Tag: #freeverse

• Our Hidden Heart

  Inside our heart hides another heart,not bigger or better,just another,and another within that,just in case.Each stands readyto spring forward and fill the voidwhen, not if,the first one breaks, when hope…

• In the Chattering

  In The ChatteringBreeze-blown leaves semaphore a coming storm,flashing their light green backsides while downtown streets start chattering with arrhythmic raindrops, nature’s morse code, its discordant beat a metrical muse embraced…

• Wind and Bear

  Wind and BearThe woods are tricky —a puckish mazeof mesmerizing beautypunctuated by thickets of fear,where pines turn windinto words known onlyto their roots,and a choir of leavesexhale names of thosewho…

• What the BBC Could Not Have Known

  What the BBC Could Not Have KnownBBC News, March 29, 2024: Limpopo, South Africa: Girl, 8, only survivor as 45 killed in bus crash A wrong turnsent a bus spiraling…

• War Wears Two Faces

  War Wears Two FacesThe day after the warthey packed the bombs in boxesrecalled drones to their nestssummoned tanks to silence their turrets and come crawling backRefugees returned home to find…