Free Verse Poetry
Published on Nov 23, 2015
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Sunday Night Meltdown
Suddenly remembering
(on Sunday night)
that I have homework
due Monday morning.
The end of my weekend,
like the end of a Popsicle:
instead of one last lick --
a taste of stick.
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FOG
THE fog comes
on little cat feet.
It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.
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Fantasy or Life
So often you say you love me,
Yet you seemingly don't know
I cannot live in fantasy's fog,
Always in the blurred drug of dreams.
I need the clear, crisp light
Found in reality's realm of day,
Not the darkness of mere existence.
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Disappointments
Every life has a room
where memories are stored:
A box of special occasions here,
Shelves of shared laughter there.
But back in the shadows
Lurks a trunk locked tight,
Not to be opened and searched.
There hide disappointments
Which darken every heart.
Photo by [AndreasS]
Winter poem
once a snowflake fell
on my brow and i loved
it so much and i kissed
it and it was happy and called its cousins
and brothers and a web
of snow engulfed me then
i reached to love them all
and i squeezed them and they became
a spring rain and i stood perfectly
still and was a flower
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Robert Frost commented that writing free verse was like "playing tennis without a net."
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Free verse poetry invents and follows its own forms, patterns, and rules.
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"If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry."
-Emily Dickinson
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Billy Collins, Mary Oliver, Robert Frost, Naomi Shihab Nye, Langston Hughes, William Carlos Williams, William E. Stafford, Linda Pastan, , Seamus Heaney
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Pablo Neruda, Nikki Giovanni, John Updike, and Elizabeth Bishop
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Begin writing your own free verse poem.
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Remember the Power of I
First person experiences require a first person. Make sure your I is present and is thinking, feeling, seeing, acting. Give your reader someone to be with. Find your voice as a poet. Wave your I flag in your poetry.
-Nancie Atwell
-Nancie Atwell
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