Short Shoelaces Poems

Sometimes I feel down
I tie up my shoelaces
The road is my shrink...

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red green purple
and black candy shoelaces
hanging down his chin



posted on June 29, 1018...

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her beautiful
chest
of drawers

built
perfection
tongue and groove

bras
in her 
third drawer

panties
in the
fifth

undone
shoelaces
in the bottom one...

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I was smoking 
non-menthol cigarettes 
and tying my 
threadbare new 
balance 
shoelaces 
at the corner deli 
waiting in line 
to buy more non-menthol cigarettes....

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I put on my shoes one foot at a time 
I slipped them on Bungalow Man by tying shoelaces 
I stand I walk on after I stand


1/9/21
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr...

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"I tie the shoelaces together on my dead," says my local mortician, 
"because if a zombie apocalypse were ever to happen,
 it will most certainly be an hilarious situation."...

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When you kiss me
Like you love me
It makes my teeth itch
Palms rattle with the force
Of a hurricane
In your childhood room
Shoelaces knotted
Like a noose
Around my brain....

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release what
is tight

i undo
my

shoelaces
in place of

what 
are you

saying you're
not not

doing what
you used to

do this
is not

a finger
i don't 

care 
if you

do use
lube...

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Words are shoelaces
string them right 
and they allow you to move 
else they can trip you up.

Credit to: Rajendra Phdhi.

I rewrite it in Serynu:

Words are shoelaces
stringing them right so to move 
else can trip you up...

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I haven't built a house.
Nor spread tarmac onto roads.
I have not shot a brace of grouse.
Or planting veg in rows.

I am sitting on a comfy chair,
Which my old body embraces.
I become exhausted,
When bending down to tie my shoelaces....

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You
Like 
String
Cheese
And 
I 
Laughed 
When
The
Thought
Came
To
Me
It is just imitation shoelaces
I thought about how disillusioned
You became
And I tried to tell you
How to change the way
You see the world
And tie
The
Bad 
Stuff
Up
With 
String 
cheese...

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Gravity leaps
Flood of merchants across borders
Meddle with shoelaces-
Government ties a baker's dozen
As a secure future treds 

But lightly outbursting pounded
Chest metal shed, I grew tall
Seeing it all unfold
While wandering feet back across borders sped...

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Feet slip into shoes
Like CINDERELLA when she
Puts on delicate, luminous 
Glass slippers
We're a perfect pair
Like two symmetrical shoes 
No need to tie shoelaces!  
We're sparkling bright
Like precious, glass slippers 
We're the dazzling moon in the night
We're the perfect pair! Yeppers!...

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That palm-smeared red flower
blossoming down your fingers;
reminding you of when tying shoelaces 
was an accomplishment.
When falling down wasn't a blessure,
but a scrap
- a prize worthy of adhesive
and swift kiss.

It is the instinct to lean back
and (*) give yourself an aneurysm.

*swallow; to take back what was once yours....

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untied shoelaces
runners to their mark
legs are now bout to hurt
ran past the day unto the dusk
runners to their mark
beating is my heart
ran past the day unto the dusk
got trip up
beating is my heart
legs are now bout to hurt
got trip up
untied shoelaces

7/28/20
written words by James Edward Lee Sr.© 2020...

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Look what you have done to my shoelaces, Fluffy!
Now that's hardly a  nice thing to do.
There are things in this world, from a twig to a bone,
that are more admirably suited to chew.

I don't wish to be hypercritical, Fluffy.
You might easily have done something worse,
but there are things in this world, which,  not done up,
lead one all too soon to a hearse....

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Worn strung out shoelaces; 
Hostile human remains;
With ceramic faces; 
I'm withdrawing; 
Beaten up by the law;
Where is your God;
Help us all;
Replace my shoes; 
With the wing around my neck;
Gives me purpose;
He's tested the sweat of my feet;
He says I'm a sinner forgiven;
Mercy's Grace has risen;



8/18/20
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2020...

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I can still hear the laughter. 
Feel that creeping burn I get
When I realize I've made a fool of myself.
Again.

I can never figure out the right thing to say,
Always feel a touch out of rhythm:
Take a third step to their two
Or trip over my shoelaces.

I just want to prove that I'm as grown as they are,
I'm as cool as they are,
I'm as nonchalant as they are,
I've got it all figured out just like they do....

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unraveling back, 
backwards unraveled.

  into the backyard running
with the backbone buried.

  running upright in a pair of 
 floppy tounged sneakers.
 
  koolaid stained lips smiling
 jumping over the mudpuddles. 

  splashing into the mud 
  my clay child running 
 with shoelaces untied.

  unraveling back twenty five
 years watching a little red head
 running around.

  the yard is different but the hair is the same....

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BOO!
~



a toothless pumpkin

is perched on a porch railing….

the dentist's office

~


wearing a top hat,  

a snowman knocks on the door….

our dinner grows cold

~

tiny witch struggles

to tie her black shoelaces….

good-will vampire

~

porch lights are dimmed

after the midnight hour…..

goblins are tucked in

~

dark streets overflow

with sugar coating of frost…..

clown with tummy ache



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i cannot hide the aching in my heart
the way i am missing you is so far off the chart

the way you make me feel is similar gladness
i love the way your presence dissipates my sadness

my life now consists of a bunch of yellow happy faces
i now straighten my posture up and honestly tie my shoelaces

i hold a bouquet of blue roses in my left hand
i attempt to stifle stubborn tears while waiting for your plane to land...

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whereby shall the young shelter their skin
without a home to hire their hand
a moments rest beside a beggar and trash can
young years spent inside a starving soul
much of faith was lost beyond control
harlot housewives tease their baffled hair
children with rich parents spit on their shoelaces
calling them ugly neglected ducks
the gamin are children neglected
who roam the streets and wish upon broken stars magnified by streetlights...

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"SHE MADE A MESS AND THEN IT SPILLED"

lies, lies, lies.
tears, tears, tears.
I'm sorry, I'm sorry,
I'm sorry.
I'll pick you up at ten.
I need to do laundry.
off to Wal-Mart we go
where we buy nothing.
we arrive at the laundromat,
mad,
irritated,
on edge,
shoelaces ready to snap.
she drops her soda,
I run as she cleans 
and return with a refill.
her mess is now my mess.
damn!
men weren't wired fairly.


By: Chicano Eddie
8-10-2016...

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Little girls in dresses
Kittens in their arms,
Ribbons in their tresses 
Bracelets with charms

Kittens in their arms 
Dolly by her side,
Bracelets with charms 
Shoelaces always tied

Dolly by her side 
In a dress like hers,
Shoelaces always tied 
And the kitty purrs

In a dress like hers
Not one speck of dust,
And the kitty purrs 
Attention is a must

Not one speck of dust 
Ribbons in their tresses, 
Attention is a must 
Little girls in dresses. 
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I know her shoelaces do not have loops
They may be used as spaghetti in soups
A girl who dreams, are tired of getting hurt
Each kiss and hug felt right, but she kept alert

Her words on paper, dreams of a better place
A frustrating feeling has participated in the game with grace
Accepting does not mean losing hope, the eagle is flying high
Her eyes were always smiling, now she whispers goodbye











24.08.2017
Sun :) - A-L Andresen :)
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