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Best Ladder Poems

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Premium Member Because I Love You
I saw the bitter tears of unhappiness
Running down your agonizing face,
Ravaged with pain,

And I became a sponge of compassion
To absorb them.


I heard the howling 
Of...

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Categories: ladder, friendship love, humanity, society,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Legend of Silence
To the legend of silence
that speaks in trembling stillness
I’ve seen your halcyon halo~
that illuminates wilted weeds 
and tilted tendrils 
unfolding perfumed wings,
allowing sizzling seas of...

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Categories: ladder, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Never Out of Season - a Short Story
I was wiping the dust off an old snow globe in the upstairs attic, when a mop of honey-blonde hair suddenly appeared through the wooden...

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Categories: ladder, august, bereavement, blue, christmas,
Form: Narrative
Love's Last Heartbeat
In the moorlands of desires, 
I've forever sung choruses of
fertile faith, amidst the flock 
of bleeding birds, sprinkling
heartbeats on lush olive herbs, 
In the dream...

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Categories: ladder, angst, metaphor, sad love,
Form: Free verse
I Am the Mighty Mountain
I stand, the most statuesque, peeking through the clouds
that lend their softness as my pillow when sun in midnight drowns.

Golden sun, a fitting crown for...

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Categories: ladder, earth, mountains,
Form: Personification



Just a Note-Humbleness Is a Virtue
Be careful when going up a ladder


Be kind to those you meet


Remember,going down that ladder


the same people you will greet...

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Categories: ladder, caregiving,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Hidden Beauty
..............I could write you 
...................poetic images
...............that would make 
............other women drool.
...............Speak of sunsets 
...........wired, computerized 
....................................to 
.....................................P
...................................PU
..............................PULSE
............ ...to the rhythm of
.........your striking features
B............Build you a ladder 
.............from light, that we
..............could climb...

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Categories: ladder, beauty,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Window Cleaner
Window cleaning is my trade and I want to tell my story
Like the time I saw the Vicars wife in the bath in all her...

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Categories: ladder, funeral, funny, humor, nursery
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Shout Whisperer
As I climbed up the ladder backwards
I somehow ended up at the bottom
I whispered in the ear of summer
until she turned into autumn

When my mirror...

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Categories: ladder, angst, care, color, dark,
Form: Rhyme
Unbroken Reconciliation
18-12-1922.                    22-12-2018
A date of birth. ...

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Categories: ladder, december, father daughter, how
Form: Free verse
Genie In a Gin Bottle
Her lips caress another cigarette
A fading belle looking for love
The smoke veils a creature of habit
Chasing a young girls dream

But this Genie found the palace...

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Categories: ladder, love, sad,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Fragile Self
While finding  myself in  season’s twilight
I see parts of life crumble amid grime of ruins,
As a  declining mind wanders to  balance
Gratified...

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Categories: ladder, introspection, self,
Form: Free verse
Deep Dark Poem
~Deep Dark Poem~

Tonight I want to go deeper in my soul
I want to be born again tonight I want
to go back in my mothers womb...

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Categories: ladder, poetry,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Both Sides For Me
The look of pity on the saleswoman's face said it all
my paint spattered clothing, however the jeans fit
just didn't have that panache, chic pizazz, tongue...

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Categories: ladder, absence, adventure, dream, fun,
Form: Quatrain
A Nook and a Storybook
A nook in the corner, off to the right..
A haven, housing a hundred homes.
To there, where wakened dreams do hide, 
My wandering mind so often...

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© Sneha Rv  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ladder, adventure, best friend, books,
Form: Quatrain

Book: Reflection on the Important Things