Long Footholds Poems
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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, imagery, mountains, nature,
Form:
Couplet
Endangered Trailblazing
Endangered Trailblazing
...
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Categories:
footholds, devotion, family, father, life,
Form:
Prose Poetry
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, enforcing southward retreat
remoulding the...
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Categories:
footholds, conflict, destiny, england, history, humanity, immigration, perspective,
Form:
Narrative
Trailblazing Then and Now
Trailblazing Then and Now
Astride his father’s shoulders
Like a double decker bus
There was always what his father saw
And the child’s gaze beyond
They learned together
What their senses taught them of reality
There were so many hills his father...
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Categories:
footholds, philosophy, father, father,
Form:
Free verse
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 them...
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Categories:
footholds, fate,
Form:
Free verse
Taiwan, My Brother
In the flowing scroll of time, said Confucius, blood remembers where it came from. The mountain does not forget the stone, nor does the sea deny its river. You, Taiwan—jade carved from the same dragon—why...
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Categories:
footholds, encouraging, family, fate, future, i miss you,
Form:
Free verse
The Settlement of the Four Ligures
The stones slipped through the great fingertips of God
Each ligure staked its existence on the four corners of the universe
The quadrivial region began to spin and pull into a sphere
And pathways revealed their footholds
The...
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Categories:
footholds, adventure, analogy, angel, anger, art, beauty, bereavement,
Form:
Epic
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 him to have something for this...
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Categories:
footholds, 11th grade, children, husband, wisdom,
Form:
Verse
Childhood Dreams
Childhood Dreams
(The Golden Period)
The golden period of my life has just begun
The burden on my shoulders has slowly shrunk
Younger shoulders have I found to carry on
My passion with desirous achievements.
Turning back I look...
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Categories:
footholds, childhood, children, dream, mother,
Form:
Free verse
Footholds in the Brine of Sea
all drift side by side
in grief's uncharted sea
starfish grip the surge
while seahorses coil and plunge
helpless, prancing in the brine
Some flee from the tide
yet none escape its etching
the shore bears its scars
waves return what once they...
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Categories:
footholds, angst, anxiety, sea,
Form:
Lyric
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
Neighbor's
Favors
Charcoaled
Turned gold
Adored
Reward
Threshold
Behold
Quest and
Destined
Become
A mom
Four kids
Amids
Teacher
Writer
Thank you
Trueblue
My face
By grace
Glass jars
All-stars
Trademarks
Remarks
Sublime
Lifetime
Apprise
Demise
Gerbers
Furthers
Bless you
Adieu
Godsend
Ascend
*R.I.P. Ann Leslie Cook, nee Turner*
At five months old,...
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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 echoes the...
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Categories:
footholds, anniversary, friend,
Form:
Free verse
Spiced Pains
The rock that to the climber reaches out with
jagged arms
And to the sore foot of a traveler turns a tough
rough back
Holds within its harshness
The promise of swift marches
To they who aspire towards its summit.
And to...
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Categories:
footholds, inspiration, success, uplifting,
Form:
Free verse
When They Met. Part I.
When Socretes, Plato and Aristotle teamed,
the line between the will to learn married the will to teach.
When Raphael, Leonardo, and Michael lived at Belvedere,
Art would see her form take shape and pave the way for...
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Categories:
footholds, education, history, hope, imagination, inspirational, life, uplifting,
Form:
Carpe Diem
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 mission,” they said, “carry these...
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Categories:
footholds, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
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 daffodils...
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Categories:
footholds, snow, weather,
Form:
Quatrain
Fatal Mortal
When was there ever a moral line drawn
where have all of our heroes gone
From the beginning ,
we've had war and strife
no real peace in our life
our mortal self ,
our fatal self....
we are our own...
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Categories:
footholds, hope, life, peace, love,
Form:
Free verse
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 the rungs
Heaving and panting I'm a-aching in...
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Categories:
footholds, angst, baptism, pain,
Form:
Free verse
Stand By Your Man
I Hereby Salute!
Those were the days........
Uncle loomed in many ways............
More joy at home ..........
With the cards well played...........
Life has become lonely.........
Yet he takes it very cooly.............
Sits tall in his chair............
Undying spirit is his flair.........
In a...
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Categories:
footholds, character, cool, devotion, father, tribute, integrity,
Form:
Ode
I Try To Establish Understanding
I try to establish strong mental footholds
In resemblance to fort knox physical strongholds
Through repentance I lost the spiritual blindfold
So every sentence I mock material billfolds
I seek an understanding of answers beyond the proven
Discreet but demanding...
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Categories:
footholds, faith, inspirational,
Form:
Free verse
Depression
There's nothing to hold on to
When you begin to slide,
And the walls begin to crumble
And you have nowhere to hide.
I look to find the child in me,
That stranger to anxiety,
But the footholds of my history
Are...
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Categories:
footholds, depression
Form:
Rhyme
A Year That Was
The year began with my dad's fall
Being bedridden and passing away
Followed by his death anniversary today
Seeing my aged mother suffering
From pangs of loneliness
Choking in pain and declining health
Properties forsaken to next patriarch
Daughters divested of paternal...
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Categories:
footholds, anniversary, bereavement, daughter, death, hope, miracle, mother,
Form:
Free verse
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...
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Categories:
footholds, encouraging, engagement,
Form:
Free verse
Spread Life Without Rest From Cradle To Something Heavenly
I fight often with forces of my own mental creation
So daily I practice social isolation
Get away from the action
Sharpen my reactions with personal meditation
These footholds build traction for the next generation
Build from family gratification
Unwillingly...
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Categories:
footholds, education, food, inspirational,
Form:
Free verse
Understand
Could you watch my dreams as
deconstruction jaws them savagely
to torn rags
before your eyes?
Would you understand, intervene,
gather them whole
with tenacity, with love,
with tender care?
For I cannot dance alone in wooded
glades beneath sheltering
crushed black velvet
skies.
Nor can...
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Categories:
footholds, devotion, faith, love, passion,
Form:
Blank verse