Kids Free Verse Poems
These Kids Free Verse poems are examples of Free Verse poems about Kids. These are the best examples of Free Verse Kids poems written by international poets.
Closer to youI wish a minute was an hour
An hour was a day
And life was an eternity
So I could get closer to you
If only you would hear
What...
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7th grade, best friend,
I wishI wish it was possible for you to actually love me for who I am... I wish you accepted me as much as you accepted...
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depression,
Callimachus English Translations IICallimachus English translations
For Gail White
To the Cup-Bearer
by Callimachus
translation by Michael R. Burch
Decant the wine then toast "To Diokles!" Nor does the beautiful boy Achelous touch...
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beautiful, boy, death, flower,
Callimachus English Translations IThese are my English translations of poems and epigrams by the ancient Greek poet Callimachus aka Kallimachos. His surviving poems come from various sources including...
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death, death of a
She Smoked
She smoked
She smoked,
my mother did, a LOT!
I never liked it.
To me she looked like
of those “molls” in
detective magazines,
later on television,
cigarette dangling
from...
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addiction, endurance, mother, perspective,
Grieving Mother
The small shoes sit by the door,
dust motes dancing where tiny feet once shuffled,
eager for cartoons, for scraped knees, for my hand.
Her drawings still cling...
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grief, loss, mother, mother
For the Sake of the Children
Let’s not make a scene—
not in front of the metaphor-curious.
We owe them a semblance
of shared syllabic stability.
You take Tuesdays,
I’ll keep weekends and the enjambments.
Let’s split...
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extended metaphor, friendship, funny
Inside cell of 16By 11, I thought I'd have it down by 15,
But by 16 and a sour sunday morn,
And daisy chains foiled into the moor,
And hands that...
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absence, abuse, childhood, family,
Wake up wake upWake up wake up
Children of God
It is now a new day
That our father brought
For us
So we must wake up now
Children you need to play
Outside during...
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inspirational,
broken sisterhood
sometimes i think of you when i can't sleep and i stare at the closet, i remember when we were kids and used to hide...
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abuse, america, anger, angst,
one trick ponyone trick pony
the man was too corpulent to dress in lime green and lemon yellow
yet it was his colored grapefruit vest that identified him with...
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animal, dark, death, loss,
Night TerrorsRunning down Chicago Ave barefoot brain buzzing hymns and static, neon crucifix blinking above a bodega, the gospel of smoke and piss, all-night diner flickering...
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allegory, allusion, america, angel,
I See You AmericaDown that back road
that heads out of town
across the railroad tracks
past the water treatment plant
in a mobile home park
where howling dogs are
hooked with...
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Categories:
poverty,
Mental TerrorMental Terror
Man is born to be a man. God created this principle
God created his image. His image. The human
Intelligence, free will, imagination, and the ability...
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Categories:
fate, life,
Rhymes Part 2Well, the FED was in. A light. Dude, he ing didn't die. His brain came out, but he ing was fly as came up...
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Categories:
age, appreciation, baseball, deep,