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Best One Step Poems

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Premium Member One Step Away From Eternity
Alas, I stand atop this mountain crest,
and gaze upon the valley down below;
the graveyard where your body lays at rest,
sits in the center shadowed by...

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Categories: one step, death, lost love, sad
Form: Sonnet



One Step At a Time
adventure, growing up, hip hop, repetition, word play

A ONE STEP AT A TIME ©
Life is but a hopscotch path
Players vying for placement
Rules to follow aground
Tokens...

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Categories: one step, adventure, growing up, hip
Form: Verse
Premium Member Glory of Her Magnificence
Oceans apart
buried under sandy shores,
a rare pearl slept comfortably
behind her walls.

Fate must have been kind,
for a common man like me,
to stumble upon her shell.
As I...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: one step, change, longing, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Seeds of Wisdom
A solitary man
I make my way up the mountain
One step at a time
The life I know further and further behind
I wish to be alone
away from...

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Categories: one step, loneliness, solitude,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Freedom Beckons Seductively - POTD
POTD 29 Jan 2020

A balmy fragrance of cedar and lime lingers
A will o wisp floats by gathering dew
A mark on the page of another man’s...

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Categories: one step, freedom, friend, tribute,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Waging War
If you're going to wage a war, there's a few things you must do
Like having robust logistics in place and a battle hardened crew
You'll need...

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Categories: one step, conflict, people, soldier, war,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Breath of Love
Within each heave grows mild a tender sight
That follows your beat through the hem of night
Where I become a whisper of moon’s delight
To cuddle each...

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Categories: one step, daughter, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member What Is This Dance
What is this dance that we do?
First you spin me; I twirl with delight
Captivated by your attentive gaze
Then you back away as I move toward...

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Categories: one step, confusion, dance, relationship,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Can'T Get High Enough
I started sucking my thumb until it looked like a plumb
Things didn't feel any better so I poured a glass of rum
Some will imagine I'm...

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Categories: one step, addiction,
Form: Rhyme
Your Favorite Song - You and Me
Oh that’s you and me  

“You and me were always with each other,
before we knew the other was ever there”

Destiny carves its path through...

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Categories: one step, love, music,
Form: Free verse
On a Ballroom of Stars
When I feel alone
a gypsy soul without a home

When nobody 's there 
with warmth  to share
When rattling rains are all I hear

I close my...

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Categories: one step, beautiful, emotions,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Stringing Pearls
A thousand little moments,
one connected to the next…
Exquisite, time-sequenced pearls
from then to now and beyond
Ignore the strand, where it may lead,
and focus on the bead...

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© Jeff Kyser  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: one step, journey, time,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Unbridgeable Chasm
Last night my thoughts dwelled in melancholy
recalling what we once shared had been good
before we made the mistakes of mutual folly
and on opposite sides of...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: one step, lost love, marriage,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member What a Privilege
As a child, I mistakenly believed that older people chose to have stiff backs, wrinkles on their faces, and veins like small, fat snakes on...

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Categories: one step, age, introspection, wisdom,
Form: Other
Wall Street
Set upon the new world stage within the burning fires of hell. Silently posed factions of the elite, suppress the true inherit of Mother Earth....

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Categories: one step, political, slam, social, war,
Form: Epic

Book: Reflection on the Important Things