Tag Archives: shoe poems

Leaving Their Shoes Behind

Posted on April 30, 2021 by whimsygizmo

  There’s a pile of pumps at the peaceful passage leading to Wildling Wood.  They’ve kicked (off) up their heels and wielded their swords and let all that hair (golden and otherwise)down and traded their pointy crowns for flowers.  Now, they spend hours bare-foot loose and fancy -free, having also … Continue reading →

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Spilled, Shod

Posted on April 23, 2016 by whimsygizmo

This poem needs tiny shoes for each and every one of her iambic feet. She’s ’bout to hit the street and break dance her way across the c   o   n   c   r   e   t   e and play in the sprinklers. … Continue reading →

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Slanted Stories

Posted on October 24, 2015 by whimsygizmo

PublicDomainPictures.net  … He’s stood high on one too many beams, balanced reams and reams of paper -work, shirked days for nights and slighted his own for another way. Give him a hammer, some nails, a trail of holes to make … Continue reading →

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One for the Nut House

Posted on May 31, 2015 by whimsygizmo

. Oh, how I wanted to boil my hat, a sequence that made no sense to anyone outside my little cherry box. We were all as latelate -late as watches on chains and white rabbits can measure, a slow roiling … Continue reading →

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