Category: Free Verse

Most everything that isn’t a haiku or tanka falls into this category lately. Subject to change, of course.

Under My Blankets

Carl Setzer

​Blanket to my chin

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p style=”font-family:"font-size:16px;”>Arms tucked underneath

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p style=”font-family:"font-size:16px;”>I resist motion

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p style=”font-family:"font-size:16px;”>Thinking of the fresh snow

Memories of Metal Shop 

Carl Setzer

​Sitting

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p style=”font-family:"”>Tall stool 

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p style=”font-family:"”>Metsl tsble 

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p style=”font-family:"”>Vice gripping 

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p style=”font-family:"”>My victim 

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p style=”font-family:"”>Bending 

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p style=”font-family:"”>Shaving

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p style=”font-family:"”>Scraping

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p style=”font-family:"”>Demanding 

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p style=”font-family:"”>It fit into 

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p style=”font-family:"”>My will.

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p style=”font-family:"”>Resistance

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p style=”font-family:"”>Solid

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p style=”font-family:"”>We find

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p style=”font-family:"”>Detente,

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p style=”font-family:"”>This soul

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p style=”font-family:"”>Longing

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p style=”font-family:"”>For the

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p style=”font-family:"”>Trees 

Ignorance Is Bliss?

Carl Setzer

Deer silently eat 

Wolfs eyes glistening

Ignorance is bliss?

A Sunday morning meditation for you. 

Thoughts, early Saturday morn

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​Going to sleep Friday

Tomorrow’s free morning

Ah, to wake leisurely!

My mind springs awake

Hours before dawn

This sadistic life

The Pain Of Choice

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It’s so easy to spin
Tumbling over, over
Losing my focus
In this maelstrom
Of possibility

For a choice requires
Leaving opportunity
Sitting in the sun
For another to grab.
What if that one
Is better than this one?
Too much of this
Is a table full of gifts
Where nothing is opened
And all potential
Evalotates into the day’s heat

Thursday Morning

Carl Setzer

​Slowly waking 

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p style=”font-family:"”>Against my will 

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p style=”font-family:"”>For life’s demands 

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p style=”font-family:"”>Cry out 

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The curse of inadequate coffee

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The curse of inadequate coffee
Obligingly sipped amidst family or coworkers
Eventually I will seek out a cafe of quality
Pastries accentuating the fragrance
Of fresh roasted delight

This Fitful Night

Carl Setzer

​Looking skyward

While dawn approaches

Waiting for this fitful night

To finally end

An Early Morning Poem

Carl Setzer

It is morning, I guess,

Bringing me wakefulness

Vigorously unwanted

Far too recently did I dive in

Seeking eight hours of rest

Obscenely cut short

By my restless mind

To those who brag about their generosity 

Carl Setzer

​The louder you shout 

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p style=”font-family:"”>Boldly proclaimed

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p style=”font-family:"”>”Generosity”

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p style=”font-family:"”>The more clearly I see the

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p style=”font-family:"”>Deception within your heart