Short Loafers Poems

black ugly loafers
are old fashioned, out of style
looks fine on bare feet

Copyright © 2010 By Caryl S. Muzzey...

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I tie my shoes in a double bowed knot
Unfortunately I'm wearing penny loafers

2/26/18
by James Edward Lee Sr.2018©...

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Nature in it's most peaceful form
Wolves at rest so quick to transform
When hunger takes over
No longer quiet loafers
Becoming ravenous beasts on the hunt...

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When I was, the age of twenty.
My dancing was admired plenty.
Only one dance shoe,
worked magic for you. 
Brown loafers with shiny penny

©  Feb 2011 for SKats "Favorite shoe"Contest...

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Hula hoops and pedal pushers
Baseball cards and Slinkies
Penny loafers and bobby sox
Pony tails and a dime jukebox

Where are all the fads today --
But for video games we play --
Electronic devices all the rage
Hi-tech gadgets, center stage...

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I need my cradle the best to know:
That my father was a Lord’s servant meek,
And mum a clergy of endowments lean,
Who her Master’s will loves to seek.
I should never with loafers’ escort find my joy,
But in devotion to labor and toil discover my call.
And all urges that I be calm and coy
Must be trashed to the nearest bin....

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Life; is strictly a matter for the powers 
that be, and their process. 
Individuals, are only part of the leader’s
grand vision.

Be at peace; and when you return to your 
home, reflect on the great leader’s words:

“the place of the individual in our modern 
society, is underneath my Gucci loafers, “

Long live the great leader and his family!...

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Frogs like open toad shoes I'm told
Swamps might be where crocs are landing
A ninja likes to wear sneakers
Large shoes show good understanding!

The boss always looks for loafers
Detectives lean toward gumshoes
You'll see pumps in a hardware store
Clogs are what a plumber will choose

But sometimes people go barefoot
And though shoes do look kind of neat
Nothing is quite as comfortable
As when there are none on your feet!...

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My toes hurt so 
in my loafers soggy,

            can't be soothed 
            even by this drunken glee;

                                my empty beer can 
                                       tumbles noisily
                                      down some shadowy, 
                               smog-darkened alley;

            I've got nowhere 
            to lose myself into,

aching again to get 
a kick or two....

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I will follow you
in no comfortable shoes
but leather loafers
stumble on rocks and cracks
ignoring my blisters

I will follow you
in no health or well-being
but bedbound
write your story
with an IV in my arm

You are the medicine
flowing in my veins
the endorphins in my brain
the end to my means
the wellness I aim for

I will follow you
with my feet and my heart
like the shadows of my hopes
I will follow you
in any way I can...

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Conceived of wool and birthed Siamese
In grand factories by hands unheard.
My socks move into separate drawers
Like orphaned siblings.

Soon
Each of my six pairs are strangers
that move in perfect lockstep
inside loafers in offices, brogues in churches and Chucks in clubs.
Then—

For nights’ sakes, on the floor;
Rolled rainbows of imperfect donuts.
Who thinks of unmatched socks 
while he sucks in his gut to be a body stacked atop another,
to love?...

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An Candid Answer To the Boss

By Elton Camp

The boss saw Roscoe daydreaming
So stopped at his desk, screaming

“To do work you have been hired.
Lazy loafers are likely to be fired!”

“What excuse can you possibly give
So you neglect of duty I can forgive?”

Not any lying word did Roscoe try
“I didn’t notice you coming is why.”

“If your approach I did see,
I’d have been busy as a bee.”

The boss showed a scowl, then a grin
“For such honesty, you are my friend.”...

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Slide-out Coke machines
Bubble gum baseball cards
Superman/Batman comics
Full service gas stations
25 cents a gallon
Dial phones
AM radio
Fats Domino
Black & white TV
Rabbit-ear antennae
Three channels
I Love Lucy
Drive-in movies
Double dating
Drive-in diners
10 cent hot dogs
Saddle Oxfords
Penny Loafers
Vacation bible school
Homemade playgrounds
Barefoot summers
A dollar was a fortune...

No cable
No Internet
No cell phones
No problem......

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The day’s a little chilly
(This touch of autumn rocks!)
Yet I will not capitulate
By putting on some socks.

The sun is brightly shining,
But on my bedroom floor
My sandals wonder why they haven’t
Made it out the door.

Though technically, it’s summer,
The temps did make me choose
A pair of canvas loafers
As today’s best pair of shoes.

Yet still, I’m just not ready
For my ankles to retreat.
They’ll enjoy some last hurrahs,
A celebration of de-feet!...

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Someone is wearing brown shoes.
Ones that look like
penny loafers, ones that look like 
blue shoes. Beige slacks and scrubs
lifted and carried them into new
shoes, and there are a million shoes
coming in and out
the revolving doors.

Conversation 
flickers and illuminates
into busy back-up binds
that throw up into
reality.

Plasters of plastic white-on-white 
skin. With small detailed letterings
of a label, a label, and
numbers... with a finger that
beckons you to,
"Follow Me."...

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There are five likely females                  
(not counting the barmaid),
plus a few calculating men.
There are others,
dead-eyed drinkers
and such, who don’t count.

Time to figure odds.
The five likely women,
followed by the calculating dudes,
schlep each other out the door.

Not counting the barmaid,
I subtract myself
then add the daytime loafers.
The drunks have pissed away
each other’s money
and are out of luck again.

It’s time to strike,
I count the barmaid in....

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