Deep Free Verse Poems

You left me in the deep end,
Where shadows dance and waters
Bend.

Alone, I linger on the brink,
A hesitant heart, a silent ink.
I can't swim that well,...

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Here we are lost in our creation,
lost to all creation.

Take my hand and take a look around me.
just take a look around, see!

Can you see...

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I tried to speak, but the words were hollow,
My breath held tight to leeward of an echo.
You said goodbye, like the end would follow,
But I’m...

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Just keep walking
The words ringing in his ears
He marches ever onward
Trying to leave the memories behind

Around each new bend
A new start could await
But all he...

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Iridescent against sand and stone 
Lies and battle cries
California fields sundered and sterile
Networks of new wars 
Hungry feed the gas lamps and hollow 
Walls and...

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Sometimes, I just need a silent hug, like a blanket of stars wrapping around my soul,
Without words or advice, just a circle of arms saying...

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gazing wistfully 
through a deep mysterious ocean door 
into a swimming dream of you and me
a confluence of what maybe was
and what might have been...

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Deep within me, I feel inertia as a slow dance of stars trapped in their own light,
A Higgs field enveloping my soul like a heavy...

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Line of inquiry:
“being mistook we burnt the book
thoughts rest, we dwell in our heart’s nest
touched by spirit, our body shook
by God’s light blest as we...

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I’m gonna play my vinyl in the urinal, and that’s final
Life is bad when you're sad
Ain't you glad they took you out of school, coz...

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There,
if your spacesuit tears,
death awaits.
“Armstrong, when he arrived on the moon,
must have felt the same,
though this is only
a hundred meters.
Still,
I felt a kind of
nirvana,”
said Jacques...

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Peering into a pair of eyes
I saw the sun explode
The line between life and death’s inside
  from all angles
Vermillion clouds decorate the aether
A voice...

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To My Son, On Your Wedding Day


From the moment I first held you tight,
I knew you’d fill the world with light;
Through scraped-up knees and growing...

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The air thickens, a velvet cloak
drawn across a gasping sky.
No sudden crack but a low groan first,
from the belly of the coming storm.
It's the earth's...

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Tangled Up in Blue

We met by a river, or maybe a crowded street,
the exact light fading, the year doesn't matter much now.
You were talking to...

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