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Take A Step Back Poems - Poems about Take A Step Back

Stop, Slow Down, Forward And Step Back
Life is short Don't forget to stop often Enjoy the scenery along the way. Don't let the rhythm of life trap you Slow down occasionally And enjoy a moment of peace. May you have the courage To move forward once And the tolerance to step back....

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Categories: take a step back, courage, happiness, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Step Back In Time
A step back in time when verandas had rocking chairs purposely placed in the sunlight; waiting for Grandma to sit, and rock until darkness descended. (#1)...

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Categories: take a step back, age, grandmother, home, image,
Form: Verse



A Step Back to Egypt
I wasn't a native in the land, but I blended in wasn't a place I called home, but I dwelt it simply a misfit trying to fit in a victim of circumstance a weakened soul that knew no resistance adapted to the cruelty and swore my allegiance In the mist of the pain I found closure despite the stress, i took...

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Categories: take a step back, emotions, love,
Form: Rhyme
Step Back
I don’t smoke, snort, or pop any pills, and don’t drink like a fish anymore. I don’t go partying all night long, girl, not like I used to do before. I don’t need to be that ramblin’ man, I am a lover not a fighter. I prefer to play some safer games, now that I am older and wiser. But honey if that’s...

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Categories: take a step back, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I was thinking, and maybe it's time to step back and simply detach, to say
I was thinking, and maybe it's time to step back and simply detach, to say: "Let them lose you." I've poured my essence into someone who never perceived the contours of my value. It's not about giving up, but about cultivating self-respect, Love should be a two-way street, and clinging to someone who doesn't reciprocate only bestows more...

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Categories: take a step back, fantasy,
Form: Free verse



Step Back
Step Back… “Lynette, you are here to rise above your own suppression…” Create a new way on Mother Earth… If not you then who??? You are the Magnet… Draw to you… Your Power… If it’s not right -no justification -no Blame… Send Love healing… Let it go… Rise the Sun… Fully on… Focused… Kind… It’s ok to know… What's not ok… Surrounded by Love… Womb still warm… Family… Step back it’s the...

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Categories: take a step back, i am, light, muse,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member One Step Back Two Steps Forward
Cryptography is so interesting, A art I would love to know. So I've set you all this challenge, I hope you give it a go. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z JTF USMUC UFJQ MGURMC QSAXMC JTF ...

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Categories: take a step back, fun, riddle, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme
Two Steps Forward, One Step Back
Two steps forward, one step back, Grateful just to be on track. Goodness knows the price of that, Two steps forward, one step back. Always hanging by a thread, Pushing to the very edge, Fighting demons in my head, Always hanging by a thread. Little changes day by day, Struggling just to play the game, Some would quit, but I will stay, For little changes...

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Categories: take a step back, courage, endurance, grief, growth,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Step Back
[Inspired by Carolyn Derbyshire’s ‘Footprints’ contest but too long] For Dr Bartholomew Green There’s little that he hasn’t seen But here on this Jurassic coast Is the place that he relishes most These imprints so frequently found All over this beach do abound Like clues that the dinosaurs sent To show where they've been, where they went These steps of a huge Allosaurus Which paced...

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Categories: take a step back, history, science,
Form: Rhyme
Sonnet 68 'It's Fine, I Will But Bow and Then Step Back'
It’s fine – I will but bow and then step back, And know the lips that kiss yours won’t be mine A man knows better than to see a lack, When gifts of other virtue toward him shine. And yet, love dies not easily in me, But longs for what I cannot, may not, have. Though life’s Reality I clearly see, My...

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Categories: take a step back, loss, love, love hurts,
Form: Sonnet
Step Back Alzheimer
flood of emotions drifts with drought of memories step back Alzheimer...

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Categories: take a step back, age, deep, emotions, health,
Form: Haiku
Two Steps Forward, One Step Back
What's up with all these walking dead Who stagger all around our bed? Uninterested in beef stew, They'd rather munch on me and you. These lurching corpses swarm the land. They feast on flesh with nothing planned. They hunt the living, eat their brains. They're undeterred by snow or rain. These mindless zombies stumble on, A decomposing marathon, Two steps forward, one step back, A pitiful,...

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Categories: take a step back, halloween, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Rice Transplanting
Rice seedlings in hand, I transplant rice in the paddy field, And as I lower my head I see the sky that water does yield. For a good harvest, the roots must be kept pure and clean, Moving forward is what stepping back does really mean. (tran.)...

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Categories: take a step back, metaphor, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
Step Back
Step back to move forward, Step back to appreciate, Step back to see the big picture, Step back to avoid the precipice. Step back stay in good health, Step back before you lose all your wealth, Step back before you become addicted, Step back before your tongue runs away with you. Step back to collect your thoughts, Step back when the law requires it, Step...

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Categories: take a step back, art, character, cheer up,
Form: Imagism
Step Back
It often seems That people have need To just some how Take a step back For the lack Of looking ahead They find they are not Where they wanted to be Now it is too late And there isn’t a way To get back to where They have the need to be They have the want To have a way To get back to where They didn’t look ahead...

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Categories: take a step back, poetry,
Form: Free verse

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