Free Verse Poems (29,541)

Back To BernacciaThere’s a place in my heart Nowhere else can be A place just for you In my dreams Cheviots to the sea Yeavering Bell to the old Tyne River Forev...

Swinging of the thuribleI've only ever attended one Catholic Mass that I can recall, I like the ceremony not that I fully understand it, perhaps in these days we lack rites a...

OVERMELTIf the only true mercy ever shown to Man by the fates is Woman isn’t her “Otherness” vital? Or are our offspring to be an amalgam of a sort o...

The road to KillybegsSo many Irish on this site, why not write of the Emerald land??...

Feminine & StrongJust my sentiments after observing and noticing online ... noting some contradiction b/w their common battlecry script and their behaviour/choices......

NothingI think I should write about NOTHING, cause today, I have NOTHING to say, and NOTHING is more than its parts, it can ease or break many hearts, NOTHIN...

EDIT TIMEHow can it be that humans must spend half their lives re-evaluating what they received from those who adored cherished and would even die for t...

Dressed in White..Depicting Winter snow as a new bride....Just letting my imagination roam freely. Christmas is a time for family and fond memories....

YupMake up u mind...

No wordsDaddy wont you keep me safe, daddy wont you keep me safe, Im only two, I depend on you, daddy wont you keep me safe. Daddy, please dont walk away, da...

Its not dinner.How would you write the story of life? Without being stabbed, with a knife, how would you say, its not that real, something you can feel? You can't.....

BIG? BROTHER?He's our big brother, what he says goes, he loves us more than anyone knows, everything he says is always true, when he wants your opinion, he will gi...

SNAP JUDGEMENTMilan Springtime Twilight From my window I see four men formally suited with raised fists and open mouths My camera is set One fing...

Tropical SplendourThis is my signature piece of writing, as conveyed in the last three paragraphs: "At such moments alone with nature one can feel a strange unity .w...

Cheers mateThat's ma word Give thanks I give thanks for you And you and you and you And yes you too And oh yes, giving thanks for me too This thanks more...

Contains QuinineTonic water and Cuba...

SpeculationsPoetic speculations, (of a philosophical nature)...

WORDPLAYIf from sleep I awaken I'm alive If I never wake up again I'm dead - which however I cannot experience I think this is unfair and to off...

Angel of The SeaIt is to us forever our duty to relay With pride our tale of courage on the Isles that fateful day. September 1838 she battled through the storm...

All we need is love)))Just wanted to wish Happy 2022 to all our poets! stay safe, healthy, loving and loved ones))...

Why??Why I always keep trying every single time avoiding the bitterness of giving up on love. No one has to pay for the previous person who hurt you...

My eyes are brown not blueI think I was in 7th grade when I wrote this poem. I always wanted to have blue eyes I always thought they were so pretty. But I knew I was beautiful...

Beautiful Me!I am simple yet complicated with an intellectual soul yearning to be understood and not easily forgotten. I am a person who appreciates different p...

THE PERSIAN PETARDIn a Tehran hotel I asked for a room “a small one if possible please” A young man with keys escorted me up a couple of flights selected a door and...

CREDULIBILITYl am informed that our sun’s journey will take umpteen to-the-power-of-umpteen millennia to reach the ‘constellation of Hercules’ which will ha...

SAFE CONFESSIONHear the greatest cretin in existence who has taught himself Want not Have Purpose not Gratitude who has longed for Other not Here Then no...

26/26Yes I'm bored but managed it :)...

Yvonne poemFor Yvonne...

See the SeaLoss of freedom is the single most important fight we have today, this written in tears for all humanity suffering tyrannical control of their freedom...

THE WORDThe category will have to suffice !...

13/26Competition, who can write the longest sequence of rhyme using only one entry per time per letter in the alphabet. e.g. collide and cried is not allow...

SIDEWARDSI once kept a crab as a pet but had not yet chosen its name I wished to teach it how to speak or at least emit a small squeak So finally we...

HOMELESS ORPHANTomorrow ever full of hope can never be for it has no place on earth yet dwells somewhere ‘twixt dream and expectation It has no being t...