Best Soles Poems

my shirts and shoes
are wearing out -
and they tell me 
I am too

I patch and glue 
to make them whole -
but fail 
to make them new

I have holes in my soles
and frayed treads on my edges -
but manage 
for the most part to get through

until...

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skeptical swollen soles
tracing dark toes
on vying veins
of tactic trains:
lofty lousy limbs
etched in ink

drastic dances dripping
on seeps scrunching
in jumpy jolly

mystic melody birthed
embroidered with will
virtuoso concerto crunching

sumptuous soles stretching
la-de-da limbs lurching.
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Musicians played classics as condemned marched under “ARBEIT MACHT FREI.”
Losing their “SOLES” and “SOULS” the future options for each gassee!

For every pair of empty leather “SOLES” you see,
they took a lovely “SOUL” away from you and me.

They also took their hair, gold teeth and skin,
piled...

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The smell of leather,
Stirs the Auschwitz warehouses:
Leather reminders.


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Inspired by the Auschwitz Shoes...

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Apex of mute dreams,
Rise above abandoned floors:
Pyramid of shoes.


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Inspired by the Auschwitz Shoes...

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“Soil Of Your Soles”
Descending to the darkness beneath the dirt we call Earth
Disappearing from the eyes that asked so many questions
Becoming forgettable as if my life never existed at all
It’s nothing new to feel alone for I have been my entire life

Lowering myself into the...

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I just can’t find the words,
To ease the pain you feel.
Please know that you are not alone,
And somehow time can heal.
My heart, how it breaks for you,
As tender teardrops fall.
We may never have the answers,
To understand it all.
When everything around you crashes,
The roots of faith...

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Diamonds are so cheap
only the excessive greed
of man, his profit
create a shortage of such,
gullibility a joy!

© Harry J Horsman  2013...

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Warm leather once danced on happy feet
Now cold and still abandoned by the wall
Lovers strolled along moonlit paths
The pairs now long gone into the past
Children played joyfully in the park 
Those shoes are carelessly tossed
Young and old marched to their death unshod
Leaving behind empty soles...

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whether you'll write just one address
on the road never guessed. When would it
raises sharp pointed exactly
on bare soles

this was still yesterday
we stand in the midst of the fire
you ignite. Your anger
so that wouldn't leave the rest
when the morning we completed

let's play at the end of...

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that never seem to get clean
even as I scrub you with gravel and
spittle you daily with complaints

you are content to knead the dirt
rejoice in it even every step
a sloppy kiss to newton

who ignored you
and courted an apple

but no matter these skies
of reaching hands and gaping...

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When they heard the drone of the jets
 They knew it was time to hide
 And find a safe place to escape the threat
 They knew they'd soon hear explosions outside

 Despite the war and its destructive sting
 They still did everyday things
 like going...

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Look familiar
Where you started from
Shoes laced you up
Made you come

Walking unknown streets
Stepping with future's feet
Mapquest to different times
Memories calling out
Like weathered chimes

Courted future and past
Strolled in the present
Shadowed footprints cast
Changed all directions
That will always last...

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Yesterday I saw my worn out sole 
The blue shoe has been housed in a bag of dust for long 
I packed it like an old gift 
And  followed the  path to the cobbler
But times have changed 
Mr old lanky cobbler no longer...

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Dark hard dark rubber shoe soles
jiggle up and down in boredom
classy, they’re the same he’ll wear
ten years from now, graduated,
at the office, still bored, wondering
where his youth went....

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