I've seen shoes draped around like this. What is up with this ritual? The
semester's over hoorah?
Terrie
on 16/12/01 5:21 pm, Bob Cooper at [log in to unmask] wrote:
> AT THE TREE OF SHOES
> *In Heaton Park, Newcastle* (this line is in smaller, slanty, print!)
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> Yet more pairs of DMs, Nikes, Reeboks, hung in the branches,
> hoyed there by drunken students - who, too broke for taxis,
> too early for Sunday buses, had tied them together, swung them,
> then cheered as they stuck, before stumbling further home, carolling,
> dancing the beginning of Christmas in their stockinged feet -
> where they shine, sway like the shoes slipped off by angels
> quietly visiting a stable, not disturbing who's asleep.
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> Bob Cooper
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> who'd welcome any (all!) comments...
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Life doesn't seem to have changed much since I was a Newcastle student a
long time ago. I like six beat poems, and this one works a treat. I know it
goes to 7 or 8 in some lines, but the sound's right. Knows when to stop too.
Like it.
Sevans
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