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Best Waiting For The Other Shoe To Drop Poems


Premium Member The Paths We Choose
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 so on
I could write like them I said
So I felt good about myself
And wrote a play
In the heat of August,...

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Categories: waiting for the other shoe to drop, life,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Waiting
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, wait, wait
Without consideration

Take a number
Life is what this is
Waiting for something
Or anything
Or nothing

Waiting for the other shoe to drop
Waiting to...

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Categories: waiting for the other shoe to drop, introspection,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Part 2 You Have To Whistle
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, thus learning you cannot trust your care-givers or anyone else.
In case there is any doubt in your mind here, every...

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Categories: waiting for the other shoe to drop, child abuse, giving, i
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Premium Member Slowing Down
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 the other shoe to drop. 
I heard the first one, 
but there are nearly always two. 

Big mistakes made in...

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© Ann Foster  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: waiting for the other shoe to drop, adventure, age, angel, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Waiting
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 myself for the next tragedy
Or heartache
And I'm not really living
I'm just surviving
I mean, what kind of life can you have
When...

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Categories: waiting for the other shoe to drop, life, loneliness, lost,
Form: Free verse
FireFlower


   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 possibilities that
challenge us-
as one of love's melodies beginning 
to surface- as renewal remedy,
a phoenix returned, tuned in to propose 
recognition...

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Categories: waiting for the other shoe to drop, art,
Form: Rhyme



The Way Things Use To Be
The way things use to be

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Categories: waiting for the other shoe to drop, brother, conflict, dog, family,
Form: ABC
To Have No Fear This Year
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 not a matter that concerns one's age, status or even one's race
It's about running around in a forest of fears...

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Categories: waiting for the other shoe to drop, faith, hope, inspirational, introspection,
Form: Carpe Diem
Premium Member My Head In a Cloud
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 a distant memory of
how love's supposed to be

i'm waiting for the other shoe to drop
yet all the while feeling safe
that...

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Categories: waiting for the other shoe to drop, anxiety, feelings, introspection, longing,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Time Stops
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: Honorable Mention 2022

Posted on July 7, 2022...

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Categories: waiting for the other shoe to drop, anxiety, cry, future, time,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Waiting For the Other Shoe
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 I attempt to heal and
everything is co-pathetic, at an even keel..
Abruptly the rains come down and it's never
just a spittle.
It's...

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Categories: waiting for the other shoe to drop, anxiety,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member The One That Got Away
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 a criminal kind of way
But as I recollect, I’m glad that you left, because back then I didn’t realize it...

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Categories: waiting for the other shoe to drop, cry, dark,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member She Is Here She Is Alive
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 pandemic is forcing us apart 
In fear we are waiting for the other shoe to drop
Bioterrorism at her best, at...

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Categories: waiting for the other shoe to drop, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Manual
Where was your manual for me.
The mandatory rehabilitation.
Ignorance is bliss and you had built up frustration. Aggravation.
Where was your patience.


Waiting for the other shoe to drop contemplating.
we needed a manual for the situation.
That’s all i’m saying.
On the other hand where was the contribution.
lost for words...

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Categories: waiting for the other shoe to drop, education, introspection, love, parents,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things