Best Steeper Poems


Premium Member Waves
...I am getting tired of the tidal waves
That bring me to shore,
Spit me out and drag me in once more.
I am tired of the crest dropping
And the trough getting deeper,
While the pain in life gets st......

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Categories: steeper, depression,
Form: Free verse
Silent Running
...The coolness of the morning air, rushing over me,
Silent running, sunrise, peace, tranquility,
Heart is pumping faster, breathing getting deeper,
Stride’s becoming shorter, as the hill grows steep......

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Categories: steeper, happiness, sports, uplifting,
Form: Rhyme
Soul Searching
...I walk deeper and deeper into my own mind, looking for something while completely blind. 
Nights embrace only makes me travel deeper, with the road only getting steeper.

Not knowing who I am or w......

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Categories: steeper, age, body, inspiration, mystery,
Form: Free verse

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Premium Member From Now On
...From now on, I'll focus eyes above the trees
when years have yet to be designed
with unknown lands, the eyes can't see.

I can't forget what's  left behind,
or the weight of tears that buckl......

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Categories: steeper, future, hope,
Form: Quintain (English)
Premium Member Time
..."All we have to decide is what to do with 
            the time that is given us"        ~ JRR Tolkien ~

We are defined by how we use our time -
it can't be owned, it only can be spent.
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Categories: steeper, time,
Form: Quatrain
If Heaven Permits
...If heaven permits
I will be a robin
Perching
Up on a sunlit branch of a tree
Gazing at the far-off light
That flourishes out on the vanilla sky

I will sing
From June to the merry month of Ma......

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Categories: steeper, happiness, introspection, upliftingpoetry,
Form: Free verse


Premium Member On Calling Oneself a Poet
...Calling oneself a poet takes unmitigated gall and guts  
And he or she should be prepared 
To throw oneself off a high cliff
Or under the proverbial bus
Whenever the expression of innermost thoug......

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Categories: steeper, bullying, courage, poems, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Giving Thanks
...
The water rushed by pulling at me as I struggled to hold onto the moss covered
rocks, but they were slippery and my hands to not grasp them.  I was getting
tired and the water was numbing col......

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Categories: steeper, faith, nature, water,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Winter
...I awoke to find 
that Jack Frost had paid a visit 
to my bedroom windows
for the very first time 
this Winter.

If only I had seen him at work
I would have thanked him
for decorating 
......

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Categories: steeper, introspection, metaphor, nature, seasons,
Form: Free verse
Forgive Me For My Honesty
...Forgive me
for all the apologies I didn't write,
for all the times
I didn't get it right,
for all the times
all I did was lie,
and for every time I made you cry.
The guilt eats me alive,
it m......

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Categories: steeper, anger, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
One step at a time
...They say change is easy, 
a breeze, a flow, 
If done their way, 
a path they already know.

But they haven't walked your miles, 
felt the sting, 
Of trying everything, 
Yet still not taking w......

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Categories: steeper, hope, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
Prayer of An Unborn Child
...Mother; Before you do it-
Won’t you give me an ear?
I know I wasn’t part of the plan
And uncertainty is all I bring-
To a being who’s too young to take on steeper responsibilities
To a being who......

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Categories: steeper, prayer,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Dealing With Matter
...Sometimes words skillfully spoken
To play the slots insert the tokens

Pull the handle and play the dare
You really believe the game is fair?

You believe all is fair in love and war?
You beli......

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Categories: steeper, introspection, life
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Canto Xxiv Dante's Hell Translation Part1
...In the early part of the novel year 
When in Aquarium sun anneals hair
And nights already at noon disappear,

When the hoarfrost makes  ground a cover wear
Creating image of her sister white,
B......

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Categories: steeper, fantasy,
Form: Terza Rima
Young Wicked and Black
...I thought of one of my nephews before I wrote this, God bless him please

He's from a western land where the hustla's real,
And the thugs'll steal,
Brothers'll kill for the love o' bills,
Tryin'......

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Categories: steeper, crazy, hip hop, life,
Form: Rhyme
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