Best Shoemaker Poems

Limerick : Once Schuhmacher/Shoemaker from Brazilia

Once Schuhmacher/Shoemaker from Brazilia
Made a shoe shaped like the Ark of Noah
Birds and beasts of forests
Fought acarien* pests
Till toes itched: that’s how Man danced the Salsa!

* mite

© T. Wignesan – Paris, 2014...

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SHOEMAKER  DADDY  -  A  DUO-RHYME  (12 lines)


His workshop’s open now I see
He will not notice -  it’s just me.
His tools, his nails, his leatherware,
His hammers large and small are there, 
All  ready for his hands to bear
When he...

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Oh, Princess fairest of them all,
What troubles you, and what made you fall?

Why Shoemaker so handsome and tall,
I need new shoes, that's why I had a fall.
It's not for a dance or a ball you see,
It's just so I can walk around so beautifully.

Oh, lovely...

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