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Sidestepped Poems - Poems about Sidestepped

Premium Member He Captured Childhood
...He captured childhood, never let it go, Sidestepped the potholes of “growing up” Never forgot that ice cream is better when shared Popsicles meant to be broken in two Throwing stones in the pond ......

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Categories: sidestepped, age, childhood, fun, growing
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Hidden Rainbows
...The truth gets sidestepped to satisfy hope, a dolorous lesson in life. By allowing my feelings free rein, I've opened myself to vulnerabilities. And upon hearing my heart cry out, strugg......

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Categories: sidestepped, angst, anxiety, emotions, feelings,
Form: Free verse



Engaged In Road Rage
...I was driving to work on Monday morn when behind me I heard a honking horn A guy's middle finger taunted with scorn, and that's the moment my road rage was born. Normally, I'd smile and......

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Categories: sidestepped, anger, car,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Frankenstein Event
...A private party I did throw for dignitary friends I served wieners in a can with little toothpick jabs It was Victor who did name me, inside his little lab calling me his Frankenstein, as ......

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Categories: sidestepped, anti bullying, anxiety, corruption,
Form: Rhyme
You Can If You Dare
...You can if you Dare Conditioned minds, controlled, domesticated Governed by rules Mortal law books unique to individual fools without questioning the content absolute or truth Each generation b......

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Categories: sidestepped, change,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Strawberry Sherbert
...I had strawberry sherbert dreams until they got sidestepped by melancholy chocolate cake. My dreams shattered like crumpled pie toppings. Now I have no desire for ......

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Categories: sidestepped, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Silently Seeking Solitude
...Slipping silently, serenely sober, Somnambulist seeking some solitude Shuffles, self-styled, still sleeping so soundless Solitary search--simply solipsist. Some sadder simpleton slipped seve......

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Categories: sidestepped, sleep, solitude,
Form: Alliteration
The Dancing: the Return Thereof
...Prelude After banishing my foe off to hell The Lord took pity on my soul And returned it to my undead shell Again, I was alive and whole But the consequences of a second chance Meant that ......

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Categories: sidestepped, allusion, analogy, angst, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Tree On Mars
...Imagine the first tree on Mars spindly and gnarly, but its presence begs recognition. The life force it took to plant that first tree bears witness to the emotions people bested, and the sacrifi......

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Categories: sidestepped, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Trump Abroad
...At first, when he sidestepped the Queen, A slight that the world had not seen, We hung our heads low, Embarrassed, although Such faux pas have become quite routine. But the meeting with Putin ......

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Categories: sidestepped, political,
Form: Limerick
Parasite
...I The beggar outside the supermarket You swore was picked up later In a flashy car Sat there in the sun for 8 hours While you pissed & moaned All the way home To your bookless Mausoleum Wit......

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Categories: sidestepped, political,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Footfalls of Fate Sidestepped Shunned
...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 o......

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Categories: sidestepped, fate,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dragons Angels- April Fools
...Here’s a penny for your thoughts… Dragon style! One day Dragon wanted me to explain what Angels really are…. So, I told him Angels are God's special people who can fly… He got all excited... Cau......

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Categories: sidestepped, confusion, fantasy, fun, funny,
Form: Light Verse
Summer Sight
...The dark gray winter passed The velvet green spring sidestepped Ah! The gold sheen of summer veneer Dissipating warmth and promising cheer. The weeds, the grass, the slender cattails Having si......

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Categories: sidestepped, summer, sun,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Upon a Tomb of Ancient Bloom
...Passed down through generations of my family history is the story of a man buried, and of an ensuing mystery. It's an age old story that my ancestors have always told about the presenc......

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Categories: sidestepped, death, lost love,
Form: Rhyme

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