Free Verse Poems (29,546)

Heaven
It is a place we all want to go
I asked a priest once
When I die is it a long trip toward the bright light of heaven?
He said no
When you die it will be revealed to you
What you could not see, you will see
But
You have to remember
Heaven is not a place
It is God
I think of this conversation from time to time
Who is my heaven?
Who are the people who have made me happy?
I think if we can do that
Bring happiness to the people we meet
We can be angels on earth
And be heaven for others

It is evening now.
And the cold wind blows away
The words from my lips
I cannot distract my mind
From thinking.
Once upon a time
In my old house
There lived a man,
Who was a part of me .
He lived as many summers
As many winters I did .
And we were called WE...
WE cannot be found now
In the crowd
Anymore.
When winter comes
All that happened before
Is happening again.
As if the calendar has all the numbers
Backwards,
The watch stops
And the time do not run at all .
Have you heard how time sounds?
How does it sing?
And how silent it can be
For centuries?
He lived as many summers
As many winters I did. .
And we were called We...

Is anything slow anymore
A slow day a slow way
A feeling of belonging to a place and time
Now try to rest your mind

In the land of milk and honey
Is there anybody
Somebody who can tell me for sure
Is anything slow anymore

Sunrise sunset fast train fast jet
And the newsman reports the news faster than you can place a bet
That everything is going down the drain
People don't even know your name

Now it's digital preplanned programmed
Life has become just a scam
And here am I
Wondering who I am

We use to live on less
Now we can't live on more
Now time is faster than regret will it ever be like before
Is anything slow anymore

Her hair was tied back as she jogged along
She looked at me as I drove away
Her blonde hair shinning in the sun I'm dreaming as I drive on
And it seems so right that a beautiful girl goes along with a beautiful day

A couple miles down the road my mirror looks so bare
But the memory is going to stay
And it seems so right
That a beautiful girl goes along with a beautiful day

Her eyes must have been blue
Cause the sky above is filled with that kind of love
How she could change the month of march to the month of may
Yes a beautiful girl goes along with a beautiful day

I don't like the numbness in my brain
I don't like the poverty in my name
Destiny was never here
And I could never tell where

No vibe to guide no wave to ride
No choice but to collide with pain
And the sound that's mine to cry
It always sounded the same

From a poor boy to a poor man
In a poor land where the wind carried me like the sand
And between a rock a hard place is where I got caught
With no luck and nothing to add up pull on the reins and call it naught

After plowing ground I can turn around and see that very little grew
And the only change my hair is less my hair is gray my chances left are few
So write it down write it right write it wrong write a song
Just another dream another chance to sing another day has come and gone

I have thought long, and hard;-

And the most lovable things; in this world;-

Are horses, women, and dogs.


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take it as it comes
welcome happenstance
maybe you and I don't fit
normal notion circumstance

try to think outside the box
of forever a "next day"
perhaps then, we two can share
a happy life "come what may"

throw away the schedule
of the things you want to do
ride a wave of spontaneity
each moment will be new

get caught up in the tide
there are no lessons how
it only takes imagination
to be aswim in the now

if you choose to follow down
the road that I am on
never will be turning back
from now on, we'll be gone

when you've come to realize
just as I did, long ago
I'll see the answer in your eyes
it's off to our world we go

so, let me take you by the hand
we'll dance along a golden sand
of our eternal wonderland
without a single second planned

life will be a big surprise
we'll never set a goal
with every breaking sunrise
it's all beyond control

well....how 'bout it lady?
wanna take a ride?

“He who does not love does not know God,
for God is love” (1Jn 4:8).
“Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?
....For I am persuaded that neither death nor life..., shall
be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus
our Lord” (Rom 8:35-39).



Dear God,


You are my God and Father and I love you because you first, and always have, loved me.
I am not even sure that what I ‘feel’ for you is truly “LOVE”
(the way that love is supposed to be),
but I know that
YOU are LOVE
and all things good. It is because you love me
that you are kind, gracious, merciful, longsuffering and forgiving towards me.
There is no other like you.
You created me, sent Jesus to die for me, and gave me your Holy Spirit to live inside of me.
There is no doubt in my mind (even when you chastise me for my foolish ways), there is no doubt that
YOU LOVE ME.


Thank you Father.

SHAME

Hello you world leaders
Do you hear the knocking, yelling
and screaming from under ground
Shouting nay begging for your help

Little did they know, all on deaf ears,
their fears much worse than yours
in your shiny suits,
just counting the dead.

You are as bad as the bombers leader
who like a little boy sneer,s
Like a greedy boy, who takes what he wants
Whilst you sit and COUNT

Will shame ever catch up with you
In the future years when a land
is flat and has no young
All under tyrannical rule

Which make no bones
will turn on you
IN THE END

In my mind's eye, when I looked
at what should have been our "holding hands" ...
I saw that yours had silently released its hold ,
like mute falling pearls let go
from its strand of gold ...
Loved you too truly to make any demands ...
And understood you genuinely
to realize the why
that my heart understands ...

You told me,
maybe I should let you go ...
That maybe,
I should find somebody else to know ...
That after all, you're still too broken
to give committed affection with no reserve ...
Can't therefore love me the way I deserve ...

You have been the most I've connected with, though ..
Fit nearest perfect
intellectually, emotionally, and physically ...
As I look back tearfully ... sadly ...
Deep in me, I do know
it is something we can keep together
only if we work at it with one another ...

So eventually , I just as quietly set you free ...
If you ever come back when already you're mended.
that's entirely up to you ... not anymore me ...
And now, like a book in the midst of writing ,
I take my pause and lay it aside ...
Explore once more the experience of living ,
notwithstanding the challenges with which it is rife ,
To go out into the expanse and breathe in Life,
with all its joys and promise of all possible good ...
I look forward and onward to my just due...
As for love, I hope it will encompass that too ...