Life Free Verse Poems

Nail walking down the street
Carrying a bagful to fix something
For the master who owns my dreaming
Storefronts lolling sidewalks asleep
Night quiet jazz, Erie, PA
The endless road...

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naked mattress

 the naked mattress seemed more abandoned
 than on nights gone by
 when european percale sheets
 lifted like a kite from the corners
 as...

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Did you ever open up a poem
And know that it was for you?
Those are the ones that you
Wished you wrote
But the words were taken long
Before...

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The thought of losing you has left me insane.
The idea of you not being in my life has made me weak.
I know distance and time...

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For thirty years, I was lost, empty and devoid of purpose.
I surmised I would never thrive, deprived of love. 
Bereft of all that is good...

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Sometimes it seems as if life is a milderness of mirrors,
the mirror being how you appear in someone's eyes
I can tell when someone just doesn't...

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What’s stopping you
From being the person
Who you want to be
In this crazy world
That we all live in?

What’s stopping you
From reaching the mountain top
To complete every...

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Missing heart

Missing life,  missing situations, missing lady
Following my dream. Follows me. Love of love

There is no heart in my chest. An empty, dead body
Vultures...

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I threw a penny down a wishing well
But I didn’t make a wish
I was returning a wish
I had been holding onto this penny for awhile
Thinking...

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"Absence makes the love grow"
    Absence grows love?
              ...

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Heavily guarded heart, 
wearily navigating life.
Like a fugitive,
invariably primed,
for that final day,
to be discovered,
apprehended, 
imprisoned eternally. 
Snapping shut like a bear trap,
only able to be...

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He watched them walk by

Many scurried 

People from all walks of life

He looked at them and he saw them

Yet no-one looked at him and no-one...

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  ~ The shadows are colorless - a deeper meaning ~ quote by poet

  A butterfly gathers its wings in melancholy
  it...

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"For the ones you choose to have around you will either build an empire or set your dreams afire"

"Pushing onward is a difficult mountain to...

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Private Life

Green room, open window, open air
Life, beach, mine, cool life

There is no ocean, but life is private
Hidden in life, there is no 

Respection
Respected
Private life

Life
Killed
Dead

Dark...

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