Poems about Free verse

• A Tear And A Smile

  I would not exchange the sorrows of my heart
  For the joys of the multitude.

  by Khalil Gibran 0 lines, 7 comments
• One (translated in english)

  child sprung from
  the two of us — showing

  by Stephane Mallarme 22 lines, 1 comment
• Love in the afternoon

  It was very hot. The day had gone just past its noon.
  I'd stretched out on a couch to take a nap.

  by Ovid 27 lines, 2 comments
• Listen Lord A Prayer

  O Lord, we come this morning
  Knee-bowed and body-bent

  by James Weldon Johnson 52 lines, 1 comment
• A Visit From Wisdom

  In the stillness of night Wisdom came and stood
  By my bed. She gazed upon me like a tender mother

  by Khalil Gibran 74 lines
• Letter To My Sister

  It is dangerous for a woman to defy the gods;
  To taunt them with the tongue's thin tip,

  by Anne Spencer 26 lines
• The Profile on the Pillow

  After our fierce loving
  in the brief time we found to be together,

  by Dudley Randall 16 lines, 2 comments
• Green Apples

  What can you do with a woman under thirty?
  It's true she has a certain freshness, like a green apple,

  by Dudley Randall 17 lines, 5 comments
• A Poet Is Not a Jukebox

  A poet is not a jukebox, so don’t tell me what to write.
  I read a dear friend a poem about love, and she said,

  by Dudley Randall 66 lines
• A Portrait in Georgia

  Hair-braided chestnut,
  coiled like a lyncher's rope,

  by Jean Toomer 7 lines
• Disappointment

  But oh, I suppose she was ugly; she wasn't elegant;
  I hadn't yearned for her often in my prayers.

  by Ovid 85 lines, 1 comment
• On Getting A Natural (For Gewndolyn Brooks)

  She didn't know she was beautiful,
  though her smiles were dawn,

  by Dudley Randall 23 lines
• The Hymn Of Man

  I was,
  And I am.

  by Khalil Gibran 51 lines
• Black Love

  Black love, provide the adequate electric
  for what is lapsed and lenient in us now.

  by Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks 44 lines
• Symphonies

  The red-gold sun
  

  by Esther Popel 75 lines
• At The Carnival

  Gay little Girl-of-the-Diving-Tank,
  I desire a name for you,

  by Anne Spencer 53 lines
• The Rhetoric of Langston Hughes

  While some "rap" over this turmoil
  of who was Blackest first

  by Margaret Danner 12 lines
• Morning

  Already over the sea from her old spouse she comes,
  the blonde goddess whose frosty wheels bring day.

  by Ovid 46 lines
• For Jim, Easter Eve

  If ever a garden was Gethsemane,
  with old tombs set high against

  by Anne Spencer 25 lines
• Duplicity

  
  Then must I always bear your endless accusations?

  by Ovid 63 lines
• Poem for South African Women

  Our own shadows disappear as the feet of thousands
  by the tens of thousands pound the fallow land

  by June Jordan 39 lines
• Gary Indiana

  In Gary
  The Mills

  by Frank Marshall Davis 83 lines
• Sound

  A length of gut whereon the horsehairs whine,
  The tapping of a hammer on a string,

  by Helen de Guerry Simpson 9 lines, 1 comment
• Movement

  A winding movement on the slope beside the rapids of the river.
  The abyss at the stern, The swiftness of the incline,

  by Arthur Rimbaud 56 lines

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