My answer to a colleague's challenge for this old dog (that's me) to blog. I hope I've proven that 'every old dog could do a good blog'.
26 July 2010
Shoe Without A Foot
A lone stiletto
Not exactly old
On an electrical box top
Near an old-style coffeeshop
Was it abandoned?
A waste that can't be condoned
Did the other heel break?
Next time buy a better make!
Or was she overdressed?
Hence unduly stressed
At being brought here
By a stingy date I fear
Then flung her stiletto
At the el-cheapo
And hastily departed
Quite broken-hearted
Or accidently soaked earlier
In the recent floodwater
Caused by the heavy rain
When one foot went into a drain
Now she's only air-drying it
When I paid an untimely visit
She never thought it so often
That a poem can be written
Maybe I'm only imagining
Like someone has been saying
Perhaps she was Cinderella
Who fitted nicely in a glass slipper
So had no use for the extra shoe
As she had found her beau
They probably left in laughter
And lived happily ever after
(Related post by Rick Burnett Baker here.)
footwear or foot fetish? first, showed us your bare feet. now, a solitary shoe.
ReplyDeleteWah Victor. Soon we'll have a book of poems by you.
ReplyDeleteI like the Cinderella connection. Nice touch!
Victor already planned his post-retirement career!
ReplyDeleteA lone stiletto at an old-style coffeeshop...an euphoria of a poem inspired on your blog, Vic.
ReplyDeleteTimeless and romantic. Cheers!
Icemoon, what post-retirement? Sell old one-sided shoes which I pick up on the streets?
ReplyDeleteno no, sell your book of poems as suggested by Andy. Even Chun See is publishing already!
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