how do you write a free verse poem?

Answer 1

"Free verse" doesn't mean that you're free to do anything you want. If you're not careful, what you'll have is poetic prose. There should be poetic devices, for example: meter, metaphors, alliteration, etc. You don't need to use all of them, but just because a person sets up a series of lines doesn't make it a poem. You can even have internal rhyme in free verse, but you don't have a pattern of rhyme.

Answer 2

There are various ways of doing this. I'm not going to go as far as saying "it's free verse so anything goes" as some would. As the previous responder said, there have to be reasons for your choice of lines breaks, etc. You might want to look at various "manifestos" -- various poets and schools of poets had different ideas about what made really good free verse, Charles Olson and the Black Mountain School, for example: http://www2.selu.edu/Academics/Faculty/jbedell/proj.html

Answer 3

Well , it's free-verse, so technically, it can be anything.
For examples, look at any e.e. cummings poem, or william carlos williams.
And like these poets, there has to be a reason behind your structure , or choices in general.