Best Waiting For The Other Shoe To Drop Poems

We are waiting for the giant shoe to drop
Smacking us to the sidewalk 
Then smashing us to smithereens
Because we have been taught to expect the...

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The Paths We Choose 
   by Edmund Siejka

When I was a young writer
I read all the greats
Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Yeats, James Joyce
And...

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Seems as if I have waited
In line or on hold on the phone
Where blatant disrespect is shown

No longer fast service to show 
courteous appreciation
Just wait,...

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Neither Tray or I take any guff from adults, especially adults in authority; it’s a result of having had the belt when you are young,...

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Slowing Down 

Electricity runs through my veins. 
It courses in waves,
from my head to my feet, 
and back. 
Why? 
Because I am ever, 
waiting for...

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I spend my life waiting
Waiting for what comes next
Waiting for the other shoe to drop
Waiting to be disappointed again
Or to have my heart broken
Always waiting,
Anticipating
Preparing...

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   In the half-light's gentle hue,
I find solace in the sighs of you,
as winking stars gossip of length of purpose, 
and width of...

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The way things use to be

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I was tying up her second shoe
when the second coming came.

The first had been the night before
when the bus demons dropped her off
to say they...

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many of us have a set of fears that we are trying to suppress
we are being held hostage by them and our testimony can't progress
It's...

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maybe you can learn to love me
but i don't know how i feel
about waiting around to see

i might be in love with a ghost
stuck on...

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make the voices go away
i cry silent tears that will not stop
time hangs over me like a cloud
i'm waiting for the other shoe to drop



AP:...

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I'm a nervous Nellie with good reasons you see.
 Many a time I've had the rug pulled out from under me..
There are quiet stretches where...

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At a time when we need people
Especially our loved ones the most
When we need affection, attention and love the most
When being together would mean everything

A...

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Looking back, I tell myself that you’re the one that got away, it’s not like you were a victim and I kidnapped you, not in...

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