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Shoeshine Poems - Poems about Shoeshine

Premium Member Where Is a Womans Place
...Gee, how we blame our culture for starting this! Oh, how ignorant can we be! We blame men as evil and macho? Yet we drooled when younger over Ralph Macchio. Ask any woman who gets up at three!......

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Categories: shoeshine, conflict, home, women, work,
Form: Rhyme
Shoelaces and Change of Climate
...I first noticed a change in Climate, When my shoes started to outlast their laces, Which I thought unusual at the time, As I had come to think of it as an unwritten law, Probably one of Murphy's,......

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Categories: shoeshine, age, analogy, appreciation, beauty,
Form: Burlesque



Premium Member Canary Collusion
...It was after Mom’s dad passed her mom bought canaries. Grams felt life less lonely, I think, with their singing, and gave her idea that flying the coop to live close to my mom could be Southland f......

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Categories: shoeshine, humor, political, race, ,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Shot In His Behind
...Wendell just getting off work, And was headed home by way of his favorite place to chill, a lively place called Pharaoh’s bar & grill. With the hope of winning, his retirement one day, Wendel......

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Categories: shoeshine, confidence, fate, happiness, humor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Woman's Place Is In the Home
...Gee, how we blame our culture for starting this! Oh, how ignorant can we be! We blame men as evil and macho? Yet we drooled when younger over Ralph. Macchio. Ask any woman who gets up at three......

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Categories: shoeshine, america, family, home, humorous,
Form: Rhyme



A Bigger Slice of Sky
...A Bigger Slice of Sky The sky was only visible in long narrow slices while we played on one-way Brooklyn streets Thick with kids apartment houses one next to the other lined the sidew......

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Categories: shoeshine, city, growth, moving on,
Form: Free verse
No Umbrella
...There is always something to write about I don’t know what you are talking about There is always something to write about So take out your pen and spell it out I was trying to book a ticket for a......

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Categories: shoeshine, anxiety, appreciation, beautiful, business,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member A Look Back At Eighteen Months Here-The Show Is Over
...A Look Back at Eighteen Months Here-The Show is Over When your poems reside in a shoe, like mine, pounding the pavement to nowhere. The onset of blisters isn't imagined. Those blisters take ro......

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Categories: shoeshine, change, sad, mental health,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Lost Dear Your Forest Cries
...My Lost Dear Our Forest Cries Our forest cries My little dear In spite of tears The lone nature does howl On one side sits a lake with ducks Sitting along the tree line of life And under bu......

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Categories: shoeshine, lost love, , cute,
Form: Free verse
S, J
...Shoeshine Joe. Thruppence for a shoeshine, that's what Joe will shout. Tuppence for a bulling up as he smiles and looks about. Drumming up trade these days is harder than before his dad was a l......

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Categories: shoeshine, children, fun,
Form: Rhyme
Cosmic Shoeshine
...this one goes out to all you symbolphrenics wink wink light the fuse and bow only before your own image for we are each a TV studio with really huge detector molecules recall that consciousness ......

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Categories: shoeshine, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
The Time Between
...Golden grace, Mirror and shoeshine, Down at dawn, Casting shadows, Like hands tick-tocking, Tick–tocking, Tick-tick-tocking, Bells, Like bombs wait, Wait waiting, Wait wait waiting, In cor......

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Categories: shoeshine, day, night,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Shoe Shine Boy
...Hey boy Shoeshine boy Shoeshine boy Why you whistle s......

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Categories: shoeshine, happiness, pride, symbolism, boy,
Form: Free verse
Underdog
...Saturday mornings extra early I would rise, Watch as my hero would sail through the skies. Eating my corn puffs, with you I’d cheer, “There’s no need to fear, Underdog is here. “ With Simon Bar......

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Categories: shoeshine, adventure, child, dog, flying,
Form: Rhyme
The Tantalizing Rabbit
...The rabbit here attached so tightly that it engages with delight. How the butterflies in the trees resemble the birds mirage. Light as air in the drift. They make their waves appear. W......

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Categories: shoeshine, angel, baby, beautiful, bereavement,
Form: Classicism

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