Half Past Summer, Two Months Till Fall
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Half past Summer, two months till Fall
A Monet image, relishing!
Brisk sienna steppingstones spraw...
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Categories:
steppingstones, autumn, beauty,
Form: Triolet
Steppingstones
...Leaping from stone to stone
Leaping forward toward the unknown
Stones hovering high above it all
Far below, a giant blue ball
Will you take a leap of faith with me?
Only by getting stoned o...
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Categories:
steppingstones, visionary,
Form: Free verse
Headwinds
...Uphill battles are won and lost in the crosswinds
Gusts of defiance brazenly slap across the terrain
If a path is forged it must be carved with a machete
Steppingstones nothing but laughable after...
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Categories:
steppingstones, perspective,
Form: Free verse
The Weathering
...weathering storms is nothing new out in nature
or the streets
so dodge the hail sent from the clouds to keep
a semblance of your peace
when times are hard dig in & fall in love with all
the stru...
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Categories:
steppingstones, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme
Clear Pictures
...My dreams are teardrops from the eyes of the
divine
What I see are liquid visions from the eye within
my mind
Lucid pictures just flow from me so know the clarity
is mine
I'm a vessel of chan...
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Categories:
steppingstones, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme
Legacy
...Seeds may grow to blossom.
And fruits that came to us freely.
May go to feed the next generation.
The steppingstones of legacy
When it is time to die, we may discover.
That we had never fully ...
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Categories:
steppingstones, future, leaving, life, memorial,
Form: Sonnet
Go the Scenic Route
...i built steppingstones
to take a shortcut through life
time looked on aghast
By
David Kavanagh...
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Categories:
steppingstones, 4th grade, allegory, allusion,
Form: Haiku
Hey Diddle Riddle
...To quantify an equation,
takes more than mere calculation,
Take the sun and moon,
now consider they’re coordinations,
One 8 light minutes from earth,
other just a single light second,
Both ap...
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Categories:
steppingstones, allegory, allusion, humanity, life,
Form: Rhyme
Sacrificial Sun
...I am being sacrificed on the altar of sun
Color yellow sinks into my exposed skin
Reaching my arteries pumping red blood
Veins delivering back to the atmosphere
Carbon dioxide with me melted in i...
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Categories:
steppingstones, color, sun,
Form: Free verse
Butterfly Songs
...My words are so hard to find
With you so closely on my mind.
Together I want to ride this storm
But my whole life I have done this solo
I have learned to only re...
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Categories:
steppingstones, angst, fear, love,
Form: ABC
Rich In Spirit
...Rich in Spirit.
Rich is to be rich in spirit. To be known in heart, mind, body and soul. To be known to the core can only be known through spirit. With spirit comes love and a knowing beyond yoursel...
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Categories:
steppingstones, heaven, journey, spiritual, wisdom,
Form: Ballad
Importance of Me
..."Remember the importance of self,
And how each day offers to help
You and your dreams,
No matter how distant they seem
All are within reach,
For they are beseeched
Because inside you ther...
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Categories:
steppingstones, confidence, devotion, happiness,
Form: Rhyme
Soulmate Love
...Finding love is our unsure heart’s goal as edged on by our confident souls.
Some journey through life with love as their primary dream, only to give up after giving all to failures’ torturou...
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Categories:
steppingstones, best friend, devotion, happiness,
Form: Free verse
The Perfectionist Is Listening
...The Perfectionist is Listening
the rich are committing suicide
and taking us with them
the prosthetic limbed bastards
Fort Darwin tottering on fewer stilts
once the masters of the universe
pr...
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Categories:
steppingstones, slam, universe,
Form: Free verse
Sometimes:
...Sometimes:
A little Blake; and . . . a great big moon
Is all it takes
To walk each other home
To the tender side, the fragile side
Of our rude-winter Steppingstones....
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Categories:
steppingstones, age, friendship, grief, inspirational,
Form: Blitz
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