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Best Get Your Foot In The Door Poems

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Premium Member The Poet
Etching tales that run in trails along a parchment sheet
From feathered quill in trembling hand so longing now for sleep
As black ink drips down from...

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Categories: get your foot in the door, poets, writing,
Form: Quatrain



Premium Member Whisper of Death
My life spirals ever downward...
The grave taunts me with its laugh.
Death's bony fingers are affixed my throat
As the jester of my unmerited epitaph.

My angst at...

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Categories: get your foot in the door, angst, confusion, death,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Chasing Footprints
CHASING FOOTPRINTS

Some feet are bigger than others
none bigger than those
left by your brothers -
that you tried to fill.

The foot that Dad
would put “right up ‘ur...

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Categories: get your foot in the door, growing up, humor, introspection,
Form: Verse
Close Your Eyes
Close your eyes and think of us

as we journey across the sea

take my hand and waltz with me

in the shadow of the moon


Close your eyes...

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© Tim Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: get your foot in the door, dream, love,
Form: Free verse
The Other Mom
I was laying on the beach
On a hot August morn
A sudden pain in my gut
I knew that something was wrong
It's Eddie.  I felt it...

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Categories: get your foot in the door, death, mother, sad, son,
Form: Dramatic Verse



Who Am I, Really
Could I have always been wrong about me?
I don't think I even know who I am anymore
I don't have the strength to fix myself
There's a...

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Categories: get your foot in the door, confusion,
Form: Rhyme
The Restraining Order
"Well, how ya doin?" he asked
placing his foot inside the door.
His face became a sneer
as he recognized her fear
that only strengthened his resolve.
"What are you...

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© Sue Mason  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: get your foot in the door, social
Form: Narrative
Loves Amputees
Dismiss me so gently like swishing chiffon
To dream like a phoenix, time to drone on
But dead like a doormat,unable to pain
Pillar of salt , summoned...

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Categories: get your foot in the door, for her, heartbreak, heartbroken,
Form: Free verse
Overwhelming Vision
I have questions...
questions I seem to have stored in a jar
a collection seen as emptiness from afar
to these arcane corridors of secrets life has assured
My...

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Categories: get your foot in the door, time, universe,
Form: Free verse
Thank You
My credit to you, is endless
My foundation, you have built
My manner is not mine, but yours
For a mould you had taken
And shaped you had, a...

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Categories: get your foot in the door, blessing, change, deep, education,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member The Raw Innocence of a First Job Interview
The raw innocence of a first job interview



I'm sitting at a McDonald's
writing a poem. I save it.
My interest is piqued,
at a young lad interviewing
for his...

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Categories: get your foot in the door, beauty, growing up, journey,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member I'M Afraid of Being Played...So I Pushed You Away!
I'm Afraid of being played... (Before)

I’m so afraid of being played… 
             ...

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Categories: get your foot in the door, girlfriend-boyfriend, lost love, love
Form: Free verse
Prayer To Carry Me
Prayer to Carry Me


Lord, help me to exfoliate 
From the skins within sin
Rid me of my sins 
And give them to the dead sea
Without you,...

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Categories: get your foot in the door, faith, hope, inspirational, lifeme,
Form: Rhyme
Torn - Song Lyrics
TORN (song Lyrics)

A part of me wants to leave you alone
A part of me wants for you to come home
A part of me says I'm...

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© Anna Lo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: get your foot in the door, goodbye, lonely, lost love,
Form: Lyric
-blessed Teachers-
Man should feel very bless

   in having Teachers around that care

   for the learning process

   is an on going...

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Categories: get your foot in the door, teacher, tribute,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs