Where are your shoes?

Jonathan Slaton 1954 (United States)

March 22 


Where did your shoes go?  Where could they be?
Are they under the bed or up in a tree?
How could your shoes have wandered so far?
To the back of the couch or inside the car?
Sometimes they scatter like kittens, I know,
One next to the sink and one under the snow.
Oh!  Look here, I found them, they’re inside this box
Now wait just a minute, so where are your socks?

About this poem

Written one evening after taking care of my twin granddaughters (age 18 months) The shoe locations are only slightly exaggerated.

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Written on October 12, 2021

Submitted by jchslaton on March 20, 2022

Modified on May 01, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AABBCCDD
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 368
Words 80
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 8

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