Ballad Poems are poems that tells a story similar to a folk tale or legend and often has a repeated refrain. A ballad is often about love and often sung. A ballad is a story in poetic form. A collection of 305 ballads from England and Scotland, and their American variants, were collected by Francis James Child in the late 19th century - an example is shown below.
Langston Hughes , John Greenleaf Whittier,

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".
T.S. Eliot, Walt Whitman

English (or Shakespearean) sonnets are lyric poems that are 14 lines long falling into three coordinate quatrains and a concluding couplet. Italian (or Petrarchan) sonnets are divided into two quatrains and a six-line sestet.
Shakespeare,
“poems” http://www.types-of-poetry.org.uk/24-free-verse.htm

RUN
I run I run, I even do it for fun
Running is not a sport, but a way of life
Running is what I enjoy to do
Run all day, Run all night
Running is great and a way of life.

My poem

. The Road Not Taken


TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveler, long I stood

And looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth;
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Then took the other, as just as fair,

And having perhaps the better claim,

Because it was grassy and wanted wear;

Though as for that the passing there

Had worn them really about the same,
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And both that morning equally lay

In leaves no step had trodden black.

Oh, I kept the first for another day!

Yet knowing how way leads on to way,

I doubted if I should ever come back.
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I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.
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The road not taken..
its saying there comes a time in your life when you will have a choice. Take the common path or take the less traveld one.

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my iroc (an english sonnet)

i like to drive my camaro all day

i dont drive fast becuse i hate the cops

i dont want it to be taken away

its taking a farmer away from his crops

my car is very fast i know indeed

the color of it is deep maroon
but there is no need to go race and speed
it has a big engine under the hood
all that power i need to go fast
and on top of all that it looks real good
i speed i hope i dont become the past
my eighty eight camaro iroc z
this car was always meant for me