Best Step Down Poems

What might you find there
down deep in my soul
Within the darkness
of that expansive hole
Will there be substance 
Will there be diamonds or coal
Step down the...

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I STEP down from the boardwalk and into a land  moved by the forces of the universe.

I feel the earth move under my feet...

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Addictions, restrictions, afflictions, decisions,
A needle, a bottle, step down hard on that throttle!
Disaster, no more laughter, destruction for years after.
Placate, eradicate, fornicate, masturbate,
Addiction.  Restriction....

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When the world becomes elastic 
and you wander past the sky
Standing in the vestibule
wishing you could fly

Searching for a compliment
a napkin in your hand
Cracker crumbs...

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I wake up in this fine old house
The quietus resides
The silence, almost tangible
Its pulse is almost palatable 

It's time to watch the rising sun
Another day...

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You knocked me down once 
And Christ gave me life;
Knock me down again 
And I'll just get up twice.

Eight minutes no heartbeat, 
Not sound asleep...

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When will you admit defeat.
How many 
have you beguiled with 
words of 
honey flowing through
lips deceiving.
He has said
the child 
may choose
how it confronts its demons.
Oh,...

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As I sit on the stand and raise my right
hand and swear to tell the whole truth.

I look at the man that raised his right...

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Though Harry did marry
The girl of his dreams
That move was contrary
In some ways, it seems.

For royals are loyal
To country and Queen,
Yet tensions did boil;
Life wasn’t...

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You are King of the Hill!
A full eight years done with teachers in a private school!
You are not foul-mouthed nor spoiled.
Everyone you meet, thinks the world...

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If wisdom now comes
out of the mouths of the young
It follows they must
Retrogress in a future
Step down to a lower rung

19 February 2020
Let the Pens...

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Ornate is the ironwork that I peer through
as my fingers grasp the garden gate,
and I open my eyes to my Wonderland.

My bare feet step down...

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The flower girl carefully placed the yellow rose petals

Covering the floor before her each step down the aisle

Now satisfied and smiling, she looked like an...

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An Oracle, ‘’ a cautionary tale’’

The man was called upon to help he went, heart full of love, not his own 

but (put there) questions...

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The world is turning upside down
Population exploding out of bound
Babies crying from starvation
Too late to stop impending devastation

The world is turning upside down
Pollution in the...

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