Short Take A Step Back Poems

Take a step back
And think why you took a step foward...

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Take a step back to a simpler place,
Where the world revolved at a slower pace.

Think about Andy, Opie, Barney and Aunt Bee,
Enjoying life in the small town of Mayberry....

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Quiet
Take a step back
Evil destroys people
Harmonious interactions
Selfish





Form used traditional Cinquain  2,4,6,8,2 syllables
26.02.2016
A-L Andresen :)...

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Ecstasy has a natural place. 
That is if you know your soul & body & how to embrace. 
With all the fake components, the drug has to offer. 
Take a step back, embrace the world and don't become a pill popper....

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Sometimes in order to step forward
You must first take a step back
Grab another long look all around you
Breathe in a deep breath
See the big picture
Take it in for what it is
And what it could and will be
Then proceed...

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Stress seems like an  ominous thing but it does have one advantage: it helps you mind realize that you can take a step back from the world and see it differently. In a more calm and small and insignificant to you and yourself....

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By twilight we shall reach Torchwood
to spy on an insane time lord
let's delete him
then send him
straight to Mt. Erebor
then knock out a lowly hobbit,
kidnap him
and toss him in the Tardis
Once he wakes up
we take a step back
to see what happens next!...

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alone am i 
to stand on my own 
to take the fall 
to risk it all 
to take the chance 
to begin again 
would there be just one more friend 
and then again im on my own 
here i am 
just going on 
to take a step back 
to take another look 
deep inside 
another chapter 
another book...

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if I could
I'd take a step back
speak softly
sing more songs
gently speak truths from my heart
enjoy the small things

time races
the past is clouded
I hold close
memories
tomorrow comes quickly now
carnival dreaming


For the Shardoma contest
Barbara Gorelick 8/14/11...

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amidst cycles of creation and destruction
of peace and disarray
i must remind myself of where i stand
it’s okay to spiral, it’s human
but i need to take a step back before i make any harmful decisions
feeling is temporary
the pain, the anger, the anxiety
they will pass
good will come again...

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My heart pounding
The rocks crumbling
I look back over the edge 
The steep slope looming down
As horrifying images of falling pound through my head
I take a step back 
Then another
And then.....
                I slip
But the rope catches me
And I continue 
Tempting death
As I 
Abseil....

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Lying gown by the brook
Looking up at the stars
Remembering the past, covered in dust
Questioning myself of the fault I’ve done

Through the wound of despair
I hear its voice
Feeling its firm hand
Sweetly taking my heart

Too afraid it’ll hurt me
I take a step back
Later realizing I was my
TRASURE...

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Moving on without you gets easier each day

my heart feels less pain and the aching's gone away

some nights, the night sounds taunt me

go away I say

I'm moving on without you 

nothing's going to get in my way

throughout the day  even though I may seem so forlorn

I take a step back and realize that I am moving on...

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Relaxing in our comfortable seats.
declaring that it's a crying disgrace
honestly, it doesn't matter to us
further than just facts are required.
to justify all of this suffering and loss
of another heinous crime
we are refusing to look
take a step back.
as the number of victims grows.
every day

Written: May 26, 2022...

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It often seems

That people have need

To just some how

Take a step back

For the lack

Of looking ahead

They find they are not

Where they wanted to be

Now it is too late

And there isn’t a way

To get back to where

They have the need to be

They have the want

To have a way

To get back to where

They didn’t look ahead...

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You may think
That it all started on a wrong foot
As the saying goes
You may start to wander
That maybe it was the foundation
As it is always is to blame
It makes you think

Limitations are there for a reason
Grasp for air
But do not take a step back
What is written cannot be erased
Find yourself
Breath, release it
Heal and heal your soul, then let go...

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I wonder if I have lost my way
Got caught up in all the hype
Doing what I think I should do
Being a certain type!

I need to take a step back 
Take stock and re-evaluate 
Remember why I began  this
In the first place!

Sometimes we lose our focus
Often forgetting  the reason why
I need to go back to the very beginning
Recall the true motivation and once again apply!...

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He uttered the words, “I love you”
She felt desirable 
The signs that he really loved her,
Were practically non existent

That prompted her to take a step back,
To walk away, looking back were not an option
Realizing that loving someone starts at home
Every day she loved herself more 
Admitting that love for yourself
Was never a choice, 
It’s a necessity to walk this road…...

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Walking around in a meadow I see a beautiful flower I pick just for me,raising it up for me to see the beauty this flower has grown to be. I place this flower up in my hair for every one to see, this beauty that flows on and over me, take a step back and look at me and tell me if you can see this beautiness instilled deep in me. This is how it should be when you walk by and look at me....

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I am not a perfect person,
My hair doesn't stay in place,
I spill things a lot,
I seem pretty clumsy,
I sometimes fight,
Some days nothing seems to go right,
But when I think of you Lord,
And take a step back,
I remember how amazing my LIFE is,
I just start to see that maybe,
I would be better off imperfect,
As how else would I learn...
What you have tought me Lord...

Rev. Samuel Mack, OMS, DD
Copyright 2014...

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When at wit's end with seemingly no way out,
every decision is questioned with fear and doubt.

I take a step back and assess who I am,
only to find out that my heart and mind are condemned.

Nobody to blame but myself,
for ignoring the problems when I needed help.

Five years of chronic misery,
denial to accept the end, to scared to see.

I'm on the outside looking in,
while crawling out of my skin....

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Let's just take a step back
Rewind this moment in time
Get ourselves back on track
Just wished this train would stop on a dime.
But instead it keeps on rolling
Rolling straight through my heart
You have no idea how much this hate is growing,
It is literally tearing me apart.
But now you'll never know
The feelings that I've hidden
Except for what I choose to show
And if you read this, everything I've just written....

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You  have to tell your own story
Don't let someone else come into your house and mess on your canvas
Don't let them distort your beauty with untruths
Remember the colors you choose
Remember the strokes of the brush
It's all on you
When you take a step back and look at your painting you should be proud

Don't pay a second thought to what others might think
This painting is your masterpiece
©23022021...

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You say that you love me, 
but when I reach my hand out to you, 
you take a step back. 
How can you expect me to know how you
feel inside, you hold your feelings to yourself until it is too late,
when you say you can find someone else, what do you expect me to say?  
AM I supossed to have a smile on my face or stay calm, while you
end up in someone else's arms, I wish I could know, 
 I wish you would love me more....

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Take a step back
Just to catch my breath
Close my eyes
So I wont have to see what's coming next
Holing on tight
And try not to loose my grip
Watch my blood drip
Cuz Im just that pissed
Take my own life
Cuz aint nothing out here for me
Im NEVER gonna be fulfilled
always left empty
Take a step back
and then I trip
No one catches me
Close my eye
and no one bothers to look at me
Hold on tight...
but then I let go...

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