Best Shoestring Poems

#1
warehouse board and care
elderly housed in neglect -
ass kicking death camps

#2
inner city schools
vertical playing fields free -
only teachers taxed

#3
bigots block poor votes,
“limbo rock” the new...

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It don’t really matter   

If Plaster of Paris is not made in France
If Ginger and Fred never learned how to dance
If shoestring potatoes...

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I attended a large gathering and took some time
to observe the great assortment of shoes stacked on the racks
I saw new shoes, pricey shoes, and...

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They don’t get it, bunch of fools
Don’t they see how the media drools
Over each and every tweet
Crafted not to be discreet.

Are they blind to my...

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Everyone does it time to time in each day
From your careless mistakes to a child at play
Sneaking the babysitter's cigarettes
Having that stray dog follow you...

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How can I say what is on my heart
A heart that grew up on a farm day and night
It beat with respecting others
Our black neighbor...

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Who knew that I would need
shoestrings to escape rape?
I felt safe on a double date, 
the “safety in numbers” misnomer.

He came on like a ten-armed
octopus...

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Alarm clock screams, it's time to rise,
bye bye sleepy dreams, into the lows from last night's highs,
ready yourself for the line or the cubicle cage,
tell...

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Shoes

Support me on heavy sunken soil

Sanctify my journey’s secret solace

Save me from blistered scarred sorrow

Show my give and take in solemn stride

Sound the creaks and...

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Buckfast and concrete slabs
Neds and rain and thoughts of dad.
Highflats, pigeons, pavement's hue
Subway makes me think of you.

City City City lights
stream on by
flashin neons reds...

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They find me here, 
a flickering vestige,
under incandescent 
pendulum lighting 
that was not long ago 
strung up and tied 
to the center beam
 
of an...

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A    SPECIAL    CHRISTMAS

Families should be together on Xmas day
Some kids’ folks are wealthy
They work abroad, but they never 
Fail...

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*Not sure my relaxed attitude to rhyme and form is passable in this one, but I enjoyed writing it :) *

I've always loved to look...

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My breath once scattered seeds of dandelions.
I stared in moments lost to grains of sand.
Walked among the nighttime stars in wonder;
Held golden leaves within my...

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on a shoestring diet only going around in circles ~ yo yo 

inside a huge tornado just somewhere over the rainbow ~ toto

happily oblivious on...

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