Rungs Poems - Poems about Rungs

Life's a Game of Rungs and Coils

...
Life’s a ladder swaying high.
Dice are spinning wild, across the sky.
Some rolls lift me to the sun.
Others drop me, the snake has won.
Still I climb, to what fate may bend—
I’ll play this gam...

Ladder Sways in So Many Ways

...
I linger, to pause for a while,
between the ladder rungs of what's been done below,
and what is yet to become above.
Below me stretches a dizzying array of tiers.
Each step is a relic of a deci...

Harried Harris heir still feels horrid courtesy heist he doth declare

...Harried Harris heir still feels horrid courtesy heist he doth declare...

Earlier this merry month of May
a goniff who possibly did gossip
about his/her surreptitious exploits
when he/she brazen...

The Poetry of the Broken

...My God is the God of broken ladders,
many rungs are missing
and I don’t have the skill to mend them.

My usual recourse for the unfixed
is to pen a poem about the
imperfect beauty of the
unfin...

Dreams Cast About

...
       Dreams cast about
          as the moon climbs her rungs
        
        By the first light of dawn
           ~ yield to the sun
...

Reflections of the Past Visions of the Future

...No of lines: 48; No of words: 397

                       Reflections of the Past, Visions of the Future

                         My mind brims with a string of reflections
                    ...

Self Love

...*“The evil that man do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones;” 
Shakespeare in Julius Caesar


                            Self Love

Time has now dawned to start loving ...

This Nobody of Renown

...Most people aren’t blessed with all the zest 
Of money, power and fame,
But live their lives in “quiet desperation,”
As Thoreau once famously claimed. 

As for me I once believed 
I was headed ...

The Ladder

...Yes
It's rungs
May be covered in rust
But commit to the climb
To learn how to trust

Yes
You'll fall
Again and again
Caught by the arms
Of a very old friend

Yes
You'll be put
Back at t...

I Breathe Poetry

...
I breathe poetry into my lungs, 
It is my lifeline, 
Together, we have climbed many rungs, 
'tis a great pastime! 

I breathe poetry out to the world, 
It is my message, 
My thou...

Kelli

...My first test in what we shared
too easy and too perfectly paired.

The part of us that is immortal
ran holding hands through a portal,

quick to stumble and trespass upon
a duplex that kept t...

Am I Light

...Am I light or dispersed star
Scatter or straight to all earthly uneven
Whether the stray comet to unfollow
Chaos or chord to sundry upheavals
Mortal cry pebbles the enshrined path
Luminious moon...

The Snake

...He hates the sun
when it rains
he slithers to the lake side
gazing at his reflection
still he smiles
attention is after all attention
he soaks it all in
a fool who fools no one
they all now s...

what we perceive

...The Perceived 

When Joe Biden the American president 
walking up to the steps of his plane
fell stumbled and fell several times
possibly because his aged legs didn't
lift high enough on the la...

i do not climb the ladder

...the ladder is metallic 
a shiny gun metal blue
light weight and telescopic

14ft tall or nearest the sod
as high or as low as i like it
i will displace myself upon it

i can lean it where and...

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