Stairwell Poems - Poems about Stairwell

...The cold stairs, the cold, hard, stairs, the cold, hard concrete stairs, the cold, hard, concrete, piss-stained stairs. He climbs, climbs to the stars, the cold, hard stars, climbs to the sta......Read the rest...

...I pushed at the open door no sound just darkness inside. Dust filtered my nostrils, a mustiness of lost years inhabited my senses. A loose floorboard creaked in the stairwell, the ......Read the rest...

...the ghost - stitched, fused, tethered haunting! creaturely shadow, darkness entrenched cast on paving, stairwell, at my heel relentlessly matching step for step beyond slivers of glass, separat......Read the rest...

...Faerie was sad that she had lost hope. It was on the couch cushion last night, she thought. This is crazy. Is she kind of a dope? This was said by a stuffed cat, store bought. Hope was on the s......Read the rest...

...He pushed at the open door no sound just darkness inside. Dust filtered his nostrils, a mustiness of lost years inhabited his senses. A loose floorboard creaked in the stairwell, t......Read the rest...

...The elevator shudders - then a muted ping as narrow doors slide open, the conveyance only lifts one person at a time, when it descends it is always empty. I've been here before, ......Read the rest...

...To *key3 How bad can it get, don't ask me that question I'm on the 97th floor terrified, hanging from a window, gasping for breath You want to know, if I put faith to the test On the p......Read the rest...

...I pushed at the open door no sound just darkness inside. Dust filtered my nostrils, a mustiness of lost years inhabited my senses. A loose floorboard creaked in the stairwell, the ......Read the rest...

...I knew you were gone. In the startled-now of a wide-eyed night---I knew, though you were beside me all along, I sensed. A cloying doubt, a premonition of you missing fastened tender gums to m......Read the rest...

...He sleeps in a straw motel at the top of an empty stairwell, at night Moth-Man crouches upon a bridge as silent as stone. If you follow an oxycontin mule into the woods it may lead you nowhere,......Read the rest...

...Sitting on the beach, As dusk falls upon the end of shore, I look at the lighthouse, As I see a faint figure, Looking beyond the sea. She holds her chest, As if she is holding a necklace. She ......Read the rest...

...Our holiday in that old art deco apartment block brought us into each other’s domain little pigeons for us, respite from the Covid 19 devastation a place of shelter for you and your mate. In th......Read the rest...

...The foxglove Summer has tripped away I am farmed out far from home Alone, with strange tongues Winter slips quietly into The far corner of my comfort While the Mouse size room sleeps Night......Read the rest...

...Quarry mine in the presents of His glory Rocky mountain are the stairwell to the heaven Key lime pie to the sky Green light deep dark world This be the story Tumbleweed embracing Plymouth Ro......Read the rest...

...Original poem posted Aug. 3, 2021 for Charles Messina's Contest: When I Let One Loose in the Elevator (for those who do not know, SBD means "Silent But Deadly") When I let one loose in the elev......Read the rest...