Lonely Free Verse Poems

The Song of Magpies
by Lady Ho
translation by Michael R. Burch

The magpies nest on the Southern hill.
You set your nets on the Northern hill.
The magpies escape,...

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Empty ears hear
  broken memories on replay

  Or was it

Broken ears hear
  empty memories all the day long?

Either way
  these ears...

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Summer
Watery sensations!
A feel of having fallen into a light full of summer!
Sprung out of late night October dark.
The lightness of the wind.
The mystery of an...

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I danced with you 
through a snowstorm. 

You danced with me 
through the rain. 

Now I dance alone 
every winter, and cry
every time that 
it...

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It's strange,
how you can be surrounded by people
and still feel completely alone,
like there's a wall inside of you
no one can get through...

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The brothers may have said it best
You've lost that lovin feelin
But I've managed to convince myself
My own righteousness is why I stay 

Every effort I...

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Hidden in weeds
 heart vavle on squeeze 
Watch me not bleed
Even if it cuts deep
Keeps you away from 
My  boredom  pale bule face
Made...

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“Once upon a magical evening an enchanted fairy I happened to see 
dressed in a fantastical dress with  two dappled wings of lace, ...

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Let it go
Get over it
Life moves on
The words echo
From all corners of the world
No one ever understands

Just need to open up
To ask for help
But even...

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She's so high
Higher
I fall to pieces
Crawling
Hanging by a moment
Its the end of the world as we know it 

I miss you
In the end
A last resort
Nothing...

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 Present  me with different patterns,
A  person  without  anxiety  within.
What  I  mean is, make  me feel ...

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If tomorrow we never speak again,
I hope you still carry the softness of us in your heart.
Not the silence that followed,
but the warmth in our...

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When the heart feels the
weight of unvoiced verses,
as the verdant embers of Venus
follow the frozen warmth
and the permafrost flickers
of persimmon and cinnamon,
like poetry slipping through
tortured...

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They say we go somewhere.
But what if it’s not a place,
but a punctuation—
a semicolon curled at the edge of time,
where breath pauses,
but the sentence still...

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arrive in an
empty
hollow
building
(alone
no purpose)

arrive in a
hollow
empty
building
(alone
no purpose)

arrive in a
purposeless
hollow
building
(alone
empty)

empty in a lonely building without purpose
empty
mpty
pty
ty
y
...

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