Most Commented Free Verse Poems (29,539)

I have found you
As you found me
After so much searching
You was in that space
They call “Cyber”

And we spoke
By way of written words
So soft and gentle
And a bond was built
So quickly
That I could not understand
Where you had been hiding
For all of my past

Once again the sun shone
And the clouds of loneliness
Lifting before me
Made my sky “Oh so blue”
And my “Cyberspace”
Was now a world away
From the millions of others
Who sought their solace
In this cold
And unpredictable
Non- reality

And then you were gone
Without a parting word
Pulling that famous trick
Of “disappearing”
Before my very eyes
And the greatest
Show on earth
Would continue its journey
And I called you
My lost “Houdini”

Lightning, thunder and dark storms
Crown this God forsaken land
Just as the meadows
Once a landscape of blooms
Of butterflies and dandelions
Became a haven of the doomed

We walk, caped with fear
Worn from the deepest of our souls
Ill fated on the very day of our birth
We live to die, every second
For hatred and ingratitude
We are eternally consumed

But there is a way
Turn around and change
Hardened hearts be softened
Replace insults and arrogance
Into humility and repentance
I know we can, we truly can.

Let go our human frailty
Let us thrive and aspire humility
Inspire and raise our hands
Let us all join our brother's hand
Peace and love, joy and compassion
A beautiful life to be reckoned.

For each and all, we're brothers and sisters
With love and unity, forever, we should be
And this doomed and God forsaken land
Will once again, be our refuge and heaven.
Can we all join each other then
So peace, love, happiness is ours again....

Shall we?

Connected to pain.
Connected to loss.
Connected to sadness.
Connected to words that bind.
Disconnected from you.

I see you everywhere
And yet you're not there
Faces, places.....all have traces
The silhouette lines of my gazes
Misty steam, sunbeams, serene streams
Blue jeans, new scenes, sweet dreams
In clouds, shrouds, crowds
I often call your name out loud
Streetcars, glass jars, reflections from afar
In cars, bars, constellations in the stars
The outline of your hair,
Your profile haunts me as I stare
I see you everywhere
But you're not really there
I see you on the bus
And think of the two of us
I see you in a limousine
And realize it's just a daydream
I see you in a movie queue
Stop and prey....but that's not you
I see you everywhere.... I know
Because I still love you so
Memories that just....... won't let go.

Faded jeans cling to you
As you grin your silly grin
Your cotton blouse too
Displays your beauty again

A perkiness thats unique
Of a woman much younger
The child within you speaks
And the world is a wonder

Making cookies with your
Boisterous granddaughters
Shows all the very more
Your love for all that matters

With the laughter of a child
And the woman you have been
The sweetness of of your smile
Reveals the beauty within

A woman wise but tender
Compassionate and true
My heart can only surrender
And then give itself to you

For years her poem slept between
the pages of an old book in the
attic..
She loved me and I loved her but
something went wrong and we parted
For years I languished in guilt and
self doubt about what went went wrong
Time had blunted most of the hellish
pain that had ripped through my soul
in midnight hours
But still..the question of why had
lingered on..
I unfolded the poem which by now had
yellowed with time
It seemed a wiff of her perfume had emited
it's last aroma as I opened the neatly
folded paper
Her tears smugged the ink within the lines
of her soulful words
and this stained poem was her final
memorial to a love that had been choked
by the thorns of misunderstanding
She wrote in words of gentleness that make
me cry for the magic of her touch
What was I without her?
How could I have gone on so long when
the taste of her lips had awakened me
for a thousand nights
What can a man be..what can I be..without her
In dreams I fall upon her neck with kisses
of my soul
In day light I grieve for her dimond moons
There is no sun that can brighten my day
For she is the day of my heart
But where can she be now/
Who has stoled the preciousness of my heart
Bowed over I clutch this poem as a broken
Man
Sun rise has lost its meaning
Starlight is for the magic of another
All I have left are words of breathless
Sorrow
All that remains of me are shadows of
what could have been
All is gone
All I have are tears in the attic~

Drifting between Heaven and Earth
Images come of the first rebirth
Floating in serenity with eyes closed
Hanging on a sleep cliff slightly poised

Pictures passing through the mind
Of landscaped horizons so sublime
Mountains and forest in shades of gray
Shift and change scenes like in a play

Suddenly a forest of silhouetted black trees
Gradually disappearing all but one that I could see
One big familiar tree made my heart soar
The shaped leaves and branches I’d seen before

The Tree of Life appeared before my closed eyes
Transforming into another shape against the sky
One by one the branches faded slowly away
Leaving a glowing Cross as the only part to stay

Like a curtain in a play lowering it faded away
Separating consciousness from Heavens stage
Slowly drifting back to the earthly realm of life
Trying to absorb what had seen with closed eyes

The Tree of Life whose fruit imparts eternal life
Was the one fruit by God to man was denied
By partaking of the fruit man became mortal
Entrance to Eternity became a closed portal

The Cross brought us mercy and grace from this fall
For Christ became the new Tree of life for us all
Partaking of the fruit is no longer forbidden
For He paved a way for us to Eternal Heaven

Love forever eludes me perhaps because it flies on angelic wings
And yet my earth bound body is beneath the weight of gravity
Its like following a rainbow to an end I'll never see
Or like chasing the horizon as it falls away from me
Will I ever find that pot of gold and embrace a warm sunset
With my heart on sandy shores beneath a sky I won't forget
To become envious of the moon as it illuminates her face
Gently dancing across her skin as it adorns with utter grace
Then inhale the scent of beauty as her lips press next to mine
As I watch the midnight sky reflect inside her radiant eyes
and in her starry shade 
  Of dim and solitary loveliness
I learn’d the language of another world
That I've found deeply within a kiss

~ JJF ~

It was a gorgeous sunny day ...

On the day you passed away.

Suddenly, the day didn’t seem so nice anymore ...

I was feeling so hurt, down to my very core.

Since then I’ve thought of you, day in and day out ...

I just miss you so deeply, without a doubt.

There was a certain song playing on the day you died ...

The last time I heard that song, I broke down and cried.

I put more pictures of you on my wall to view ...

Sometimes it helps just to be able to look at you.

Other times the pictures make me feel sad ...

But the one with us laughing makes me feel glad.

how sweet indeed to love who we love
who we promise forever and never lasts
whom we cherish and offer our hearts
for always, never to end, we never part

we commit, we hope, we join our hands
we set the depths in our hearts and minds
that we will not betray nor look around
and condition ourselves forever bound

but sometimes, life becomes too much
we do make mistakes and why not
we are but humans and always err
but we always attempt to do better

well my friends, my sisters and brothers
today is the day we have to remember
to make our love show, enjoy each other
for today is a sweet valentine's day

and so life goes for us all to share
this sweet memorial to lover's day
for love is a love that is so sweet
so let's be happy then and celebrate

HAPPY VALENTINE'S TO ALL OF US
SINGLE OR PERHAPS NOT
IF YOU ARE WITH SOMEONE ENJOY
AND EVEN IF YOU ARE ALONE
STILL ENJOY. l LOVE YOU ALL.