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Footholds Poems - Poems about Footholds

Born To Walk On Waves
...I was not born to the moors; my roots are planted by wild running seas, even so, a rolling heath is a green tide heaped into wind-sculptured waves, low breakers that may tug you deeper, or crash......

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Categories: footholds, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Magritte The Empty Mask
...it's clouded obscured just enough variety to throw you off there's no such thing as a penetrating gaze no beyond nor here or there just this unc......

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Categories: footholds, art,
Form: Ekphrasis



The Edge Is Where Life Leaps
...Waves break their rolling heads on faceless cliffs. The wind is lost, it turns this way and that only to crush its own voice. Turmoil is lovely, the howl of chaos clears the mind, sharpen......

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Categories: footholds, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member God's Love Unto All
...And the Lord’s servant must not be quarrelsome but must be kind to everyone, able to teach, not resentful. Opponents must be gently instructed, in the hope that God will grant them repentance leading......

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Categories: footholds, fate,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Rip Ann Leslie Cook, Nee Turner
...*Image of Original Gerber baby, Ann Turner Cook by KTVU. R.I.P. Ann Leslie Cook, nee Turner Ann Cook Her look Not name Became Households Footholds Aspects Effects ......

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Categories: footholds, baby, character, farewell, woman,
Form: Footle



It's Not My I Can'T Cry If I Want To
...One eye opens quicker than the other, so cute, but who'll spearhead you home, me or the Neanderthal host? Party goers head for the exit. I seem to have sat down on a preset remote; your laugh ech......

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Categories: footholds, anniversary, friend,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Escapade
...I never cared to do the dangerous things, and liked to play it safe, But the strict bonds of ordinariness, can oftentimes start to chafe. I always preferred to cover my bets, for I hated the idea......

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Categories: footholds, adventure, fantasy, friendship love,
Form: Couplet
The Myth Carriers
...Before I first crawled from a mythical ocean light years before history began to take itself seriously I was told to spin new myths. The dead-not-so-dead gave me buckets of myths. “This is your......

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Categories: footholds, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Total Abandon
...Barreling down the mountain of forgetfulness, I raced to Wal-Mart for that last minute gift. We’ve not seen his children since Christmas. Despite their quicksand of un-thankfulness, I want hi......

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Categories: footholds, 11th grade, children, husband,
Form: Verse
Premium Member England - Gleaming In the Distance
...across the Doggerland dogged people trudge Neanderthals, Heidelbergers...Sapiens, the last ones standing hairy mammoths, heavy life bearing down the mighty maw of an ice wall crunches, enfor......

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Categories: footholds, conflict, destiny, england, history,
Form: Narrative
Now, Falls the Snow
...Heavy laden this mix of rain and early March snow listing in the wind down to the un-expecting earth below. At first, a barely visible mix, cold and chilling throws where once peeking daffodil......

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Categories: footholds, snow, weather,
Form: Quatrain
Partialling the Truth
...Listen here! I am hurting up all over Lying here undiscovered Papparazzi cumulus are jostling in my street God is taking photos of the remnants of His sheep Climbing footholds and gripping on ......

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Categories: footholds, angst, baptism, pain,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Betwixt Straddle and Poised Precarious
...Straddling is safe with grips each side secure, but progress requires the flip flop position, secured on one side or the other, not looking down or back. It’s iffy to lift a foot implante......

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Categories: footholds, encouraging, engagement,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member New Zealand
...The dark, drenched forest was tinkling with tuis and bellbirds, blind to the ledger book, the bill of lading, the glint in the eye of the ax. Pious settlers wired the land for religion and sw......

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Categories: footholds, earth, environment, nature, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Fabulous Friction
...Fabulous friction, Your magic transforms The steep rock into footholds. In delicate balance We dance on invisible Stairs to the summit.......

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Categories: footholds, mountains,
Form: Blank verse

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