Just Practicing

My shoes are the strong silent type in that
they rarely throw fits about the weather
as flip-flops do nor demand tit-for-tat
consideration when worn together
with socks.  It should come as little surprise
then that they’re white and grey, underemployed 
running shoes, meaning long strolls at sunrise
are just what they sound like: footsteps devoid
the prerequisite urgency to shift
directions as deemed necessary by
either myself or my feet when adrift
through trance-like stables of the butterfly
  where train engineers mimic the station
   of glacier-laced shoe-string transformation.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2017

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Daniel Avatar
March 14, 2017 at 9:53 AM
A nice sonnet, Phillip:)
Burch Avatar
March 11, 2017 at 3:16 PM
Phillip...your gift of fluidity is fantastic! Your life allegorical summation...the metaphors...and lines like: "...underemployed running shoes..." are all perfectly woven and convey so very much!! Well done my friend! Blessings to you!! Big Hugggs deb
Pigeon Tart Avatar
March 9, 2017 at 5:21 PM
I like this!
Garcia Avatar
March 11, 2017 at 2:56 PM
Gracias, Maureen :)
White Avatar
March 8, 2017 at 1:05 AM
Heh :) The poems we can write about shoes! Don't get me started on mine.... And oh yeah, not about shoes of course, but still.
Garcia Avatar
March 11, 2017 at 2:55 PM
Of course it's about shoes! Or maybe it wasn't :)
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