Short Footfalls Poems

squishy sodden miles
footfalls bounce
Spring waters my feet...

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Aisle tiled of
frozen speech.
Footfalls of Wisdom is heard....

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Footfalls rise and fall
Valley rain shower awaits
Bathed in such sadness...

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Kenya summer walk
Heavy footfalls approaching
Pride passes by...

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Snowballs and footfalls,
Playing in fresh fallen snow,
Footfalls and snowballs....

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fingers spawn new continents
hospitals leave creatures spines
footfalls echo daylight express...

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season of splendor…bells chime forgotten footfalls…heart opens closed door 

December 18, 2018...

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Clouds full to the brim
Dancing footfalls jingle down
Melting chocolates
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15/5/16, Kolkata...

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Dark silent iridescent blues
Traces the ethereal 
Light in your eyes, a flare
Deep in nights azure hues
Footfalls echo behind me...

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Time is measured as a constant movement.
Light is measured in degrees of vision.
Distance is measured by footfalls of the weary.

After everything, I hope I always find you....

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True love is incalculable
An ebb and flow of lifetime…
Never looking back
Or retracing its footfalls…
Only leaving behind
The moments of memory…
Of where it once stepped
Ever fulfilling......

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You'll pick up the sound of gray footfalls
echoing through empty halls,
but you'll not hear a laugh or bell,
just a soft moan from a well,
and a tune, whistled by each bone
through which the wind has blown....

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The feel, it hurts 
when you 
open the eyes.    

The world 
returns you back,
your name.

A moon
will miss the
night, the darkness.

A door shuts.
Nothing moves, except
the footfalls of unknown.


Satish Verma...

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Darkness surrounds on a moonless night
Whispers all over I listen in  fright
Shuffling sounds draw infinately nearer
Indescribable eeriness advances closer
Frantic I adjust to the dark night
Footfalls unclear alas my plight...

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footfalls silently all my life had followed me till I turned a corner. . .

I hear them no more . . . for they are at my door


2018/ for Silent One's When One Line Is Not Enough Poetry Contest
Revised to new form, which is partially rhymed....

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See symbols speak
Prove profound peak


Voice vibrant verse
Pry poignant purse


Cast clever choice
Numb naughty noise


Cheery charm calls
Fun frames footfalls


Psyche primes pace
Fond flavours face




Leon Enriquez
23 July 2013
Singapore...

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Dark
Terror
Creaks and groans
Trepidation
Merciless sea winds
Unrelenting shrieking
Cold with fright under duvet
The stairs move with heavy footfalls
The door handle moves, I'm rigid with fear
Familiar voice informs 'it's a foul night'....

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Listen to poem:

Heard enough 
   to know where this can lead.
Footfalls poised to step 
   in footprints etched by fate,
   are caught in flight, 
   nudged to sidestep shunned.
A foot-plant re-direction
   on a clean slate.
Making fresh footprints, 
   striven silently in the sand....

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the smithy was empty
and the tree near it had fallen
and no one had expected it
the sunken sun had made a stand
with desperate gaiety
swept through sleep
to break the night

The Autumn children
like caged birds
counted the crocus stalks
and for footfalls of a misbegotten
soothsayer
...

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The dream of dandelions 
Is:
The dream of blue and sun
Nestled in the lush you curl
Around your toes and fingers
Quiet days.

A summer-warm emotion
Spread sleeping by your footfalls
A child of childhood
Childhood's end
Dream of dreams..........golddreaming
The dream of dandelions
Is....

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Despite the endless tears,
And all the unknown fears,
Endings must always be,
If change is to be free.

Memories are left behind,
Urging you onward to find
A beginning, so new
Only found by so few.

“Goodbye” is so bittersweet,
Footfalls echoing heartbeat,
Yet it’s only forward now, 
In some way and somehow....

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“Ready or not?”
Footfalls and bosom heaves
Through the forest of trees 

Someone please come rescue me
Dragging across the leaves
“Ready or not?”

Silence that’s brief
Duck barely dodging axe’s swing
Footfalls and bosom heave

“Someone help please”
Echoes my cacophony scream
Through the forest of trees...

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neath firmament arched chilly gray,
black schnauzer sniffs, her leash drooped slack
beside my footfalls echoing
past lampposts painting puddles gold …
damp taste of winter … summer-thoughts …
thank goodness pink clouds herald day


October 25, 2022
Bitesize Poem No. 54 Poetry Contest
Line Gauthier, Sponsor...

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SNOWY SILENCE  



Snow’s silence slowly
Floats down on the blanched land,
Stops memory  - frozen moment -
Whispers do not hurry.
Her over-ardent love clings to
My every-cornered coat,
Reduces my footfalls
To muffled whispers  - stays,
Spreads her shawl of quiet
Till memory records no detail, 
Nothing but herself....

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Sadness,
weeping’s thief,
leaving behind
the ghost of memory.

Sadness,
idle sound
of silenced
footfalls.

Sadness,
thorny stem
of tortured rose.

Sadness,
longing
for the loss
of loss.

Sadness,
soft prickly sting
of love’s
embrace.


2/9/2017

submitted to - Sadness – Poetry Contest...

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