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What would my like be like?
By Anonymous, plant city, FL
My life goes on and still i wounder
what would it be like if i had a different life.
If my parents would have been different
What would my life be like?
If i was not taken away by S.S
what would my life be like.
Maybe i would still be living... (more »)
Subsection: Free Verse Poems
How Was School?
By Joseph P., Arlington Heights, IL
Amazing. Absolutely amazing.
I learned how to cure cancer and aced every test I took.
In fact, the teacher let me teach class because he said
I was the smartest in class, the whole class. To top it all off,
I found 5 dollars. Amazing.... (more »)
Subsection: Free Verse Poems
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Hooked
By Margaret H., Greensboro, NC
I feel
Like a fish out of water- scooped up
And plopped down again into the depths of a too-cold receptacle
(because my owners were too lazy to sit and let it oxidize)
I feel like gasping.
We buried our fish, Fredrick, in effigy.
Twisting... (more »)
Subsection: Free Verse Poems
Don't Worry Your Pretty Little Mind
Some people say love is just a mess
But I just say just wait til you’ve had the best
It’ll come when you least expect
Your introspect will flip
If you give me time I will explain
The heartache and pain will fade
I’ll be your aid
Just... (more »)
Subsection: Free Verse Poems
Swallowed by the Sea
By Jennifer C., Summerfield, NC
swells that rise
and grip me tighter
than my home did
I was swallowed
by the newborn sea,
suctioned into time:
sand trapped. (more »)
Subsection: Free Verse Poems
3rd Grade Science Teacher
By Jennifer C., Summerfield, NC
when I was nine I took a trip¬
across the big pond,
aboard a giant flying machine
my gaze fixated on passing
clusters of cotton candy clouds
I thought about Mrs. C
she told me gravity
would hold me down
as it held the rest.
she... (more »)
Subsection: Free Verse Poems
Wild Flowers
By Jennifer C., Summerfield, NC
Blindly they entertwined
around an old stump
deeply rooted
and not yet ready to degrade
they clung tightly
to the shrill memory of life
and then they were plucked
from the soil by bare hands
still soft enough
to distinguish petals... (more »)
Subsection: Free Verse Poems
As You Lay Behind Me
Silence makes the heart grow fonder,
Creating thoughts that need no launder.
Pure is the warm touch of the man
That in the stillness always lands
Between her fingers, yet gripping the heart.
The quiet leaves the thoughts to part,
But steady... (more »)
Subsection: Free Verse Poems
Woman In Love
Fallen rose petals stain the sidewalk
A faded blood red
Scattered upon
A path
Paced many times over by
A woman
Whose name only parts the lips of
Her suitor
She does not live in shame
But solely in the joys of the truest love
And in... (more »)
Subsection: Free Verse Poems











