small steps

You like to think that the pages of the literary magazine you’ve published in are small steps toward notice and attention.

grand steps

Like steps up to a palace door, you know by the first few lines you’ve entered the realm of a poem.

stone steps

When reading a poem I want to feel as though I’m coming down stone steps, with some grand edifice at my back.

traveling call

If one could be called for ‘traveling’ in metrical poetry, he would have been called for steps.