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Lost A Step Poems - Poems about Lost A Step

Premium Member Not When I'd Lost a Step or Two
... Not when I started to show it not when I’d lost a step or two Not when my memory would lapse not when my waistline grew Not when others began to snicker not when my b......

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Categories: lost a step, age, humor, me, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme
Looking Back, I’m Ashamed
...Looking back, I’m ashamed of what I was, A mirror shows the choices I regret. In shadows of the past, I see my flaws, Yet wisdom’s light has guided me, I bet. I wandered lost, each step a trial......

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Categories: lost a step, anger, conflict, courage, cry,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Almost Perfect
...She glanced at herself in the mirror behind the receptionist and then once again in the hallway mirror before taking the stairs down. A man coming up towards her, noticed her immediately an......

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Categories: lost a step, beautiful, beauty, vanity,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Time to Pass the Baton
... Time… to pass… the baton to a younger man You’ve lost a step a step or two, gone Time… to pass… the baton to loosen your grip to put down that whip Time......

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Categories: lost a step, age, future, moving on,
Form: Rhyme
Champagne Lady Ii
...Conflicting waves ruffle the smooth blue static hindering the ethereal progression of her path Airiness sinks heavily to lean into leaden aqua mistiness lingering, a foggy dolorous requiem Pract......

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Categories: lost a step, allusion,
Form: Acrostic



Premium Member I'Ve Lost It
...I’ve lost it! Not sure what it is Yet I’ve been told I’ve lost it. It started with a step. “he seems to have lost a step” “a bit off his feed”. I checked the staircase All the steps are t......

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Categories: lost a step, age, humor, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Life With Barbara
...My Life With Barbara A loving summary By Franklin Price 01/26/2022 The year was nineteen sixty-nine, sixty-eight was spent in 'nam There was no social media, no laptops and no spam. No cell p......

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Categories: lost a step, death, love, marriage,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member You Are Your Own Grandma
... Found the words to say so now here it goes I hope you don't mind I'm not very good at Prose Younger than my mother, yet grandmother to me Sister to my father, an Aunt also to me Alth......

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Categories: lost a step, absence, age, bereavement, child,
Form: Free verse
Rennie's Outlaw, Part Iv
...IV. But the jokes all stopped cold six months later when her belly swelled up, big, full, and round. It was a scandal, her dad was enraged, a rash of whispered words ran through the town. Renn......

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Categories: lost a step, angst, fear, heartbreak, history,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
A Cowboy Hangs Up His Spurs
...I used to ride from dark to dark For wages that were thin Then saunter up to Shorty's bar And he'd say."Where you been?" I'd drink a lot and tell some lies 'Til I got drunk of course When I r......

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Categories: lost a step, age,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Premium Member I'Ve Lost a Step Or Two
...I've lost a step or two, or maybe three My memory isn't what is used to be It takes me forever to get going these days Sometimes I forget what it is I want to say I ask young people 'Wh......

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Categories: lost a step, age, fear, loss, retirement,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Shy Guy Can Survive
...I've lamented my own existence for years Evidenced by my tears and fears I gave a damn too much what other people thought Wondering in me what they might have ever sought I lost myself in the wic......

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Categories: lost a step, cheer up, confidence, freedom,
Form: Free verse
Ravens Gathering
...The rider of death carrier rein would you censor the imagine or carrier on, Night of day bloody rain hell among the trees what crow’s the ravens unleash, To take a peek among a tree to role a b......

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Categories: lost a step, art, love,
Form: Ekphrasis
Companion
...COMPANION Countless hours, time no concern Side by side, how much we’ve learned Through ups and downs and thick or thin We march together, new tales to spin No longer a canter, your gait without pe......

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Categories: lost a step, animal, devotion, dog, friendship,
Form: Lyric
Life: a Race
...'Quit! Give Up! You Are Beaten' They Shout At Me And Plead 'There's Just Too Much Against You Now' This Time You Cant Succeed' And As I Start To Hang My Head In Front Of Failure's Face My Downward F......

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Categories: lost a step, inspirational, life, dad, dad,
Form: Sonnet

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