Storm Free Verse Poems

i pray for the men
who eat alone at diners
elbows on chipped formica,
coffee gone lukewarm,
eggs sweating under fluorescent light,
they stare into the distance
as if it owes...

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Silvia,
I am writing this so there is a kind of closure for us.
A mending of the holes we bore in our souls.
Silence has defined us...

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I crawl through darkness —
small, scared,
biting at shadows
to keep my life,
to keep my fear away.

I hold my breath,
keep still,
hiding trembling beneath the strike,
trying not to...

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My love for him will never fade,
In silent hope, my heart has stayed.
He spoke of love, yet couldn’t see
The aching storm that lived in me.

I...

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They all say "It'll be alright.”
"You’ll get a job, save yourself—save your family."
"Trust the process,"—
that’s the song we’re all singing.

But deep down,
no one knows the...

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All my life I have been music, a silent symphony floating through time,
not the kind of melody that encourages dancing under the starlight,
but the kind...

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He was reborn & rebuilt
brick by brick from 
casted stones
meant to destroy
A heavenly construction approved
by the most high
employed angels from every
corner & angle
high to low
The...

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Ocean speaks to me of the words
I'm afraid to confront
And then consoles me with her wit
Like no soul I see in front.
Calm on the outside
Carries...

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I found you not in light, but in shadow’s breath—
A whisper etched in realms that outlive death.
We never touched — and yet, you shiver still,
Each...

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If ever presented with a platter of choices 
I shall choose a certain kind of calmness.
Unlike the one which holds leaves together before storm,
I choose...

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When you flew in with the fellows of the flowers-
I knew the apples and where the strawberries rang...
Every doorbell in the garden boasted the entire...

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Dragon was rainbow warrior’s cartooning muse
She bought swirls of turquoise and purples to the canvases
Rainbow warrior was fiery and fierce like her muse
Together they were...

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The moment that I awaken is the hardest moment of the day
when, my mind starts to come alive with the promise of a new day
then,...

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O Trump, bold Prince, who stirs the crowd,
With thunderous voice, both fierce and loud,
You grasp the reins where power flows,
A lion’s heart that fiercely grows.

In...

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"The clouds parted
   like the pursed lips of desire".
Rains then poured out
   like held-back tears of anger,
shedding emotions from the sky
...

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