Best Following Poems

Following footprints in the sand
Across the beach, down to the sea
I picture you, hardy and tanned
Always joyful, always carefree

Your righteous path is hard to trace
Following footprints in the sand
Such soft impressions waves erase 
I wish you could lead, take my hand

When you were with me,...

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Far, far out at sea one day
          A Hummingbird so found its way
               To roost upon my pulpit rail
   ...

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babysitting Ricky
he shows me books on T-Rex. . .
ancient history

years later. . . watching
Jurassic Park on TV. . . 
my two kids and I

games played on a screen
my grandson plays the hunter. . . 
I’m the dinosaur

For SKAT's Dinosaurs Haiku Contest...

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Following the tumor blooms
that muted my throat and gut,
I duct taped my mind
to the wordless, I put my head down 
charging at daggers, and
thanks to pain bullets and cancer bombs
my thoughts are catching a little headwind.

I'm looking at a sea otter floating on its back
agilely...

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Heaviness painfully throbbed your beating heart, 
as the world could not understand it
and could never see it.
With your slurred words
and tired, dilated eyes, 
I smiled, knowing you were not from here, 
watching you drenched in sweat, 
dripping down from your neck
in the midst of this...

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Against life, one should never revolt
 
But

Obediently he ought to follow her wise lead to

Wherever she decides him to take

For

Life knows better one’s nature and the laws

That govern it

Thus

One has to become as complied as the waters of the river

That

Follow the river’s banks all the...

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It was our destiny,
from the moment of our birth
We were the children of the covenant of salt,
chosen by God to preserve the earth
Children of love,
children of peace
Progeny of the Day star,
luminous faith given to the least
But before our immortal day would come,
darkness prevailed over the...

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Wise Men Had Been Following

Wise Men had been following a bright star;
Distance they had been traveling was far
And in the night,
Should turn right;
With their camels they did start to spar.

Jim Horn...

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They said I'll never make it
I guess they were right
I never fulfilled their dreams...

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Some folks follow all the rules;
Others like to bend 'em,
Feeling like it's only fools
Who staunchly would defend 'em.

Which way that you lean begins
When you're just out of diapers.
Followers fear that their sins
Will make them pay the pipers.

Benders, though, might get a rush
From tempting fate and...

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I try to escape
From you there's no place to hide
Following me inside

I rub my eyes twice
You walk through walls like a ghost
How do I let go?

Along comes silence
And the prison that that brings
Time to think of things

Got to get on home
Fell down the well beaten...

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I want to follow in your footsteps
and do the things that you used to do
I want to follow in your footsteps
and be guided  always by you
I don't want to have role models
I don't look up to my elders that live next door
I want to...

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Clink clank clink clank clink clank
slow steady pace, metal hitting pavement
pausing when you pause
following you home, the man is bones

and a tie, top hat, tails, not tap shoes
more like chains, the sound a horseshoe makes
when it hits the stake, clink clank
what does he want, why...

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You sell yourself for money
Hour lunch two coffee breaks 
To punch a card at 5pm
For a cheap watch and a cake
You live on autopilot 
A zombie for the pay
Make copies, staple papers
Day, after day, after day
You think you're irreplaceable 
Never make it without you
But if...

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I must travel to that space to where I know my own perfection
To turn my eyes to the most uplifted of exalted heavens
To feed the grace of challenge and objection
As the daring confrontation to my guide to never lessen
Bearing the thrust, lifting the weight of...

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