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Shoestrings Poems - Poems about Shoestrings

Premium Member New Shoes
...Do you know, You can melt your shoes? I bet your mother never told you that! So, I will tell you now, Rubber melts when held to the fire. The fire gobbles up the shoes......

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Categories: shoestrings, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Perspective of Nonsense
...Once upon a time but not so long ago, A man sat by a pond dangling his big toe. A rather large fish enjoying his daily swim, Noticed the mans big toe that kept enticing him. The man saw the f......

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Categories: shoestrings, appreciation, fishing, imagery, river,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member If Kidnappers Grab Me
...If kidnappers grab me, I will kick out their tail lights Put my hand out and wave to other drivers on the freeway If this does not work, I will kick the trunk until it pops open I will wave down t......

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Categories: shoestrings, 4th grade, 5th grade,
Form: Light Verse
Everything Is Everything
...Ancient ones present me the wisdom Allow me be influenced by the intuitive I Ching Fall for nothing, stand for something I value myself too much just to be someone's fling Always portrayed an ins......

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Categories: shoestrings, bird, black african american,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Essence
...their eyes they flutter or is it propel either way a subtle prelude to a kiss out of sync their conversation an amalgamation of giggles and smiles more telepathy between hearts than a......

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Categories: shoestrings, deep, first love, kiss,
Form: Free verse



Institutionalized
... A lot of time has passed since freedom was part of the daily routine Eat when you wanna eat, sleep when you wanna sleep Go whenever you wanna go to the latrine No need to have to ask......

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Categories: shoestrings, freedom, perspective, truth, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Defending My Virtue
...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 with suction cup hands. The couple ......

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Categories: shoestrings, abuse,
Form: Free verse
My Promise, My Nation
...The sky was lit by blinding light But, not sunlight The panorama was painted with darting pellets But, not of rain rivulets The ground quivering under flitting feet But, not earthquake The hori......

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Categories: shoestrings, bereavement, care, career, military,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Waiting Room Jitters
...Patients in and out within the backdrop of muted rose walls, blue carpet, dark wood and purple plaid textiles. As faces changed, colors clashed. One young girl wore scarlet shoestrings and a gold......

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Categories: shoestrings, husband, imagery, sick,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Shoestrings
...the balcony a bird tugs at my clean shoestrings......

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Categories: shoestrings, nature,
Form: Haiku
Lace Shoestrings To Tie a Smile
...Mesmerizing eyes shaded behind the draw blinds. My lips are tied with giggling lace, to mute and smudge absent a feel. A cold fragment, jagged and warped into razor ends. A piece I believed to be ......

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Categories: shoestrings, beauty, romance,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member My Most Memorable Christmas Gift
...It was many years ago that I sat there on the floor With Aunt Allie and my cousins, we knew what was in store. The clan was gathered there around the Christmas tree Just eagerly awaiting their Chr......

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Categories: shoestrings, childhood, christmas, love, christmas,
Form: Rhyme
Watching
...I watched I watched when I was younger, a woman lose her life To a man, to a rock, to a knot, and never become a wife. I watched when I was seven the most beautiful woman alive She was oh......

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Categories: shoestrings, daughter, depression, life, loss,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Twinsouls' Abiding Request
...l. it was seven octobers of knowing you through refrains of musk earth and rosette skies , we lay with hands outstretched under a family of flowering trees riddled with moonlit pearls feasting on l......

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Categories: shoestrings, hope,
Form: Lyric
They Flock In Groups of Three
...They flock in groups of three and feast on shattered molecules. They nag at your shoestrings, waiting for the moment you become vulnerable. They will gnaw at your pulsating membranes, leave a m......

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Categories: shoestrings, allegory, death, depression, introspection,
Form: Free verse

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