Best Ladders Poems

With elan springing forth from young age
Enthusiastic to take centre stage
All his wits he was able to gather
And proceed to the foot of the ladder
Effervescent – a smile on his face – 
No misgivings, of doubt not a trace
Rung by rung clinging on to elation
Reaching...

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Braids and Ladders

There was once a very selfish wife,
Who allowed her husband to risk his life,
Collecting Rapunzel climbing over
A witch’s wall,
Until one night the witch caught him!
How dare you, how did you have
The gall!
She promised not to hurt a hair on	
His head,
But made him a...

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So little is on the ground
It's desolate, or so it feels
As I'm trying hard to get away 
I don't see the blades of grass
Or feel the coolness on my bare feet
I want to climb to freedom
But if I stop and think about the moon
It just...

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 Keeping your mind, 
healthy and open 
and taking that big step 
through the opportunity door; 
you’ll find going up, 
the career ladder, easy.

It’s not always easy, 
to keep and open mind.  
Going straight up 
the ladder, opens 
many possibilities; open doors 
lay at...

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"A Game of Snakes and Ladders"

It’s like a game,
a game of 
Snakes
and Ladders,

some spend their lives
climbing ladders
up the corporate sticks
sliding all the way 
back down on their sore
sweet and sorry revelations
soap boxes thrown and burnt
like needles lost in hay
we all become 
redundant at some point
on...

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Please try and read with the rhythm, flow and spacing I created by use of the lower casing in place of full-stops and commas/breaths. Allow the words to dance...

Snakes and Ladders


I'm not perfect
Never can Be
in this crude and dense 
lower-sense materiality
You are not perfect
Can't you...

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Ivy-covered sheepskin, firmly in hand
    the confident graduate, square-jawed and tan

  Pulled offers from prestigious start-ups all over the land
    a year later he played lead guitar, hat in hand

  He, ever-grateful to his folks for those...

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What devils inside me insisted
The weak shall be lead by the strong
A labour of love, torn and twisted
Oh! How can a life go so wrong
 
As I lie here, consumed by the silence
And the sound of your breath on the wind
While the rain pours, with...

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Sanity is threatened by this game banaL
Not for the faint of heart - it has its own agendA
An endless nightmare can be yours once you are snareD
Knowledge is useless when your luck has dieD
Everlasting.  Trenchant;  It will drain away your last drop of...

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I believe that we are,
We are the ladders for them
to reach where they need,
and where there's joy.
What pains a lot,
they see us as nothing 
although we are the pillars,
the basis of the world
and i believe that without us,
they can't really afford to achieve
what they need.
It's...

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One time, when I was about
eight or nine, 
Poppa climbed up onto the roof.
He was fixing something
(I don't remember what)
but he called me up.
He wanted me to see 
the sunset
uninterrupted by the houses
and trees of the neighborhood.

It was my first time
up high
and as I ascended
my...

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Ever climbed a ladder
To see what’s on top ?.
To fix something up
To see what’s what ?

Expending so much energy
As you make your climb
Using up resources
Using up your time ?.

Not sure why you’re climbing
What’s there when you arrive
You’ve been told when you get there
“You’ll know that...

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Many ladders

prayers

silences

tears

overjoyed

at movement

silences

Tuesdays

battered...

joyful

Tuesday...

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Different lengths 
Different breadths. 

Surfing sometimes 
Hard at times. 

Pausing 
Dossing. 

Stretch
Etch....

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A serpent disturbed in the grass
Slithered up the hose of a lass
But quick as a flash
It made its last dash
A victim of Isle of Man gas...

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