Marriage Free Verse Poems

Your divorcing words rip at me.

Like a callous young boy
who tears the wings off
of a butterfly,
then throw
Its butchered body
into the air
and yells "fly".

Although I still...

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Love is now a game of knives.
She arrives in silk—smiling sweet—
But what lies behind that smile?
A mirror or deceit?

She loves with terms.
You, with blood.
Her heart...

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For some, it’s a softer escape
A flight from silence, not quite love
As if a ring alone could mend a soul
Bruised by too many “maybe tomorrows."

To...

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She’s one lonely soul with occasional
Nosebleed, all from the sea-salt of distant
Waves, charmed to weariness by breezes powerful enough
To unfurl umbrellas rolled behind Grandfather’s clock.
She...

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Wait. To you, she's “La Lopez”. To me, “Jen”, always.
Doyenne of “Anaconda”. A date, indeed!
You’d have me narrate the gravamen,
say how it was? She was...

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By Michael Parker
…when art and love are of one stuff.  
	– “The Poem Unheard” by Amanda Hall


Love is like a Chagall—
the bride and groom...

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The Falling Out

I find the ceiling fan
quite interesting – a whirling
meditation; -- blades
whiz! – air cooling unseen
yet felt

apparently
all affecting not overtly visible

how one’s heart reacts...

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This is a form called a Pensee, but I deviated from the true form. Also, somewhat an example for my contest. I use Isaiah first...

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We married not beneath a sky,
But in the belly of the Earth —
The Mponeng mine, where shadows cry,
And gold remembers sorrow’s birth.

No roses bloomed, no...

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Bader means full moon in Arabic,
but to me,
your name carries more than light
it holds the weight of my world.
My life revolves around you,
and I don’t...

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I love you.
More than anything I’ve ever known,
More than I can hold inside these quiet bones.

Each second of the day,
You live in my mind like...

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He began to take her away from her hobbies.
No big deal, her friends thought.
Then he took her away from her family.
They thought it was just...

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This is hunger.
This is the way my stomach
turns itself inside out
when I hear a phrase
that makes my spine
straighten like a lightning rod.

I devour adversity
consume the...

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In the depths of silence, where sounds fade into echoes of longing,
The veil of mysteries unfolds like a river of thoughts and emotions,
The wind brings...

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something cheery and light...
JUST ME AND YOU
two wheels spinning, hearts beating as one,
a bicycle built for two*, just me and you. 
 
our laughter echoing,...

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