Get Your Premium Membership

Best Shoe Poems

Below are the all-time best Shoe poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of shoe poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Will You Tie My Shoes When I Grow Old
You were beautiful, 
my tiny child, 
wrapped tightly in my arms, 
close to my heart.
I listened to you breathing.
I counted your fingers
and your toes.
Helpless, 
you...

Read more of this work...
Categories: shoe, caregiving, childhood, daughter, growing
Form: Narrative



Premium Member I Think of You - An Alternative Universe - 6
From childhood it was a world of two...you and I...
I leaned lightly, leisurely against your heart and you let me in.

We were five I use...

Read more of this work...
Categories: shoe, best friend, cute love,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Sundown Meditation
Take a deep breath
Let yourself relax
Close your eyes
Come with me

Inhale
Exhale

Let me guide you
I’ll take you on a magical journey

Give in to the moment
Relax
Breathe
Close your eyes

You’re...

Read more of this work...
Categories: shoe, adventure, freedom, journey, peace,
Form: Free verse
Poetry For Poets: I Own This- Edition
Well hopefully you've read the last "Poetry for Poets", now here's the one I wanted to write, enjoy...

POETRY FOR POETS 
(I own this- edition)

Poems
more organic...

Read more of this work...
Categories: shoe, creation, metaphor, poems, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Shoes
My shoes have traveled miles of roads
Their soles are worn quite thin
Struggling with this heavy load
I carry deep within
Beyond repair, no longer shine
Scuffed with many...

Read more of this work...
Categories: shoe, appreciation, perspective,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member John F Kennedy - Martin Luther King Jr - Robert F Kennedy and Donald Duck
it was the sixties
we were young
we were going to change the world
spin it like a basketball on our finger
take the three point shot 
win the...

Read more of this work...
Categories: shoe, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
A Bad Day At the Eye Doctor's- a True Story
"It was 6 or 7 years ago
Or so I'd like to think
I traveled to my eye doctor..
(I should'a seen a "shrink"!!)

My dad and I we...

Read more of this work...
© Tom Bell  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: shoe, funny, life, mystery, me,
Form: Burlesque
Premium Member Train of Thought
Am I dreaming 
or have I dreamt myself awake
I can’t seem to discern 
between real and fake
What’s right 
What’s wrong
which direction 
should I take
Am I...

Read more of this work...
Categories: shoe, allusion, anxiety, child, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Heart Regifted
Forgive me for loving you, even though you never asked,
a secret kept like a pebble in my shoe, now smarting.
If heart dares to belong, it's...

Read more of this work...
Categories: shoe, desire, forgiveness, friend, motivation,
Form: Villanelle
Premium Member Finding Bigfoot
For BigFoot I searched everywhere.
In all the Northwest, he’s not there!
Then I thought I might know
where a BigFoot might go . . .
so I went...

Read more of this work...
Categories: shoe, funny love,
Form: Limerick
Where Barren Branches Touch Newborn Leaves
Scurrying on my way home, a little leaf catches my eye, and I am compelled yet again to slow down.

a whirlwind of thoughts
compete with swaying...

Read more of this work...
Categories: shoe, absence, introspection, leaving, life,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Angels and Demons
"Angels & Demons"




The Soul never sleeps
battered and lonely, the lesson 
Life spent in The Hard Sell

Soft-served you become
melting Insomnia 
mouth sucking a loaded gun

blue ribbonned...

Read more of this work...
Categories: shoe, abuse, addiction, angel, depression,
Form: Free verse
The Tale of Miss Jenny Prime
Let me tell you the story of Miss Jenny Prime,
who spent all of her days making everything rhyme.
It was thought she’d outgrow this strange childhood...

Read more of this work...
Categories: shoe, funnynight, night, , cute,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Look Back At Eighteen Months Here-The Show Is Over
A Look Back at Eighteen Months Here-The Show is Over

When your poems reside in a shoe,
like mine,
pounding the pavement to nowhere.
The onset of blisters isn't...

Read more of this work...
Categories: shoe, change, sad, mental health,
Form: Free verse
What I Think
Honey it's probaly not best befor I have
a drink.
To look deep in my eyes and ask what 
I think.

Cause Im  far from a romantic...

Read more of this work...
Categories: shoe, funny
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs