If you’re looking for a way to celebrate National Poetry Month in the classroom, free verse poems are a great place to start. Unlike standard poetry, free verse poems break rules and don’t have to rhyme or follow any specific meter. Since themes of nature, love, and life are often represented, free verse poems provide plenty of opportunities to teach students how to analyze poetry. Check out our list of 51 of the best free verse poems for the classroom below!
(Note: Every classroom is different, so please be sure to review these poems before sharing to ensure they align with your learning environment.)
“Or did it follow me?”
“You can make mountains …”
“It sits looking …”
“A touch of cold in the Autumn night …”
“beside the white chickens …”
“I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox …”
“That perches in the soul …”
“It was taken some time ago.”
“I have walked through many lives, some of them my own …”
“The first step, I say, aw’d me and pleas’d me so much …”
“Each day we go about our business …”
“I play the egg / and I play the triangle …”
“Waves, undulating waves, liquid, uneven, emulous waves …”
“My rhymes no longer shall stand arrayed …”
“What happens to a dream deferred?”
“here is the deepest secret nobody knows …”
“Winter kept us warm, covering …”
“i still don’t know / how you got it through the door …”
“There is a silence where no sound may be …”
“I cover you with my net.”
“The apparition of these faces …”
“Of the pine trees crusted with snow …”
“But still, like dust, I’ll rise.”
“And then the day came …”
“The stand of trees, the dignity …”
“Sundays too my father got up early …”
“We stop at the dry cleaners and the grocery store …”
“Stay, I said to the spider …”
“Everywhere you will go somewhere …”
“Some words are open …”
“Upon the glazen shelves kept watch …”
“I, too, sing America.”
“Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.”
“Softly, in the dusk, a woman is singing to me …”
“Sometimes in the evening when love / tunes its harp and the crickets …”
“Sing! Can we not sing …”
“The tide is full, the moon lies fair …”
“luscious the little / lame balloonman …”
“nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals …”
“If you open up any atlas …”
“For he is the tribe of Tiger.”
“A father being not just a father …”
“I am a roller coaster of emotions.”
“My stomach does somersaults …”
“It’s had tacks in it …”
“Singing ghost songs …”
“all the singing is in the tops of the trees …”
“A man crosses the street in rain …”
“Honey is scarce these days …”
“Nature does not have / a lost and found table / for summer feathers …”
“I never make mistakes / I’m quite meticulous.”
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