Knowing Angels
...Angels are almost silent
Subtle
treadbare steppers
subliminal stalkers
determinedly quiet
except at choir
a pair of cherubic hums
can equivalate
to the drones
of a billion bee...
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Categories:
steppers, angel, evil, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Entire Room Is Silent
...Flaming whirlwind dance of the two steppers
They burn the floor up with their clicking shoes
I cannot keep my eyes off them
Surely they will win the contest
The entire room is silent except for...
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Categories:
steppers, dance,
Form: Free verse
We All Wanted To Be a Baton Twirler
...Twirling their flashing batons in a fabulous fashion
Two high steppers with tasseled boots led the parade
All of us third grade girls wanted white boots now
And a full short skirt with matching pa...
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Categories:
steppers, 2nd grade, 3rd grade,
Form: Light Verse
Leaves
...Leaves, green with sap of lush Spring trees
Flutter as branch bound butterflies,
Whistling tunes in Summer breeze
Backing cicada mating songs.
Well-seasoned leaves blistered with rust
Fly as p...
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Categories:
steppers, autumn, butterfly, seasons, spring,
Form: Free verse
Tardigrades Aka Water Bears Or Moss Piglets
...Tardigrades aka Water Bears, Moss Piglets
Before T-Rex appeared and the Dodo bird disappeared,
Leading to modern-day scientific knowledge increasement,
Creatures of infinitesimal size cal...
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Categories:
steppers, animal, education, nature,
Form: Verse
First Nation Cafe
...She loved our First Nation Cafe
from the primal blessed moment
just before she first could not yet think
of this cooperatively-owned communal place.
As other than some sacred space
She has lit...
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Categories:
steppers, environment, health, integrity, peace,
Form: Free verse
Restoring Earth Justice
...Permacultural project proposals,
for those who live where forests once prevailed,
could become sacred reforesting projects
employing secular eco-political democratic development
principles and pr...
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Categories:
steppers, caregiving, culture, faith, health,
Form: Political Verse
Grandfather Clock
...By Curtis Johnson
In May of ‘63, daddy’s demise came early when he was only 58, leaving mama widowed at 35 with eleven minor children. Essentially stair steppers, our ages ranged from 9 months to ...
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Categories:
steppers, blessing, dad, family, father,
Form: Narrative
Allow Me To Repeat Myself
...Dreamers dream
Scoffers scoff
Thinkers think
And droppers drop
Artists create art
Writers will write
Beware of biters, yes they will bite
A smiler will smile
Still sometimes they'll frown...
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Categories:
steppers, journey,
Form: I do not know?
Ghetto Story
...Kingston gal emerges the night
she don`t know just what is in plight
as she strolls the steets,to the first plane
it maybe easy...
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Categories:
steppers, hope
Form: Rhyme