Best Steepest Poems
My Hypocrisy
...Were I to know your depth’s degree
I’d want to dive quite fearlessly
give all the things required of me
to plunge into our destiny.
Were I to touch the heaven’s gate
I’ll even bear hell’s jeal......
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Categories:
steepest, desire, lost love, love,
Form:
Quatrain
Animating Innate Vibrance
...Line of inquiry:
"betwixt the pulse of our heartbeat
simply present, head-heart linking
dwelling in time stretched blissful peace
awareness became unblinking" Unseeking Seeker
He was ......
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Categories:
steepest, desire, heart,
Form:
Rhyme
I Am An Eagle
...As father gave the push, my mother whispered, “Fly, my child!”
Resplendent in my feathers, yet was frightened of the wild
unknown for that where I grew up, I had to leave and find
the reason for m......
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Categories:
steepest, adventure, bird, change, metaphor,
Form:
Personification
Judge Knot
...Some people think knots are for boy scouts and sailors
Cowboys, hangmen,Anglers and whalers
But knots have many jobs to do
To make this point I'll name a few
turning two heavy ropes into one?
......
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Categories:
steepest, funny
Form:
Rhyme
Tree Which Offered Shade
...those powerful hands, embodying strength, offering a refuge,
the determined voice which carried assurance to fearful souls....
a banyan tree stretching its branches to provide shade ......
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Categories:
steepest, memory, remember,
Form:
Free verse
Where Man Walks Blindly Crying All Is Lost
...Where Man Walks Blindly Crying All Is Lost
As mind ponders on life and its brief span-
Only a gasp in the great fog of time;
Fleeting the days and quests of mortal man
Often in darkness, void o......
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Categories:
steepest, deep, history, humanity, life,
Form:
Sonnet
Incomplete Song
...Remember the walk we had at a dawn?
You mocked the fog and sang me a song
I cursed the cascade for being so rackety
You cursed the wind for being so wheezy
Arms in arms, walking and dancing......
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Categories:
steepest, death, life, love, symbolism,
Form:
Rhyme
Courage That Inspired Awe
...A crystal-clear picture!
The embodiment of courage!
An unsung Warrior, vigorously protecting uprooted,
heart-broken kin, ......
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Categories:
steepest, courage, dedication, family, fathers
Form:
Free verse
Shape Shifter
...It’s the circle of a trickle sliced from snow
at the mountain’s very top.
Widening and lengthening, it gushes and grows,
and at the steepest slopes it rushes - cascading
as a froth of diamonds
s......
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Categories:
steepest, water,
Form:
Free verse
All of Me Loves All of You
...All of me loves all of you;
My Love for you,
Is more than something I do.
It’s who I am;
It’s the breath I take.
It’s my happiness;
It’s the memories we make.
It’s the good times a......
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Categories:
steepest, anniversary, for her, for
Form:
Free verse
The Knight's Love Pledge
...For you to know my love is true,
I speak my mind just for you,
with my heart to help me through,
such things and what I'd do,
I'd wend through fire, unafraid of death,
put my heart through tru......
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Categories:
steepest, 12th grade, emotions, feelings,
Form:
Romanticism
Remember Your Roots
...Never forget where you came from,
As you walk in chains,and whips rain on your backs,
As you drag the chains,like beasts and dogs,
As you lie in cages,when the night falls,
As you are fed with le......
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Categories:
steepest, africa,
Form:
Lyric
My Bucket List
...MY BUCKET LIST
Years and years ago, I made a bucket list.
I looked everywhere and could not find it.
I don’t remember everything I listed,
so it’s time for a new one to be created
or just to g......
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Categories:
steepest, adventure, journey, places, travel,
Form:
Free verse
Cooler
...Fifty years of bustin’ ass, I never had a dime,
If I had any balls at all, I’d’ve chose a life of crime;
I never owned a brand new truck, a flat TV or yacht,
I figured I deserved much more, but sett......
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Categories:
steepest, funny, life, me, fire,
Form:
Burlesque
My Heart Betrayed Me
...I spend each wakeful night in search of evasive sleep.
An unwelcomed vigil denies me peaceful rest.
I've need to bury his haunting specter somewhere deep;
entombing forever my perpetual un......
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Categories:
steepest, betrayal, emotions, heartbroken, sleep,
Form:
Rhyme