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Stepladder Poems - Poems about Stepladder

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

Premium MemberAn 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

Premium MemberMyku

...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



Premium MemberShelved

...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

Premium MemberIndigestion

...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

Premium MemberGrand 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

Premium MemberLeading 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

Premium MemberGarden 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

Premium MemberScales 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

Premium MemberBreathing 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

Premium MemberGermination

...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

Premium MemberChristmas 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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