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Doorsteps Poems - Poems about Doorsteps

Premium Member How do you find your loved ones once you get to heaven
...How do you find your loved ones once you get to the hereafter? How do you navigate your way through the billions of souls who fill heaven from floor to rafter? Will an angel come and take you by t......

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Categories: doorsteps, death, family, friend, heaven,
Form: Rhyme
Letter That Came Too Late
... I opened it like a wound unwrapping itself, the envelope soft from time, your name trembling in a handwriting I had learned to forget. You said sorry. In ink, not voice. In past tense. ......

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Categories: doorsteps, 10th grade, absence, abuse,
Form: Elegy



Premium Member Harvest Moon O're Withered Fields
......the village shivers a hive of restless souls skin pricklin' with anticipation as costumed runners fixin' to gather — hearts a-thrummin' like trapped hummin' bi......

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Categories: doorsteps, autumn, culture, halloween, humanity,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member A Surprise in June
...Vivacious, young Adele was quite popular, for she had lots of friends; Like night's affinity with creamy stars, of joyful glitter that never ends. She was a professional pet sitter, doing......

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Categories: doorsteps, animal, fun, nature, nursery
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Bed Times
... "Lights out," Momma said. "It's time for bed." But it's too early, I'm feeling squirrely. "Pull your covers up," Momma said. "Don't wiggle around so much." Waitin......

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Categories: doorsteps, 4th grade, 5th grade,
Form: Rhyme



What Once was Ours
...Standing in this shadow of a life cloaked in my ancestors grief A potential seized by panic, and insecurity I'm questioning Were all of our footsteps frozen There was a time we fought but tha......

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Categories: doorsteps, addiction, anxiety, feelings, native
Form: Free verse
Premium Member stork feels his oats
...Stork felt grumpy now that rules had changed completely My job used to be easy, I did it on time, and it was sweetly But these days I am bogged down with extra things to drop My knees are feeling ......

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Categories: doorsteps, age,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Spontaneity
... Line of inquiry: "discarding narrow thought flow crutch we learn directly by soft touch and what we garner we relay to the vast void in childlike play entwined thus with the universe we dan......

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Categories: doorsteps, philosophy, spiritual,
Form: Didactic
Premium Member Odyssey
...It's not easy being a cat, you know They say we have nine lives But truth be told, like you, we have but one In my personal life, in my odyssey to the road of being loved I purred many days ......

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Categories: doorsteps, cat, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Rum N Raisin 10 - Three Months of Crazy
...Raisin just stared at the chaos ahead A kitten, confused as she sat there in dread The world has gone mad, all the people have flipped She glared at a window where blood and gore dripped Folk w......

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Categories: doorsteps, cat, christmas, firework, halloween,
Form: Narrative
You're a Regular Mother Teresa
...Sensitive skin Scraped by sensitive information If I don't know who I am, then what will I tell everyone? A scuba diver without his mask is just a body in water A father without a child is jus......

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Categories: doorsteps, corruption, extended metaphor, i
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Autumn Joy and Nostalgia
...Orange blooms at dusk goblins in the pumpkin patch rich fall's come again ghosts haunt dark cool nights scarecrows wave in harvest fields sad trees weep colors devils on doorsteps trick or......

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Categories: doorsteps, autumn, beauty, halloween, joy,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Time To Enjoy Autumn
...*not for contest Time to enjoy Autumn, until the last leaf falls All the colors that embrace us Special gifts that surround us Crisp apples waiting to be picked Pumpkins smiling on doorsteps ......

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Categories: doorsteps, appreciation, autumn, color,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member We the Doctors
...We the doctors Unlike children of our age, innocence fading into a sage; Lost in a horde of books, eluding everyone’s cynical looks; Burning midnight oil, unaware of the upcoming toil; Ti......

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Categories: doorsteps, appreciation, trust,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member In Search of a Word
...There's a word for it; One of my favorite words; It often crosses my mind as is the case presently. But it always evades me. Its meaning seems to always find space in my life's spear, and I'......

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Categories: doorsteps, science, words,
Form: Verse

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