Kids Free Verse Poems

Set me free to love again—
You’re holding me much too tight.
And if you won’t turn me loose,
I think I’ll lose my mind.

Because you don’t really...

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We make our own choices
In life and no one's perfect
But when you decide to have kids
It's your responsibility not
The grandparents, the children now
Have excessive energy,...

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he hid himself in the closet
whenever he heard the footsteps in the hall
and when that man was in the room
he would stare through the open...

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Within the threescore and six orbitz that span my lifetime...

the impact of current
Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR),
also known as Industry 4.0 revolution
characterized by the fusion of...

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He reflected on the life he had lived 
Staring out the window watching his kids with his grandkids 
They were his greatest gifts
He also felt...

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I saw you before you saw me.
Still walk the same.
Still carry the world
like it owes you something.

And just like that—
a flood of years
came rushing through...

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They say boys don’t cry.
They say it like a promise.
Like strength is stitched in our skin at birth
and weakness is something
you have to unzip your...

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What I see in stars above is extremely wearisome,
with useless inane details that I wish I never knew.
Light years, space-time, black holes, big bangs, 
myriads...

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My mother had called ahead.
I was sixteen and still afraid to ask 
for the things I needed,
so she booked the reservation.

We'd called it Pit City
when...

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Suffer the plot of the parking lot,
Acts of attrition, lots of the disappearing shopping carts,
I had the camera out
Could hardly see where I’m going.
I called...

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Famine preys upon a desolated civilization 
Dying out the old breed new world awaits 
What makes one soul defile goodness 
The heart, as if it...

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I knew justice was a myth
The first time I heard about trayvon martin
Killed over skittles
His killer 
George zimmerman 
Acquitted 
He became a celebrity 
And trayvon
He...

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If they shoot, tell my story

A boy writes a letter to his mother
She will know nothing of it
Until
Something bad happens
But he knows something will
He knows...

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i hope i wasn’t born the die young
i hope i have the chance to make it out of this damned town
to go to college,
to get...

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Bloody war raged on.
Superpower leader said:
"Sometimes kids fighting
like crazy in the yard, can't be parted."
"Best leave them fight on for a while."
Anyone care for TACO...

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