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Most recently submitted Free Verse Poems

Poetry
By EleanorRigby PLATINUM
New York City, New York

I am from infinite summer rains, From wrong assumptions. I’m from red ants and sand being Blown in the air. I am from “kooshai” and corn flakes That became soggy when I...
EleanorRigby PLATINUM, New York City, New York
28 articles 3 photos 53 comments

Favorite Quote:
"The optomist proclaims we live in the best of worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true." - James Branch Cabell


Poetry
By Kitti-Chan PLATINUM
Wichita, Kansas
Kitti-Chan PLATINUM, Wichita, Kansas
22 articles 0 photos 12 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Accept what you can't change. Change what you can't accept."

Lacey10991 BRONZE, Sandwich, Massachusetts
3 articles 0 photos 0 comments
Poetry
By DCWHAT28 SILVER
Algonquin, Illinois
DCWHAT28 SILVER, Algonquin, Illinois
7 articles 0 photos 9 comments
Poetry
By AshleyZ SILVER
Oxford, Connecticut
AshleyZ SILVER, Oxford, Connecticut
8 articles 0 photos 0 comments
Poetry
By Anonymous
clareace-g BRONZE, Newark, Delaware
1 article 0 photos 4 comments

Favorite Quote:
"holding onto anger is like holding onto a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one that gets burned" -- Buddha

Poetry
By Alice28 GOLD
Somewhere Over The Rainbow, Oregon
Alice28 GOLD, Somewhere Over The Rainbow, Oregon
13 articles 0 photos 26 comments

Favorite Quote:
Its hard to defeat someone...who never gives up.

Poetry
By Rainyday65 BRONZE
Mt. Laurel, New Jersey
Rainyday65 BRONZE, Mt. Laurel, New Jersey
3 articles 0 photos 0 comments
ladymonster GOLD, Eau Claire, Wisconsin
12 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
The vastest things are those we may not learn.
We are not taught to die, nor to be born,
Nor how to burn
With love.
How pitiful is our enforced return
To those small things we are the masters of.
--Mervyn Peake