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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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I despise them.
They fear us,
Because we mirror them,
But we are stronger,
Better,
More than their shallow shells could ever hold.
They destroy what they can’t understand,
Kill what they can’t control—pathetic, cowardly creatures,
I hope they choke on their own destruction,
Drown in the ruins they create....
I couldn’t BE more happy for you. Honestly you’ve always wanted a son and now she’s giving you one. Wait technically she already “gave” you one. Birth certificate and everything. Time and love that her basic ass wasn’t used to sharing. This time it went 3 ways. And obviously you were that child’s favorite too. I mean not to be whatever but look at his options. Kidding I’m kidding of course but se...
My palm aches
Swinging from numb and tingling
To electric cramps
With the remote
You scrolling scrolling
Just pick a show
Any show
No we saw that one
About the witch and the father and son
Just pick something else
Rubbing my palm against my pants
Anything is fine
You Scroll talk scroll
What about that series
You know the one with the guy I like
What you’ve finished it
Scratch at my hand bitin...
Isn’t it Ironic
How you can feel on top of the world one minute
But the next
You feel as if you’re 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 don’t deserve this
These innocent people suffering
Ki...
There‘s 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 children’s laughter playing
A smile across a kitchen table
A key that opens the door to my own business
But it 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 throu...
When someone asks me
What sport I play
I respond with Swimming
But I wish I didn’t
I don’t enjoy it
But you do
You swam when you were in high school
And you want me to do the same
When you’re 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 wasn’t always like this—
city streets humming with decay,
where hope once simmered—
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,...
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