Metaphor Free Verse Poems

Echo of distant cries,
quadruped steps deepening into dusk—
wind folding the earth’s breath.
Craftsman of the spider web,
seas of lightning possessing the sky.

Guardian of the other side,
conceiver...

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Turned away 
Unable to withdraw
Turned towards
Unable to get close
Invisible forces in action
Unable to resist
Despite desperate intentions
Always unable
To resist your magnetism...

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The unknown fate of the caterpillar
Will it be butterfly or moth
Beauty or disgust
The caterpillar doesn't know
While it spins is cocoon
And begins it's compulsory service
Waiting and...

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The plastic bottle on the path 
Begging to be picked up
Countless thousands ignore it
Leaving it for the next 
To come along 

Suddenly it's not ignored
A...

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     Footsteps in the sand
      Tsunamis of dreams
       waves of...

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In 2013 Amélie Ségarra danced on a Grand Piano with knives 
taped to the tips of her feet.
The room is empty apart from a single...

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Demigirl Definition
A space between
Androgyny and conventional binaries of female identity
A gender not recognized by mainstream policies
And subjected to the far corners of the Q+ community...

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Words dance across the canvas of my mind,
Brushstrokes of meaning, colors of sound.
In poetry's rhythm, art is defined—
Where image and language are forever bound.

The painter speaks in textures, light, and shade,
The poet paints with metaphor and rhyme.
Both cast their visions that will never fade,
Standing defiant against the rush of time.

A sonnet blooms like petals on display,
A portrait captures silence between breaths.
Each stanza and stroke has something to say
Of beauty that outlives a thousand deaths.

In galleries of verse and painted dreams,
We find ourselves reflected in the streams....

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In the storm of my mind,
You were my quiet yearning.
Nothing to hold onto, nothing to chase,
Nobody can adjust to this phase.

Do not claim the jargon...

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My Blood, Polluted

My Face, Masked

My Name, Silenced

Inferiority, My master

Adaptation, My Inheritance

Assimilation, My Friend...

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Stolen and re-rooted here,
We can no longer be as 
Their virgin forest—
Raped and impregnated
By heirs of  their slavery,
And rechained with infertile
Emancipation ejaculations:-

With this climax,
Need...

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Welcome.
I'm the one they left behind.
An alter ego of sorts—
just the keeper, the inventory clerk,
interim ghost.

New items arrive every day—
spat out from my boss's pockets,
sometimes...

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In the wilderness of mirrors,
light unravels,  names forget themselves, 
   ghosts slither between shards.

her maundering gaze ~ branches bleeding black~
finds the noir...

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The recorder clicks on.

What made you stay?

I didn’t stay.
I fastened.
I was made to fasten.
And if you're made to fasten,
you look for something moving.
Something strong enough
to...

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Today, I mapped out the tears of crying.
I tried to explain how the storms of tears inside me exhaust the efforts I’ve been growing, to...

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