Staircase Poems | Examples

The salt staircase

I climb a staircase of salt
toward a memory
that never took shape.
Each step dissolves
into a mist of thought,
and above,
I am but a drop
in a dreaming cloud.

Staircase

Shadows
clinging to steps,
grain worn by years~
voice drifts between each tread,
pausing where the past often
hesitates




Vignette

Staircase

(For Nette Onclaud's "Visions of a Vignette 2" contest) 
(dated 23.06.2025) 


I climb
spiraling steps
with gold railing, 
huge stairs reaching heaven, 
(like angels in Jacob's dream) 
bound upward...

Courage Along Staircase

come up
dear special child
courage now moves
as faith propels by God's grace
from wheelchair, let's reach the top...
hope triumphs*.

*2 Corinthians 2:14 Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place.
 
June 23, 2025
2nd place, "VISIONS OF A VIGNETTE 2" Verse Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Nette Onclaud; judged on 6/24/2025

Staircase

shadow
shimmies up stairs
catches my eye
and ceasing its pursuit
stops so I can snap its soul
coiled and still

Staircase

                                       Oh my!
                              This sly staircase,
                       a coiled serpent,
               struck on the Christmas eve
       when stars blinked through the dark veil,
still it lurks.

Staircase

Walking up... 
the spiral treads 
Step after step 
Climbing up to the top
Going around and around 
I'm dizzy

Staircase

staircase
ascending where
incandescent
stars are stalactites
hanging in a sapphire sky
of satin

Staircase

around
about us wend
spiraling fates,
treading sills as lame cats
or children unsure of fruit
wink at chance

Staircase

Spiral,
Ascends upward
Rising above,
Enlightening the mind
Then slowly, bringing you home
Stable roots

Sponsor's Name: Nette Onclaud
Contest Title: 'Visions of a Vignette 2'
Date: 06/21/2025

Staircase

          What waits
          beyond the top~
          golden and worn
          from countless going up
          those fair wooden stairs, but none
          coming down?

Staircase

stairway
to heaven bound
has step-wise tiers
strewn with slippery slides
snaking down to land head first ~
rung hamstrung

The Whispering Staircase

it began with a creak,
low and hollow,
as if the staircase exhaled a secret
meant only for me.

at first, i told myself it was nothing—
just the old bones of the house shifting,
just the wind brushing the eaves.
but then came the whisper:
soft, deliberate,
threading through the night like cold fingers.

“come closer,” it said.
i stayed still.

the air thickened.
my heart tapped out a rhythm of warnings,
but my feet moved anyway,
dragged by some unseen thread.
the stairs groaned louder with every step,
their song ancient, mournful, alive.

at the bottom, the dark opened wide—
a void where the walls used to be.
and there, in the center,
a door i had never seen,
its edges slick with something
that shimmered even in shadow.

my hand trembled as it touched the handle,
a warmth pulsing beneath my palm.
the door opened,
and i saw—
no, felt—
a thousand eyes turn toward me.

i slammed it shut,
but the whispers remain.
they follow me now,
each night,
each dream,
calling me back to the stairs.

Staircase To Nowhere

Here’s a staircase to nowhere
You can try to climb on top
Just to see the world from there
While ascending, you can drop
See the steps are wet and rotten
Loose, unsafe and slippery
What is up there you've forgotten?
What do you expect to see?
“There's no view, but an old station
Which was built of wood and stone
I assume there's renovation
Could be an industrial zone
I can't say why I must be there
No one is supposed to know
So I follow steps to nowhere
It’s the way for me to go.”

Spiral Staircase

   nature sees each step

  on a spiral staircase as

      an entire lifetime

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