FOUR FEATHERS PRESS ONLINE EDITION: SCHOOL SHOES Send up to three poems on the subject of or at least mentioning the words school and/or shoe, totaling up to 150 lines in length, in the body of an email message or attached in a Word file to donkingfishercampbell@gmail.com by 11:59 PM PST on August 16th. No PDF's please. Color artwork is also desired. Please send in JPG form. No late submissions accepted. Poets and artists published in Four Feathers Press Online Edition: School Shoes will be published online and invited to read at the Saturday Afternoon Poetry Zoom meeting on Saturday, August 17th between 3 and 5 pm PST.

Thursday, August 15, 2024

Petrouchka Alexieva

The Secrets of the School Shoes

 

There is a saying:

“The closest place is the farthest

when you run to school and

the longest way is, when you come back”

…and I am the real prove of that.

 

Our home was 5 minutes away

from school by walk. But I often was late.

It seemed that I had the wrong shoes

and short legs, when running for class.

 

Then on the end of the day,

the entire flock of kids had to go home,

bringing each other to the garden gates

and…always the time stopped to exist.

Our shoes did not matter the snow, the rain.

 

The same magic happened to my boys,

while the school was just a street away.

They blamed the same – the shoes,

that run in a wrong time and

walk back in a wrong direction

in the entire neighborhood.

 

Every pair of school shoes carries

the innocent secrets

of a happy and careless childhood.


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