Best Stairs Poems
Below are the all-time best Stairs poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of stairs poems written by PoetrySoup members
A Poetry CollectionHourglass
Sand falls
Through the glass
Love falls
Within the past
Memories dance
They never last
Head in my hands
As I stare overhead
At the hourglass
Falling Down Stairs
Stairs broken
Wheels unspoken
I fell
Grasping for air
Are...
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Categories:
stairs, art, guitar, humanity, introspection,
Form:
Free verse
My Heart Will Go On - POTDPOTD 30th August 2018
The gently swaying branches of the old oak should elicit calmness
And yet a sense of foreboding permeates the midnight air
Wild imaginings?...
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Categories:
stairs, grief, heartbreak, lost, romance,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Where Gladiators FoughtPart I
Where gladiators fought for life,
we meet to fight for love
The constellations in the Roman night sky,
celestial spectators, bathe the Colosseum
in the white blood of...
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Categories:
stairs, passion, places,
Form:
Epic
Cry of the CityWe will walk then, you and I
When daylight shuts her weary eye;
Down the streets where beggars sleep
And drug crazed addicts spend their keep.
On streets that...
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Categories:
stairs, life, prayer, time, drug,
Form:
Rhyme
Fifty-Three Shades of Greyin the uncoloured tint of another everyday
amongst the spit polished waxed apples
tightly packed in burlap bags
they walked like minded
in their own burly wrap
oblivious to the...
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Categories:
stairs, child, community, conflict, dad,
Form:
Free verse
Dumb QuestionsI was changing a tire and the neighbor walked by
Stood and looked a while, then he said Hi
Got a flat? he asked and this made...
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Categories:
stairs, funny, me, wife, me,
Form:
Rhyme
Miracle On Ford StreetSt Anthony's orphanage was founded some thirty years ago
For homeless and orphaned children, by a priest Father Angelo
Every child was made welcome; race and religion...
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Categories:
stairs, care, children, christmas, prayer,
Form:
Narrative
Cookie JarStanding on tippy toes
Top shelf
Reaching
Stretching
Finger tips edging the jar forward
Imagining the taste of chocolate chips on my tongue
Yumm mom's chewy delicious wait till Saturday...
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Categories:
stairs, adventure,
Form:
Rhyme
The Bard of GortSpringing free from glistening
Fronds
The summers heat leaps for
Height;
Whilst drifting obscurely far
Above
A distant lark now hangs in
Flight.
Floats down his sweet trill,
Accompanied by...
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Categories:
stairs, memory,
Form:
Rhyme
Adored To Abhorredfrom owned to dethroned
you led me
from queen to unseen
you hid me
once crowned to now bound
you kept me
absorbed to derobed
you left me
a spectacle to be gawked...
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Categories:
stairs, courage, woman,
Form:
Rhyme
Held AloftWe'd laid old George to rest the week before,
at ninety-one he now rejoined his wife,
no heirs to his estate, so one thing more
to do, and...
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Categories:
stairs, heartbreak,
Form:
Sonnet
Snake Oil Man In Milton CreekIt was about seven in the morn as the sun was starting to rise
Unbeknown to the folks of Milton Creek they were in for a...
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Categories:
stairs, america, western,
Form:
Rhyme
Interlude"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
In this performance we call life,
my spirit searches for an...
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Categories:
stairs, angst, death, emotions,
Form:
Free verse
An Eternity IStood upright, between two roads,
On a thin metal rail,
A solitary, brown coloured bottle
Of beer, ...
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Categories:
stairs, betrayal,
Form:
Rhyme
Sweet Ghost ValentineAn old house I am led to -it is the symbol of
Memories in cobwebs - like those of old lost love.
A storehouse for so many...
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Categories:
stairs, lost love, love, me,
Form:
Couplet