Short Shoelace Poems

i was just about
to take a step
through the
gates when 
one of my
shoelace
s broke...

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pick me first
shine my boots
shoelace dirt
boxed
in
a
hearse
pick me first
?...

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Haste pick up your pace,
devour fast food for a taste,
trip over shoelace,
try not to make a mistake,
in our labyrinth rat race.



4-11-17...

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Goliath stood up straight and tall
But David knew that he would fall
Goliath was stoned
And everyone groaned
His shoelace tripped him after all!...

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I'm no dead
So I could

Fly to the moon
Singing some funny tune
With White ribbon in my head
And broad smile on my face
Hanging on a shoelace
Drowning in shiny lagoon

I could...
But I can't
- Why?

The roses ain't red!...

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Every day Sparkles
Plays with a shoelace
It could be short or long
I giggle it she catches it
Or pulls it on the floor

She would jump on it
Sometimes she plays
alone
Yet most of the time 
We play shoelace together
Several times every day...

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What little boy
Smiling toothpaste
Tying shoelace
Flower wheat-paste
Wearing this
What little boy
What a gift
Brown grapes
Little boy ate
What? Oh!, for heaven sake......
What little boy
Made this mess?


3/11/18
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. ©2018...

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You cannot tell Me 
not to run
just because My shoelace is undone.

Do You not remember
that the time We rode Our bikes
Together,
it was My helmet You borrowed?

Tell Me not Your concerns
when You care not of Mine.

For it is too late now,
the race has begun

and I am almost finished....

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In front of your door
I paced,
Stooped down and retied
My shoelace,
13- the number
That was glazed,
Rung your doorbell since your keys
Had been replaced.

Once the door opens
In a haste,
And you'll stare at it
In amaze,
With a motive of
A nutcase,
I'll smash a birthday cake
Right in your face....

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Mind erase 
this money we chase
mind erase
this money we chase
these terms we are born to debt we face
different but the same case
the good life we want a taste
stick together like paste 
like a knotted up shoelace 
so you don't trip in the race
come in first place
kept a steady pace 
win with grace
Mind erase 
this money we chase
mind erase
this money we chase.    -TA...

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the new shirt with an unironed crease
the slice of thorn against thumb
ear against the bass speaker
whispering at the shadows
hoping something appears
My business is are
Hold the lunar for a tic
my mad has never been ness
no iota of the id
people are
strangled
if your a strangler
your faces are ugly
did you get them on loan
We of the ird
Pass me by
as you stare at the street
one of us was lucky we didn't meet...

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Little Girls and little Boys
With locks and curls and shoelace twirls
Songs of play, with giggles aloud
The little Girls curtsey, the little Boys bow

Rosy cheeks that dance all day
Nighttime prayers,, three words to say
Tears of joy, or just to share
Touching one and all that care

Blessed with beauty from above
In a face that's filled with Love
Always eager to give, smile
This special gift, the gift of Child

Brenda Elizabeth Rose...

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They’d never been tied, forever were loose, 
Whenever she walked around,
Always flapping all over the place, 
Flip flopping all over the ground,

Without a care for the boots they were on, 
Not caring for their job to be done,
Not caring if she walked around really slow, 
Or if she sped up to a run,

Until, one day, they both ran away, 
Both laces caught a plane off to Rome,
Where they both laced through a beautiful shoe, 
In a place that they now call home....

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Yeah
The rent due
Yeah no lights
No cable
No phone.
Wine?
Yessir.
Pills?
You betcha.
Not empty like a nirvanian mind,
But empty, like birthday, or Xmas, envelopes. 
Happy happy joy joy,
The sky remains the same. 
The blue is in fact
A farmer who has chickens
Who wont lay eggs, 
Or can't. 
Can't, like a cat can't bark or
Can't like a bird can't navigate a bow via rain or shoelace. 
Blue is black when black is all you can see
On a clear chilly autumn cloudless day....

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