Mother Free Verse Poems
These Mother Free Verse poems are examples of Free Verse poems about Mother. These are the best examples of Free Verse Mother poems written by international poets.
Where Does Doubt Dwell?Not between heaven and earth,
but between “yes” and “why.”
Not in the mouths of philosophers,
but in the wounds of those who had no time to read.
Doubt...
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Categories:
poems, poetry, poets, writing,
The Father of My Thoughts Did Not Recognize MeWhen I was born,
there was no one to hold my mind.
Only a faded sky and a mother
trembling above a forgotten prayer.
My thought was born fatherless.
And...
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Categories:
birth, child, father son,
Where No One WaitsI no longer want answers.
I no longer want signs.
only to walk
to the end of this thought
where maybe,
someone,
will light a candle.
and if no one is there,
I...
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Categories:
absence, blessing,
When the Truth Broke in TwoI remember the first question
I never had the courage to speak.
I feared I would not receive an answer,
and feared even more if I did.
words were...
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Categories:
wisdom,
Sometimes in SrebrenicaIt might be a city of paradise in Bosnia,
Its memories are as fragile as a vase
The horrors and tears stained on the canvas of...
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Categories:
death, history, war,
The Truth Of SocietyCover your mouth and laugh it out.
The world blinks,
Clink, clink.
Every bottle comes with a label.
Every child comes with a mother.
Every person comes with an identity.
Every...
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Categories:
10th grade, age, birth,
Before my mom gave me birth
I’ve known my mother
since before I had a shape,
when my soul — a seed of silent stars,
was still searching for its furrow.
I was an...
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Categories:
absence, child, death, family,
What the Hill RemembersI have counted her footsteps
for thirty-seven years
the same path worn
into my slope,
the same pause
at the thorny ridge
where she catches her...
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Categories:
children, mother, woman,
Seashells and SorrowsThe ocean is home to a curation of shells,
The type you admire, the kind you call into,
The ones that whisper stories the sea never tells.
The...
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Categories:
nature,
That Other Voice I Hear Inside Of Your Head
That other voice I hear inside of my head—
It speaks when the day is silent and dead.
A whisper not mine, though shaped by my tongue,
The...
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Categories:
12th grade,
A Mother's Love, A Tornado's EmbraceYour love, Mom, is like a storm,
A Mother's Love, A Tornado's Embrace
A whirlwind, fierce and far from norm.
It sweeps through my life with tender rage,
A...
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Categories:
mother,
KnowingAn infant knows its mother
by scent and breath
a mother knows her twins
they only fool themselves
God knows us by the color
of our souls, every shade,
dent and...
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Categories:
character, community, culture, humor,
He is a cosmosWhy read Walt Whitman?
Because he writes majestic poems,
Luminous for who has a heart wounded by life,
Because he loves America and its men,*
That he writes that...
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Categories:
community, poets,
What Once WasFragments of a house foundation
blacken by the fire.
Never rebuilt
empty lot nice size
Good shade tress and high grass
Potential promising
Did a child perish here?
People once resided
Old swing...
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Categories:
future, hope, life,
Mother Bird Star WarmthSeems so surreal...billions of beings
held in place by invisible forces
atop a giant spinning orb
dependent on the charity of
mother bird's star warmth.
It's a golden time...
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Categories:
earth day,