Poems about Free verse

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child sprung from
the two of us — showing

by Stephane Mallarme 22 lines, 1 comment
Go Down Death

(A Funeral Sermon)

by James Weldon Johnson 91 lines, 1 comment
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, 4 comments
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
Listen Lord A Prayer

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

by James Weldon Johnson 52 lines, 1 comment
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
A Portrait in Georgia

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

by Jean Toomer 7 lines
On Woman's Dress

I'm awful hard on dress, you know.
Women, you forget

by Sojourner Truth 42 lines
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
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
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
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
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
The Hymn Of Man

I was,
And I am.

by Khalil Gibran 51 lines
On Getting A Natural (For Gewndolyn Brooks)

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

by Dudley Randall 23 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
Love and War

Lovers all are soldiers, and Cupid has his campaigns:
I tell you, Atticus, lovers all are soldiers.

by Ovid 47 lines
The Rhetoric of Langston Hughes

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

by Margaret Danner 12 lines
At The Carnival

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

by Anne Spencer 53 lines
For Jim, Easter Eve

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

by Anne Spencer 25 lines
Morning

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

by Ovid 46 lines
Duplicity

Then must I always bear your endless accusations?

by Ovid 63 lines
Gary Indiana

In Gary
The Mills

by Frank Marshall Davis 83 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
Sound

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

by Helen de Guerry Simpson 9 lines
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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