Best Footsteps Poems

Life has gifted me with tragedy,
broken images, forever haunting,
excruciating my suffering; blood
upon the pulse of my serenity.
Crystal lines are etched over this glaciered heart, 
and my tears wash blotches of thoughts 
that leaves me blank again daily.

Stolen by death, I am left mourning the assassins...

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Footsteps

	         Footsteps

		          On the ground…..
Lightly

	Stepping

		Without a sound…..

Tears are
					Falling

						As oceans sigh…..
The sun is

          Descending

      ...

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In this father’s mind, there is no other kind
Of noises that so resemble love
As the sounds that come from there, atop of the stairs
The patter of footsteps from above.

They’re scurrying about, the youngest one will shout
His sister just gave him a shove
Then she’ll plead her...

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I followed in your footsteps as you walked.
My small feet fit inside them.
You were big and strong like superman,
But you didn't scare away the monsters
That kept me awake at night.
Your voice,
Never the one to lull me to sleep
with stories of princesses and happy endings.
Emotions were...

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Stepped from ashes
healed are gashes
from sin's lashes
with God's glory.

Blessed in rivers
drunk by givers
love delivers
Gifted story.

By Rhonda Johnson-Saunders
for Nettle's Desiderata Contest, 12/5/14
Theme #3...

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Waiting for the music of your footsteps
as you reach the top of my stairs
to apartment two twenty five
waiting for that surprise knock
yet very much anticipated knock
only from the depths of you

My home has been cleaner than usual nowadays
ever since we started talking
it seems my mind...

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Thoust message rings,
But it is a wretched beauty.
Sew up thine tongue;
It forks in many directions,
Ensnaring, passing through the centers,
Weaving a thread gleaming, deceivingly white,
Yet drenched in the black goo,
The sticky gobs of our source, our blood.
Cast aside thine needle,
Let time make it blunt.
Wallow in thine...

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I wait to hear your footsteps in the hall
     The night is low and I a wretched beast
The pain of empty arms will not relent
     As I lay down my head to try and rest

The violet night...

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Walking side by with Jesus Christ.
Walking in footsteps.  Walking
in his footsteps every day.

Walking side by side with the
Son of Man. Listening and
learning his life's lessons.

Walking side by side with the
Son of God. Worshiping
And praising him every day.

Walking in the footsteps of our
Savior and Lord....

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In the land of spring where hope was born
it's gift - release of winter's hold. 
The sun of summer lost its luster 
following some how., days take a low bow,
streaked trials all but lost. 
  
Now the days shorter than a lit match' dream....

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Footsteps of Midnight

Sealed in a cave
No beginning - no end,
No dawn – no dusk,
No sunrise – no sunset,- 
Only the constant echoing footsteps of midnight,
Pursued – haunted -
Pushing the soul closer to the fine edge
Of madness swirling in a yawning abyss;
Icy terror rises up in...

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I can see you up ahead of me
I am following 
in your footsteps

no matter how fast I walk
I cannot catch up 

your footsteps are bigger than mine
but they were warm 
and safe to step in

you turn around
and smile encouragingly
then return to your journey

thank you for...

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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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Footsteps.

She sits there all alone at home and turns down her TV.
To listen to his footsteps walking through her memory.

She hears him as he climbs the steps that lead up to his room.
It's fifty some years later, still the child of her womb.

She can almost...

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first snowfall
pristine coat of white
footprints to mailbox



AP: Honorable Mention 2020

Posted on June 7, 2018...

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