Best Ledge Poems

I fell asleep it was day  
icy and  grey 
bewildered on a ledge
protruding from the rock
no sign of mountain top
darkness round about
the abyss down below
deep and hot.
Leaning on the savage rock
menacing tongue and eyes
on the three by five
my wife
who had earlier died,
in the...

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On this ledge I sit
Contemplating tomorrow
Will it be a different day
Or the same old sorrow

Even the clouds
Look as gloomy as me
Grey and ashen
Soon we could both be free

Below me the waters
Image where I sit
A mirrored calm
As if it's knowing where I'll hit

Behind me there's a...

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A girl in a red hat, walking home from campus, looks up and sees an elderly man stepping out on the window edge of an aging apartment building. She considers the distance from the ledge to the ground and determines that the fall will surely...

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Sparrow on a ledge
Needed help but told no one
Vanished overnight
Her smile now missed by neighbors
Lights out again on Park Lane

Foreclosure’s victim
Few ever visited her
Had we known her plight
This senior we might have saved
Elderly and abandoned



*In honor of John's "Retread what you've said" contest...

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I sit at the end of the wooden pier

Near the river’s edge

As the current cool water veers

Unhindered away from the ledge


Watching the swirls on the water surface

As the ducklings swim,   as they leave the sedge

Aware of my bare feet, splashing the blue surface

For...

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blue water on ledge
dribbling down vertical side…
mist forms at bottom

Russell Sivey

Contest: any haiku will do
Sponsor: Poet Destroyer A 

7/17/2013...

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A rose bloomed.
A poem written in buds.
It offered its arms, illiterate to whats been written. 
It fell asleep. A garden in thought.
Slipping from the ledge it grew.
In REM it whispered.
Wake me when we land.
For I will have acheived my dream...

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Every morning between 7:00 AM and 7:30 Am
I f you looked through the bathroom window
You would see a most beautiful sight.
There were three deer on the ledge;
Father, Mother, And Babe

They would stand there for an hour
Then they would go back into the woods
You could set...

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Kindhearted and caring am I,
you've got the opposite on your mind
should've known cuz you're just a guy.

If I talked you off a ledge
you'd probably follow me 
home wishing for a wedge
of my pie, wondering if I think you're sexy.

If I tried to save you from...

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Lone rocky outcrop
Isolated hardened heart
Cold wind scours surface...

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Avidly watching for nigh on three weeks
A black backed gull protecting her eggs
Through gales and rain or heat from the sun
Whatever the weather thrown down from above 
             This truly was a labour...

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I stand on this ledge… Teetering back and forth on the edge…
I weave precariously, slipping on my tears…
I look to the heavens as I swallow my fears…
A warm breeze gently caresses my face… 
There is no more time, and there is no space…
I stand with...

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A Lonely Ledge

There always appears to be a lonely ledge
We will reach before going over the edge
It really may not be obvious or clear cut
So ask how, when, where, why and what.

In progression, try to answer each word
Listening to way they have been heard
Which must...

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If you could relive one day of your life..
time lost, now retrieved for just a short while.
To thrust old scheming machinations knife,
or return healing to a lover's smile.

Such a fretted frittering those lost days,
though ones you and I will remember most.
Passions reared high in servile...

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Strong sentinel on high
Beneath a mountain sky;
Called by name Bristlecone.
Twisted tree all alone
With green needles so dark 
Life clings stoic and stark.
Worn wood with thin bark edge
Locked to a limestone ledge. 
Thousands of years flowed past
‘Gainst snow and wind, a mast.
No sails with which to...

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