Best Foothold Poems

No one ever said, I knew the way.
The spinning thoughts in your head, threw me away.
Congratulations my dear, despair has been lost.
We've done away with fear, oh but to what cost?
I can't seem to believe, what happened was true.
Were we so naive, to let sorrow...

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You're so pale and your walk stutters
with all the loads you carry on your shoulders. 
Don't be so shy to let it show, 
'cause I just want you to know: 

When the whole world seems to grapple you down, 
and your feet could hardly hold...

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"In your anger do not sin. " Do not let  the sun go down while you are still angry,
and do not give the devil a foothold. Ephesians 4:26-27.

 It doesn't pay to remain angry with your brothers and your sisters in the Lord 
Jesus...

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no foothold
by Michael R. Burch
 
there is no hope;
therefore i became invulnerable to love.
now even god cannot move me:
nothing to push or shove,
no foothold.
 
so let me live out my remaining days in clarity,
mine being the only nativity,
my death the final crucifixion
and apocalypse,
 
as far...

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My heart sings as I walk on springs,
With foothold on the sun, unburned.
Your love fills my heart, my soul,
My whole being.
I swim in love – I fly without wings.
Joy clings to my feet,
Gratitude fills my mouth.
So I sing, I dance in the air,
My claps echo...

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I Discourse Poem, The DREAM

The dream came before dawn
Longer ago than I dare to date.
Within it, I trudged along 
The forever-length of a deserted
Beach, having only the hope of
Sighting a pier with its over-swooping
Gull.

I kept on the heavy walk in the dry, 
Poor, foot-denying sand...

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