Best Out Of Step Poems
Below are the all-time best Out Of Step poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of out of step poems written by PoetrySoup members
Reflection**REFLECTION**
Running through a wheat dream
Clear skies, worms and flies, my face cries
Surrounded by silver streams
I stumbled into a valley where sleepness never dies
A manger on...
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Categories:
out of step, abuse, death, for her,
Form:
Epic
Glory of Her MagnificenceOceans 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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Categories:
out of step, change, longing, love,
Form:
Free verse
Will You Tie My Shoes When I Grow OldYou were beautiful,
my tiny child,
wrapped tightly in my arms,
close to my heart.
I listened to you breathing.
I counted your fingers
and your toes.
Helpless,
you...
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Categories:
out of step, caregiving, childhood, daughter, growing
Form:
Narrative
Like Ice --- the Waltz"Black Ice"
Sorrow flows from the first sunrise
Eyes deeper than winter and rainfall
A painful combination never felt before
At core death awaits
-...
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Categories:
out of step, absence, allusion, color, dance,
Form:
Alliteration
A Girl Named Sue - POTWPOTW 1 Oct 2018
Gossip about her
swept the school yard through
“Hey if you’ve got what it takes
There’s this girl named Sue
For a pack of smokes
or...
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Categories:
out of step, angst, fantasy, teen love,
Form:
Rhyme
- Peace, Love, and Gods Greatest Gift -The mellifluous musical tones of the village bells
Echoing chimes over the cold snowcapped mountains
Both finding their way to people in the valley below
Christmas songs —...
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Categories:
out of step, celebration, christmas, december, inspiration,
Form:
Terza Rima
My Far SideYou say, I’m too far,
towards the far side?
It’s a hazard of my left-handedness,
that I see the logic in abstraction.
Worlds lay within worlds
and colors bleed...
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Categories:
out of step, how i feel, imagination,
Form:
Free verse
One RegretNow walking through the autumn of my life
Where maple leaves have turned from green to gold
I watch them fall in breezes turning cold
In a whirl-wind...
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Categories:
out of step, introspection, life,
Form:
Sonnet
A Poem For My Algebra TeacherI know I promised
no more ‘Make you Cry Poems’
I said I'd never write another
‘Wipe your eye poem’
And for three years
I tried...
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Categories:
out of step, 6th grade, abuse, betrayal,
Form:
Free verse
Sundown MeditationTake a deep breath
Let yourself relax
Close your eyes
Come with me
Inhale
Exhale
Let me guide you
I’ll take you on a magical journey
Give in to the moment
Relax
Breathe
Close your eyes
You’re...
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Categories:
out of step, adventure, freedom, journey, peace,
Form:
Free verse
Soul Searching Trek Along Winter's Snow Painted Trails - a Collaboration With Robert and TeppoWaking to cold blown tent, ground frozen icy hard
woods are my love, as is poetry to a bard.
Today starts my anticipated forest trek,
seeking salvation from...
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Categories:
out of step, appreciation, beauty, introspection, nature,
Form:
Rhyme
Categories:
out of step, inspiration, life, love, relationship,
Form:
Romanticism
Summer LaceThe shadows fall like summer lace
Through palm trees fluttered in the sun
The soft caress of dawning breeze
...
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Categories:
out of step, beauty, day, love, morning,
Form:
Rhyme
Green AnniversariesThis is not a time for us
Facing these weeks of hospital walls
My knight now jousts an invisible foe
Shorn of hair, yet still he wears
Tubes of...
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Categories:
out of step, cancer, hope, marriage,
Form:
Free verse
Yellow Shoes In the DarknessWalking through the land of shadows
wearing my yellow shoes
With each and every step
I created color and hues
The shadows started retreating
As color permeated the ground
Out...
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Categories:
out of step, me, metaphor, places, yellow,
Form:
Quatrain