Day 8 ~ How to Write a “Free Verse Poem” for “30 Poems in 30 Days” #NationalPoetryMonth

OK, so today we are going abandon all those “rules” and formulas” and create a poem about anything or anyone that you choose. Whatever resonates with you. Today . . . we are going to write a poem in “free verse.”  

I thought I would briefly address the difference between “blank verse” and “free verse.” Blank Verse is generally unrhymed verse BUT it has a rather detailed fixed metrical pattern. I don’t plan to go into that today. Whereas Free Verse is more random, with NO fixed metrical pattern of any kind and no need to rhyme although you are welcome to and it doesn’t need to be any systematic pattern of rhyming if you even choose to use rhyme – no need to count syllables or to worry about much of anything – just let it come. But free verse is actually tricky to make it flow, but once you get it just how you want it – you will be happy with it.

Here’s one I wrote a couple of years ago ~ (we are having a family reunion this weekend; so FUN, but no time for writing new poems). Cheers!! Having said that, how about you?  What will you write about?

HOPE

Hope creates options.

It still can happen.

In fact, anything CAN happen.

Hope is what we cling to.

I hope I am doing enough.

I hope people understand the purity of my motives.

I hope my family will all be together in the hereafter.

Why do I have hope?

Because I believe what Christ said when He came.

I believe He really did die for our sins and that

through the atonement of Christ

and the power of the resurrection;

I can be raised up unto life eternal with my loved ones.

That is what I hope for.

And because I have hope

. . . I keep trying.

                © 2015 Stephanie Abney

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