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POEM STARTER
Write a free verse poem from the voice of someone who feels resentful.
Free verse poetry does not have a structured rhyme scheme, can have lines of irregular length, and does not have to keep to a regular meter.
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Isnât it Ironic
How you can feel on top of the world one minute
But the next
You feel as if youâre falling
Falling
Falling
Falling
Trying to hold on
Trying to hold on to the hope that just crushed into a million pieces
Trying to hold on to the life you knew
But will never know again
We donât deserve this
These innocent people suffering
Ki...
Thereâs a blade piercing my heart
And I keep pushing it deeper
I cannot let go
Of the handle
Lest you grip it
Again.
Hatred
Keeps my hands tied
My smile has faded
Since you tried
So hard to steal it.
I cannot even smile
When I look at the stars
The moon mocks me
With its ghostly light
As I rot in a prison
Made by you.
Your castle of bliss was built
With my bones as foundation.
Crushed by your ambi...
I wondered when it would happen for me
The endless array of clothes in closets
The sound of childrenâs laughter playing
A smile across the kitchenâs table
A key that opens the door to my own business
But this seems that these are things I am meant to hear about
Not experience
Witness but not enjoy
Each disappointment settles deeper in the growing darkness inside me
A darkness that thuds and echoes...
When someone asks me
What sport I play
I respond with Swimming
But I wish I didnât
I donât enjoy it
But you do
You swam when you were in high school
And you want me to do the same
When youâre working away in your office
Hidden away from the world
I never see you now
But only when I do swim
You come out to the light
Telling me what do to
Spending time with me at meets
Driving me to practice
The onl...
It wasnât always like thisâ
city streets humming with decay,
where hope once simmeredâ
now, a heavy silence sprawls,
clinging to corners,
the residue of a dream deferred.
Aluminum foil glints under the neon haze,
not a spark of hope, but a glimmer of despair,
minds lost in the endless chase for numbness,
caught in a loop with no end in sight.
I walk these streets, each step heavier than the last,...
Long the way study hard,
Hoping one day to show the talent.
I always thinking about contribute,
To bring more benefits for people.
The process is not easy I know,
Take the first step, no afraid.
My work is on track as the day goes on,
Very excited that night,
Canât wait to tell the world;
Many surprises,
Many blessings,
Feeling like on the mountaintop.
My discoveries are published,
Too many fake s...
I donât know what came first, chicken or egg
But once I feel like I owe this, it never tastes the same
It just feels like a taking
Even if there is so much to gain
Because the moment payment is late
(Rather it be weeks or days)
You see it in their face even as they say
â itâs okayâ
And suddenly I am angry
Don't you know I am doing my best?
I always have at least a portion
Iâll figure out ...
Sure, I would rather be awake than asleep
I would rather lay beneath the vast infinity of
The sky than
Beneath the peeing paint and
Faded glow-in-the-dark stars
(Dollar tree, of course)
Of my bedroom ceiling -
But someone has to act first, and itâs
Not going to be me.
Think of any Messiah,
Any Jesus Christ or
Greta Thunberg, I guess.
They ended up how?
Nails in palms,
Palms full of blo...
I gave you my everything,
But you left me with nothing
I gave you my everything
Yet you perceived it as nothing
I asked you for what was noble and true
But you gave me lies
I guess the devil gets his due
Because now you I despise
I came to you brokenâŚ
And Without a care
you shattered me
With no hope of repair
I asked for your presence
But you left me to escape uncomfortable feelings
As I f...
Swallowed embers lodge in my throat,
spewing acrid smoke with every breath.
Your apologies, like scattered ashes,
flutter uselessly on a barren breeze.
The past, a rusted anchor, drags me down,
chains forged in the fires of your mistakes.
My heart, a clenched fist, holds onto hurt,
a shard of jagged glass refusing to release.
Can forgiveness be coaxed from this rubble?
Can sunlight reach this ...
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