Best Libre Poems

The deception of  “free verse”: Dreams II, Translation of Etiemble’s “L’imposture du vers libre” by T. Wignesan

“Free verse, free not to be verse” – Audiberti

My love is not blue like a lake
my love is not blue like a sky
but red swollen with blood
and of...

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it is cold and flowers are 
                                  d y i n g
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Make it

Or Break it

That's High School for Ya'...

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Vive le CANADA Libre
 
 
Toujours merveilleux
Toujours grand
Toujours libre
Terre de libertés
 
PKP, PKP, jamais ne volé mon pays
PKP, PKP, jamais ne volé mon pays

 
 
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PKP est le surnom d'un fameux séparatiste qui veut se présenter à la direction du parti québécois. Même...

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Without a voice it cannot sing
No echos in the heart will ring
Come read,contemplate,give it time
Euphony ,floats on tides of rhyme;

Set free from custom's tyranny
Altenatives in poetry,
Lineation and enjambment
become the poets's intrument.

Beware ,sans pace in patterned verse
Vers Libre scans as prose, or worse

and

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Me?

I'm two hundred and sixty pounds of fat
muscle and bone.
ligaments and nerves.
emotions and freewill.

six feet and three inches
of longing
and of hope 
that is bound to be lost

I alone am no hero.

but then again,
alone,
none of us are.

solitude brings out the strength
in only the mad
the frantic
the hopeless
and...

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Le livre
The book

C'est vari
This/it is true

Merci beaucoup, Mon Dieu
Thank you very much, My God...

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I will  NEVER  forget 
the day that I ended your  s  u f  f  e  r  i  n  g 
and since then I have been on a very
       ...

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We danced
Upside down
Like cartoons
Watched
From passing
Planets...

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Villanelle : Should one reorder genuine vers libre entire

Should one reorder genuine vers libre entire
Pull Pound down tear veil off event horizon holes
All to make for one's own sacre the pur sang lyre

Invent a machine feed it Homeric fire
No enjambement perfect rhyme rhythm metre folds
Should...

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Symbols
poesie
pluperfect
                  words
painted
             enigmatic
allegory
images
             ...

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The writers of vers libre follow no structure,
it begins with an image in their head;
          words imagining a picture,
and soon the creating will spread;
          but it is...

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some rime

in mine...

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Viva Viva Vers Libre
O,conquer ye ole Villanelle
with covenant and spell

O, how many lines?
what are ye meters?
Viva Viva Vers Libre.

Viva  Viva Vers Libre
O, come to me in the night
with covenant and spell

Make room ; make form
as with ye ole Villanelle,
Viva Viva Vers Libre.

Mark ye manuals;study...

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Poetry, look!
A free worm* crawls on you hand!

The French always tended to invent 
all sorts of nasty things:
freedom, equality, fraternity, 
French fries, free verse.
When I was a small and ardent poet,
I worshipped rhymes
and denied a free verse the right to be called 
poetry.
With time I...

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