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Best Following In His Footsteps Poems

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Following In Your Footsteps
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...

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Categories: following in his footsteps, faithgod, prayer, friend, god,
Form: Rhyme



Following In His Footsteps
The shoes may fit, 
but my feet may not follow
his footsteps, 
for fear of falling down
in the long shadow
that looms,
in your memory
of his dancing...

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Categories: following in his footsteps, love,
Form: Verse
Fig Tree, New Year's Day
Our fig in January, entirely denuded now
like my heart in your absence, is but
more beautiful, if possible, in its seasonal
solemnity than in summer's exacting extravagance.
The...

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© Nola Perez  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: following in his footsteps, naturewinter, winter, new year,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member War and Peace
across the table pink-eyed – not even Alice’s rabbit either – the impenitent sat – stooped – round as a fatted pig – full of...

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Categories: following in his footsteps, age, betrayal, truth,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Love In a Far Off Place- For Contest
We'd made a dawn start that day, following in his footsteps, as
apparently Jesus used to get up early.
Our group had gathered for a reading, and...

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© Viv Wigley  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: following in his footsteps, love,
Form: Free verse



Middle Finger To the Sky
in Florence, Italy,
the Museo Galileo
houses the middle finger of 
Galileo Galilei---
enclosed in a glass case &
sticking upright at the sky,
it not-so-subtly signifies
the wonder that came...

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Categories: following in his footsteps, life,
Form: Free verse
Fig Tree, New Year's Day
Your fig tree in January, denuded now
is more stately, if possible, in its stark seasonal
solemnity than in summer's exacting extravagance.
Its trunk, massive in manhood, is...

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© Nola Perez  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: following in his footsteps, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Time To Step Aside
Son Scott, is following in Daddy's footsteps
So proud of that boy of mine
Technology's gotten way ahead of me now
Back then, my designs made me shine

But...

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Categories: following in his footsteps, age, happiness, life, love,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member September Morning
The long hot summer vanishes, the leaves have all fallen. As I sip my coffee on a cool morning on my patio. I watch the...

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Categories: following in his footsteps, nature,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member The Jaywalker
The city has evacuated the streets at this hour,
and vacancy has given his unsteady feet 
right of way at every intersection. 
The traffic lights, sticklers...

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Categories: following in his footsteps, betrayal, drink, growing up,
Form: Free verse
Father
Father dear father
Copartner in my life
flesh of my flesh
bone of my bones 
alpha adam ancestor 
 
Daddy growing up 
you’re my hero
my idol my mentor
i...

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Categories: following in his footsteps, childhood, confusion, death, dedication,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Wise Old Men
Old Wise Men

Remember the oldest are wiser and more knowledgeable by far…
They have lived in this world seeing the best and worse there are.
They have...

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Categories: following in his footsteps, caregiving, dedication, devotion, family,
Form: I do not know?
Life In a Verse
I’m more interested in 
writing life in a verse
There’s no time like the present 
To believe in God
Don’t live your life in reverse
Gods here to...

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© James West  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: following in his footsteps, god, jesus, life, light,
Form: Free verse
Illusions of Enharmony
I dance on illusion,
getting caught up in the spin,
the sad waltz, the happy waltz,
the dance with foes,
that "I" have made.
Money makes me happy,
or money makes...

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Categories: following in his footsteps, faith, inspirational, introspection, life,
Form: Blank verse
His Tragic Sweetheart
He saw her,
Standing next to him...
With a peaceful smile

He ran towards her,
Listening to his first words...
With great interest

He offered upon her,
Accepting on his relationship...
With destined...

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Categories: following in his footsteps, death, happiness, life, love,
Form: Free verse

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