Freedom Free Verse Poems

In the depth of silence, where shadows dance their eternal ritual,
A song of the heart is born, a call piercing the veil of forgetfulness,
There where...

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This war was not born in the fields of Ukraine,
But in boardrooms, treaties, and promises betrayed.
In 1990, beneath quiet lamps and whispered words,
The West told...

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Dragon tongue

Ill be your dragon
I see your smile
Through your alien face
I didn't mean to abandon you
In time when the army needs us most
Without the mass...

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they chant-and they chant
but do they know the words true meaning?
they wear the colours that show their support 
but do they know what these colours...

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We were once madly in love,?
Young hearts caught in reckless fire.?
Then I told you the dump truck joke—
?A laugh, then silence,?And slowly, I walked away.

I...

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     In a sliver of
       a crack in
     the sidewalk
 ...

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help.
the song, the lyrics, the music.
its burning, my hearts on fire.
listening to it makes me think of your words
sitting in your car singing "ill always...

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I am the mirror of truth
I am the reflection of accountability
That will show the shards of what is, not what's not

I will reflect their own...

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In the quiet corners of her whispered fears,  
she carries a heart wrapped in shadows,  
trembling like the leaves outside,  
each gust...

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Mask by Adejola Joseph
Mask
Where does it come from?
What?
Delusive rationality!
Are we out of mind?
Senses drained and dried?
No!
What do you capitalized on?
Neutral ambition?
Stop writhing in pain
It halts...

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   Why am I disturbed by the sight?
   Everyone having a fight.
   Lost in beliefs they are right.
 ...

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You are a prisoner of your own mind,
Chained within a cell,
That binds your thoughts,
And conceals your head.

Fragile, hidden, perfectly eclipsed,
Your mind lacks the fortitude,
It needs...

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Saturday musings~~


The
dance of seeming
opponents
which separation
makes apparent~
may suggest the
end of the gold
sought in separation~


Blood
flows apparently
and does not~
without not
the flow is lost~


Nothing
cannot be named
but the naming
of something
may...

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Free me by Adejola Joseph 
Free me 
I want to be free 
A bird in the air 
A fish in the sea
A lion in the...

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My poems do not have
a face and voice -- 
I sign them, Nobody, by choice.
As Emily suggested -- no difference
in blue and red? They are...

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