Day #8, Free Verse, because I wanna!

Definition of Free Verse

Free Verse is a form of Poetry composed of either rhymed or unrhymed lines that have no set fixed metrical pattern. The early 20th-century poets were the first to write what they called "free verse" which allowed them to break from the formula and rigidity of traditional poetry. The poetry of Walt Whitman provides many illustrations of Free Verse including his poem "Song of Myself".

Magic Made Here

There is magic made here and

I forget too soon

that I have left no room

for it. My mind has filled

to overflow with worries

and silly things and 

so I build these towers 

but do not see.

He takes a train and counts them out

One. Two. Three. Four.

His plump little hand slowly rolls the cars

carefully through each giant tunnel

I see the excitement in his smile

So slow, so reverent.

So absolutely two, so absolutely right.

There is magic here.

The trains race through these giant tunnels

so tall and the wandering ant

has everything at a standstill

because the engine is afraid

and Charlie grins, Uh Oh!

Whoo whoo and he giggles and the frightened train 

slowly begins again and continues through

always looking behind for the feared ant

and suddenly I feel the surge of it,

the way my stomach lurches when we 

go under the tunnel because it is so tall

but not so sturdy and any moment it could fall

and like falls smokey air wafting in the wind

the tingle of  danger, of adventure and magic find me.