
a land with no borders, 
a world where all is one.
and one means together, 
everybody having...

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I often question why we are here
are we pieces to a bigger puzzle
why do we hide these questions from the world,
afraid of rejection, fear?

I often question what it's like to be mute, 
observing the world instead of trying to figure it out-
observing people instead of...

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chronic insomnia cripples
        its bubble of distortions guts my day      
             
         ...

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Once a day I would meet a girl named Jasmine, 
Who gave me a cup of Jasmine tea

The warm, flowing liquid went down my throat,
A smile dancing upon my cheeks as I enjoyed the taste each day,
Which brought her a million delights

Once a week I...

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