School Free Verse Poems

I asked the blackbird at morning,
two plus two?
He began to sing,
Then I asked the robin
Three times three?
He began to sing,
I asked the cuckoo, 
conjugate the...

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They say the world is full of voices,
But mine gets lost among the sound.
A whisper drowned by louder choices,
A silence no one seems to hound.

I...

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You are lovely,
full of birdsong with not much dew
was there ever a morning such as you...

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I have awaken to some days filled with misery.
And there are other days clouded with mystery.
And there are some yesterdays that are neither
good nor bad...

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Sleep drooled all over my pillow. 
Stole money from my purse. 
Ate everything in the fridge. 
Told me if I don’t sleep a collision of...

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three generations of mothers created a fourth-
    mine, my children's, my grandchildren's
         between the...

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The things I paid for…
Like the feeling of swinging on my swingset. 
It only cost a dandelion. 
With seeds so harmless. 

I was in high...

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Study Talks


Maths, Science, English, Hindi,
Sr. Newton why u discovered gravity? , 
Formulas and experiments, 
books took our brain on rent

Day or night root and Square...

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I do not ask for light, but for the darkness that remembers it once was light.
I do not ask for forgiveness, but for the strength...

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tin cup music

life’s story was etched on her face
carved with pocket-knife memories
rubbed in with grammar school erasers
and colored like heavy wet fog
on a stinson beach...

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By noon, the halls throb with static, a low thrum like teeth grinding in sleep. The school, half-submerged in memory, holds its breath. Beneath a...

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He speaks fluent pause,
writes paragraphs in glances,
but the world wants him to underline
what he feels in italics.

They say, “Look me in the eye.”
He tries—but it’s...

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2024.4.24
One year ago, today, at 13:28:00, 
You installed some Conversation Apps XMPP.
A single word "Hi" was sent to my device.
Then at 14:28:00, exactly one hour...

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I want the kind of love that young children can't stand
the kind that remind old people of their young loves
the kind where we spend hours...

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I am wearing heavy feathers
with the gaze of the day lit to my backside.
A rotisserie routine,
hot with punishment and prayer.
Prayer for punishment,
punishment for prayer.

Answers from...

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