Gladioli
...They have frowsy flamboyant hats,
some are born English,
while others are obviously alien.
They need a deep corner to thrive,
or a high ceiling.
Like Maasai maidens their necks
are stretche...
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Categories:
stepladder, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Dad's Dad
...“dad’s dad”
the fun in function is when do becomes does
less rungs than wrongs in one that loves
i cannot climb high in my family tree
i know no nuts for as you can see
this is my stepladder...
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Categories:
stepladder, color,
Form: Limerick
Backing Up To Go Forward
...One more sunset missed,
one more sunrise lost.
The rim of a glass glints less
in an undressed light.
Living between the days
losing yourself in nights dark corridors,
you begin to fade,
to f...
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Categories:
stepladder, poetry,
Form: Free verse
An Empty Suitcase
...My heart is an empty suitcase
That I store in the attic
It waits for me to fill it with all the things I need to leave.
One time I took it down overhead
stepping on the stepladder
down to the...
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Categories:
stepladder, clothes, heart, loneliness, moving
Form: Free verse
Myku
...cleaning the gutters
spontaneous funeral
a dead baby bird
autumn pallbearer
from a silver stepladder
silent elegy...
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Categories:
stepladder, nature,
Form: Haiku
Shelved
...old stepladder
still able to climb,
still able to lean,
to prop and lift you up,
now elatedly sublime
a fixture prime in space
in pride of place
grounded
shelved
dishevelled...
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Categories:
stepladder, pride,
Form: Free verse
Indigestion
...the bridge he needed to cross was overgrown with tangled thicket’s brush
ragwort and giant hogweed littered the pernicious path to his own progress
of perspectives and the slow death from stag...
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Categories:
stepladder, courage,
Form: Free verse
Grand Old Scribe
...grandma bare bosomed and barely covered by frayed crocheted pants
looked like a mixture of parakeet and paragon in a fairy tale’s garment
under cover of darkness she would bare her wickedness and e...
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Categories:
stepladder, art,
Form: Free verse
Leading My Way
...grandma had always been a magical offspring of nature
collected herbs images mushrooms psychedelic support
tattoo in her mind rebellion independence and freedom
mescal beans at stakes lookin...
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Categories:
stepladder, art,
Form: Free verse
Garden Path
...as if Monet had planted water lilies in Babylon
hanging gardens at the heart of a canvas of joy
hiding despair at Speaker’s corner in Hyde Park
debating journey...
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Categories:
stepladder, depression, encouraging,
Form: Free verse
Scales of the Dragon
...Chairman Xi Jinping you seek a new geo-strategical order
Sick of the blame game burden and fake foreign news
Like viruses internet hacking sanctions and accusations
Spew a fault line of tsun...
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Categories:
stepladder, break up,
Form: Free verse
Breathing Time
...Stepladder up to the ceilings
Held with high reasons and feelings
The bookcase
Volumes of joy and pure leisure
State their case as printed pleasure
A bookworm
Shape a life into ...
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Categories:
stepladder, adventure,
Form: Verse
Germination
...When hurt descends from the tree of life and
The stepladder breaks straight onto your pain
A trampoline turned jo-jo strangles creeping ivy
Entangles in trapezes and dreams of surrender
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Categories:
stepladder, life,
Form: Free verse
Christmas Lights
...Christmas Lights
by Robert (Bob) Moore
Be nice to have the Christmas lights up out the front she said
some of the neighbours have theirs up, our place looks kinda ...
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Categories:
stepladder, celebration, christmas,
Form: Rhyme
Lets Talk About Love
...Lets talk about love
Love is meant to be an opportunity
To share a place in time,
And an open heart for a person,
That God has designed, just for you.
Love is to be our now,
Our everlasting ...
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Categories:
stepladder, love, marriage, life, god,
Form: Blank verse
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