Best Steep Poems

ice pick digs deep
breath spews thick mist
foot hold must stick
peak steep cold slope
stay calm keep hold
success not cheap



1st placement
Charles Messina sponsored
Bauk-Than 3 rows of rhyme highlighted in bold and italics
Written 25/12/2020
4 syllables 2nd, 3rd, 4th words/syllables rhyme
4 rows with three rhyme patterns...

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Once I tried 
to embrace a cascade
A steep descent of a slim river

With a soft
regalia of steps
but she sprinkled scantily on me

But I was 
aroused, flushed and reddened.
Enjoying her warm and soft impact

Before she
became a cataract
with strong undercurrents and deep holes.

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Written October 13, 2016


Your love is a fortress
But I can't afford it
The price has been driven too high
By gentrification and the likes of some guy
Who's labeled it "rustic" and "chic"
All this rent is too steep
So I walk around town
Just to find a place to sleep
Be...

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Steep little tea pot.
Where's your cups?
Mother's in her apron
heavin' hiccups.

Saucers on the table
serving up tea.
Cookies on their plate.
waitin' for me.

Napkins folded over.
Spoons on top.
Adding sugar cubes,
plop, plop, plop.

Time to sip your tea.
Lips to cup.
Come and grab the handle.
Up!, Up!, Up!

Thank you for the tea.
I'm quite...

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Brought up with kin as animals
Instinct enhanced with repitition
over and over again
Beaten into the heads of boys.

Tongue's disfigured to my ears
thoughts saying something, saying nothing
Dirt under fingernails
Umbillical cord taken and eaten by Guides.

Omnipotent elder with heads of antlers
gives birth to lions and mules alike
with handfuls...

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the edge of love’s steep cliff

Love is
all we hoped 
it would be
promise of a wish for us

But lover
here we are
flying high 
love's no more an empty dream

So kiss me with your sweet lips
don’t let this love slip by
sweetheart
we are a pair
of friends
who fallen over the...

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over steep hills
scenic bike tour
of irish sunsets



posted on July 3, 2018...

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Steep Sand Dune

While we were standing on step sand dune
Started looking out towards a long lagoon
What we saw were a pretty pair of pelicans
Who turned out to be pair of perfect twins.

Long billed birds walked up and down shore
Waves soon would come in more and...

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Must climb this steep hill
Must claim what’s on the other side
All my precious things...

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Must climb this steep hill,
must claim what’s on the other side –
All my precious things....

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I found it necessary to get rid of some things
I don't usually argue with myself
so I cut some questioning pieces
those unnecessary chunks, you know?
but I think there's little left of me
I didn't have the naughtiness of this throwaway world
I never had the malleability of the...

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My demons, I see, 
Though they are quiet
But are never silenced
They still want to riot. 

Some of the demons leave me,
So, it's quiet in my head
Some of them travel with me
Yet, they roam inside me, dead. 

I'm sure they'll always be around, 
In my darknesses,...

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The steep hill of ambition, is paved with those failed tasks
The intention, and the hope, and all the other asks
The things that we were wont to do, but never did get done
Just because without belief, our success rate would be none

That is where the sadness...

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A steep rocky eminence 
Is too tough to climb; 
One will feel the glory 
After the hard and trying time. 

A steep rocky eminence 
Expresses the Lord's power; 
It speaks of His mighty hand 
That truly works wonder. 

A scar in an area of high...

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steep snow storms hillside;
as excellent lorry prowls;
under snow showers;
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mountings blizzard storms;
covering grounds hills valleys
accumulated 
~
white dust sparkle specs
falling downward down to ground
steep snow storm hillside


1/25/21
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2021







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