Daily Poetry Challenge: Shoe Pantoum

G.L. Morrison
These toe-catchers
meant only to protect and cover
instead inspire foot fetishists and lechers
and make us avid if faithless lovers.

Meant only to protect and cover,
one pair should be all anyone needs.
Tho it makes us avid if faithless lovers
we must satisfy our greed.

One pair should be all anyone needs
we should remember our budget and forget --but oh
we must satisfy our greed
for the Mary Jane next door. Next a slutty stiletto.

we should remember the budget and forget --but oh
these toe catchers -
the Mary Jane next door, that silly slut stiletto -
instead inspire foot fetishists and lechers.

Published by G.L. Morrison

With sundry awards, magazines & anthologies to her credit, Morrison's taught writers @conferences in Portland, Seattle, SF, Boston, Chicago, NYC and Washington DC at the Library of Congress.  View profile

  • Quatrain, originating in Iran, may be the oldest form of poetry.
  • Pantoum is a Malaysian form of Quatrain.
  • The Pantoum is a circle with lines 2 and 4 of the prior stanza becoming lines 1 and 3 of the next.
There many forms of Quatrain: Introverted Quatrain, Short Meter, Ruba'i (the plural is rubiayat), Heroic Stanza, Pantoum and Kyrielle. A quatrain -poem or stanza- is four lines in which the second and fourth line must rhyme.

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  • Greenhill4/24/2009

    Hehehe, very cute!

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