Best Missteps Poems

Dirty hair and a rag tag shirt with spots of blood
sitting on Cathedral steps spilling out love
smiles greet finely polished Cole-Hann's, Carter's, Valentino's
along with gentle out-stretched strokes to the well-fed 

Doe eyes dance in Hanna Anderson at the base of Sunday's best
holding close the moments...

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Missteps, mishaps and mistakes

In a World of tears and fears
A world of half light and shadows
Where night is a fool… days last for years
And the only way out…is the gallows

Terrible are the times in a man’s life
When feelings of kinship
Seem lost in the night
And hatred...

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On that last unsuccessful date 
he had entered a hotel 
through its revolving doors…
missing the right turn, the precise gap
in which to step forward, 
he staggered rearwards onto the back glass, 
then bounced, like a jack rabbit 
into the foyer.
She, of course, coolly witnessed 
this...

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My words the result
  of the times I’ve lived
  not a classroom exercise 

My feelings all paid
  with the blood of my fears
  not a rambling diatribe 

My trail has been lined
  with each tear and misstep
  to mark...

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