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Kids Free Verse Poems

These Kids Free Verse poems are examples of Free Verse poems about Kids. These are the best examples of Free Verse Kids poems written by international poets.

Night Terrors

Running down Chicago Ave barefoot brain buzzing hymns and static, neon crucifix blinking above a bodega, the gospel of smoke and piss, all-night diner flickering...

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Categories: allegory, allusion, america, angel,

I See You America

Down that back road 
that heads out of town
across the railroad tracks
past the water treatment plant

in a mobile home park 
where howling dogs are
hooked with...

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Categories: poverty,

Mental Terror

Mental Terror

Man is born to be a man. God created this principle
God created his image. His image. The human
Intelligence, free will, imagination, and the ability...

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Categories: fate, life,

Rhymes Part 2

Well, the FED was in. A light. Dude, he ing didn't die. His brain came out, but he ing was fly as  came up...

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Categories: age, appreciation, baseball, deep,

Like Inmates at Asylums

     How ironic to see ‘chain gangs’
       in elementary schools now

    ...

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Categories: children, fear, irony, school,

regret your vote

do you feel regret?
regret for your vote?
Do you feel remorse?
realizing you're a minority too?
we stole this land, now the original inhibitors are in camps.
this country...

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Categories: political,

The Coat

Long ago in Littleton, when just a little lad                ...

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Categories: best friend, dog, memory,

My Bestfriend

A Stranger, My Friend,
My Obsession, My Puppy,
My Best Friend, My Husband,
My Soulmate, My Heart,
My Soul, My Love,
My Dream, My World,
My Husband,My Joker,
My Handsome, My Life

This...

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Categories: anger, anxiety, best friend,

Happiness Is Simple

Happiness is really simple
I get up in the evening
My wife and I having coffee
Having dinner with the kids
And I go to work in the Call...

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Categories: happiness, simple, work,

Hey Alex

Hey Alex you were just a number
Used and abused into a slumber
All those tours hoping you would blunder 
Slicing your brain like a cucumber

No Gordon...

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Categories: depression, mental health, mental

I used to know

I used to know
But not so much anymore
Hold the door
Don’t hold the door
Say “Good Morning”
Or say nothing
Lest I commit
A micro-aggression

I used to think outside the...

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Categories: humor, kid, pets,

Keep On Believing


I met you many years ago – in a church
where we were learning to be more than kids,
more than just our parent’s mistakes,
more than little...

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Categories: blessing, deep, forgiveness, friendship,

God, Forgive Me If You're There

Sometimes I wonder if anyone
Truly believes in a God–
A Greater Being, typically benevolent 
Who watches + waits + whispers. 
Sometimes I wonder if everyone
Clings to...

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Categories: conflict, god, religion, writing,

Within Without

Day and night
Over my years
I watch
This full owl body carved from the light
Of wood
With its slimly painted feathers and howling eyes 

Held in swooping flight
At...

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Categories: appreciation, beauty, children, creation,

Dirt Driveways

Dirt Driveways

Who knew that dirt driveways lead to happy homes?
That Prince Charming’s white horse is really a black BMW.
That our kingdom would consist of his,...

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Categories: family, relationship, romantic, true