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Brown Girl Dreaming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as free-verse)
avg rating 4.15 — 94,584 ratings — published 2014
Inside Out & Back Again (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as free-verse)
avg rating 4.12 — 68,491 ratings — published 2011
The Crossover (ebook)
by (shelved 35 times as free-verse)
avg rating 4.21 — 71,546 ratings — published 2014
Long Way Down (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as free-verse)
avg rating 4.24 — 142,432 ratings — published 2017
Out of the Dust (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as free-verse)
avg rating 3.77 — 80,596 ratings — published 1997
Booked (The Crossover, #2)
by (shelved 23 times as free-verse)
avg rating 4.17 — 20,163 ratings — published 2016
Starfish (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as free-verse)
avg rating 4.42 — 37,717 ratings — published 2021
House Arrest (House Arrest, #1)
by (shelved 20 times as free-verse)
avg rating 4.16 — 17,037 ratings — published 2015
Odder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as free-verse)
avg rating 4.21 — 17,102 ratings — published 2022
Clap When You Land (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as free-verse)
avg rating 4.22 — 111,626 ratings — published 2020
Burned (Burned, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as free-verse)
avg rating 4.25 — 71,764 ratings — published 2006
Crank (Crank, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as free-verse)
avg rating 4.16 — 157,315 ratings — published 2004
The Poet X (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 17 times as free-verse)
avg rating 4.36 — 145,136 ratings — published 2018
Alone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as free-verse)
avg rating 4.13 — 23,758 ratings — published 2021
Love That Dog (Jack, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as free-verse)
avg rating 4.05 — 48,984 ratings — published 2001
Red, White, and Whole (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as free-verse)
avg rating 4.40 — 8,230 ratings — published 2021
Rebound (The Crossover, #0.5)
by (shelved 15 times as free-verse)
avg rating 4.30 — 14,366 ratings — published 2018
Solo (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 15 times as free-verse)
avg rating 3.93 — 13,836 ratings — published 2017
Identical (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as free-verse)
avg rating 4.29 — 67,721 ratings — published 2008
Impulse (Impulse, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as free-verse)
avg rating 4.25 — 83,219 ratings — published 2007
Garvey's Choice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as free-verse)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,946 ratings — published 2016
Unbound: A Novel in Verse (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as free-verse)
avg rating 4.17 — 3,796 ratings — published 2016
Before the Ever After (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as free-verse)
avg rating 4.17 — 16,412 ratings — published 2020
Other Words for Home (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 12 times as free-verse)
avg rating 4.40 — 35,389 ratings — published 2019
The Red Pencil (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as free-verse)
avg rating 3.90 — 7,475 ratings — published 2014
May B. (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as free-verse)
avg rating 3.84 — 6,325 ratings — published 2012
Locomotion (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as free-verse)
avg rating 4.02 — 7,464 ratings — published 2003
Chasing Brooklyn (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as free-verse)
avg rating 4.08 — 8,439 ratings — published 2009
What My Mother Doesn't Know (What My Mother Doesn't Know #1)
by (shelved 12 times as free-verse)
avg rating 3.83 — 14,697 ratings — published 2001
Full Cicada Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as free-verse)
avg rating 4.30 — 6,274 ratings — published 2015
Heartbeat (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as free-verse)
avg rating 3.95 — 10,494 ratings — published 2004
Make Lemonade (Make Lemonade, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as free-verse)
avg rating 3.69 — 11,080 ratings — published 1993
I Heart You, You Haunt Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as free-verse)
avg rating 3.84 — 13,879 ratings — published 2008
Glass (Crank, #2)
by (shelved 11 times as free-verse)
avg rating 4.29 — 75,557 ratings — published 2007
Hate That Cat (Jack, #2)
by (shelved 11 times as free-verse)
avg rating 3.93 — 11,161 ratings — published 2008
Lifeboat 12 (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 10 times as free-verse)
avg rating 4.16 — 5,523 ratings — published 2018
Moo (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as free-verse)
avg rating 3.86 — 10,874 ratings — published 2016
One (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as free-verse)
avg rating 4.16 — 22,956 ratings — published 2015
All the Blues in the Sky (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as free-verse)
avg rating 4.40 — 4,194 ratings — published 2025
Shout (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as free-verse)
avg rating 4.24 — 22,408 ratings — published 2019
Forget Me Not (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as free-verse)
avg rating 3.91 — 16,035 ratings — published 2017
Serafina's Promise (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as free-verse)
avg rating 4.03 — 2,523 ratings — published 2013
Home of the Brave (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as free-verse)
avg rating 4.25 — 13,323 ratings — published 2007
Louder Than Hunger (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as free-verse)
avg rating 4.40 — 8,717 ratings — published 2024
The Canyon's Edge (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as free-verse)
avg rating 4.19 — 9,377 ratings — published 2020
Punching the Air (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as free-verse)
avg rating 4.39 — 24,376 ratings — published 2020
White Rose (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as free-verse)
avg rating 3.95 — 5,627 ratings — published 2019
Swing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as free-verse)
avg rating 3.90 — 7,173 ratings — published 2018
Tilt (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as free-verse)
avg rating 4.19 — 18,724 ratings — published 2012
Hidden (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as free-verse)
avg rating 3.92 — 6,260 ratings — published 2011
“Leaches Ten Tall by Stewart Stafford
Don't play this game with me,
Predatory whelk of tide pools,
Taint me as Rigoletto to a bawd,
Floundering florist to my bee.
Devotion twisted to a changeling,
Now a jealous twin in the shadows,
From dancing partner to judge;
Delicate consensus to harshest critic.
Slice of cold shoulder sandwich,
Sup the chalice of icy comfort,
Not snowfall on Christmas morn,
Oaken boards trodden in a manger.
© 2025, Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.”
―
Don't play this game with me,
Predatory whelk of tide pools,
Taint me as Rigoletto to a bawd,
Floundering florist to my bee.
Devotion twisted to a changeling,
Now a jealous twin in the shadows,
From dancing partner to judge;
Delicate consensus to harshest critic.
Slice of cold shoulder sandwich,
Sup the chalice of icy comfort,
Not snowfall on Christmas morn,
Oaken boards trodden in a manger.
© 2025, Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.”
―
“Darling,
I'm sorry but,
I’m going back to home.
To myself!
I realized,
Home is not the place I live in,
It is not where you are,
It is not somewhere in the world
Waiting for me to arrive but,
Home is wherever I am,
Home is within me.
It’s just been a really long time,
I’m going back to home.
To myself!”
― The Forest of Feelings
I'm sorry but,
I’m going back to home.
To myself!
I realized,
Home is not the place I live in,
It is not where you are,
It is not somewhere in the world
Waiting for me to arrive but,
Home is wherever I am,
Home is within me.
It’s just been a really long time,
I’m going back to home.
To myself!”
― The Forest of Feelings
