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Best Doorsteps Poems

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Premium Member In Praise of Doorsteps
I think of sunsets I have seen
throughout my many years
from doorsteps where in quiet thought
I've laughed and wiped my tears.

The doorstep is a thinking spot
a...

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Categories: doorsteps, life,
Form: Rhyme



Untying of a Love Knot
When I used to dream
I used to dream about him
Fantasizing about how it happened and how it could have been
Demons, chasing Nightmares, Happiness on Poles
Tied...

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Categories: doorsteps, lost love, me,
Form: Bio
Premium Member Spontaneity
Line of inquiry:

"discarding narrow thought flow crutch
we learn directly by soft touch
and what we garner we relay
to the vast void in childlike play
entwined thus with...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: doorsteps, philosophy, spiritual,
Form: Didactic
Echoes of the Heart
~Echoes Of The Heart.~
                     ...

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Categories: doorsteps, poetry,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Pluviophile
I am not a rain dog
With my tail between my legs
Dying to run home in haste
Away from showers that gradually increase 
And then come pounding...

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Categories: doorsteps, love, rain, water,
Form: I do not know?



Premium Member Visions of Autumn
Scarecrow’s tattered clothes
Clever birds are never fooled
Sit defiantly
Arms of hay hold heckling birds
Eating the last grains of corn
 
Nature’s curtain falls
Vibrant leaves make no encore
Tumble...

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Categories: doorsteps, seasons
Form: Tanka
Sonnet 19
Cupid, why hast thou cursed me with thy bow?
Enchanting my desires and compliments
Unto a woman who seems not to show
The same affections of my hearts...

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Categories: doorsteps, lovelove,
Form: Sonnet
I Want My Dinner
Dripping doorsteps or bubble and squeak
I ate so much I couldn't speak
Apple pie and clotted cream 
Used to make my taste buds scream.

Home made parkin...

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Categories: doorsteps, memory, mum,
Form: Verse
Eight Word Challenge - After the Thrill Is Gone
Eight Word Challenge – After the Thrill is Gone

Like an exotic orchid in the glow
of moonbeams, I unfolded 
vulnerable petals, inviting you in. 
And even...

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Categories: doorsteps, lost love, sad love,
Form: Free verse
Am Not Poor My Honesty Wraps Me
GOD has made us with the same soil. 
Some born as  poor some enrich with gold foil. 

No big house  No luxury was...

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Categories: doorsteps, change, corruption, heartbroken, hero,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member May Is the Queen of Happiness
May is my happy month, for she is my birth month 
Some people treat themselves with a birthday.
I made the decision to celebrate my birth...

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Categories: doorsteps, happiness, happy, joy, may,
Form: Personification
Premium Member A Season's Dance
She wanted me to dance, to dance away
It was the spring, within the month of May
Still to this day I can see her movements
We went...

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Categories: doorsteps, life, seasons,
Form: Rhyme
Enough
I will die
here at the doorsteps
of your heart wondering
why you let
me come so
close and yet you kept
me so
distant

A wall of
ice and glass
prevents me from
any
further move

Gasping...

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Categories: doorsteps, allegory, angst, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Autumn Joy and Nostalgia
Orange blooms at dusk
goblins in the pumpkin patch
rich fall's come again

ghosts haunt dark cool nights
scarecrows wave in harvest fields
sad trees weep colors

devils on doorsteps
trick or...

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Categories: doorsteps, autumn, beauty, halloween, joy,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Odyssey
It's not easy being a cat, you know 
They say we have nine lives  
But truth be told, like you, we have but one...

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Categories: doorsteps, cat, love,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things