Your Shoes Will Make You Happy Today
27February 10, 2016 by petrujviljoen
Copyright Kanzensakura
Dverse Poets are in top form today with a prompt and photo supplied by Kanzen Sakura. We’re to choose a fortune and write to it.
Fortunately …
last winter’s ashes for
this summer’s gardening
scooped and dug into soil retaining water
covered head to foot
a hose, a shower a bath
it took
in answer to
officialdom’s call – stepping
out right
in time
in tune
societally
dressed to the nines
well-heeled, bagged, mascara’d,
nails, lips highly sheened
- Are you ms C…?
- Yaas, indeed!
- … this way please.
Back at home [at l(e)ast] heel snagged
took a tumble, made tea,
redressed
… plastic gardening shoes are so much more comfortable
… don’t you think?
Copyright Petru J Viljoen
petrujviljoen 
Your play with words is enlightening and catchy. Short, precise and interesting. Great poem. I could imagine myself in the garden after a rainy afternoon. We’ve had an odd rainy season here in South Africa, we appreciate the rain, whenever it decides to fall.
Indeed appreciating the rain! 🙂
Oh yes, much more comfortable! I read your reply to Bjorn regarding the waterfalls and wonderful nature minutes from your front door…I would love that…how nice it’s so close. It’s so rejuvenating to be out in the middle of it all.
It is SUCH a privilege. I saw the most stunning sunset last night, flew off to be in time for the last throes of the drama and left my camera at home! Maybe just as well, one gets to absorb with nothing between one in it. I have to skirt a patch of trees to get a 360 degree view. Thanks for reading and commenting. Nobody mentioned the Cinderella context even if they did notice it. 🙂
Oh, was that the “Ms. C” reference and the ashes? No, didn’t put that together with Cinderella but I like that, cool!
yeah, comfort first…in spite of my short height i’m a flip flop person…
Some shoes are professional, some are fashionable, but only great shoes can make you happy.
🙂
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But for the scorpions, spiders and occasionally snakes, I’d go barefoot too!
SMiLes.. White barren sand here..:)
Just reread your poem. Found insights I missed the first time round. Thank you.
i own no poem..
Every read..
New words
My friend..:)
Indeed!! I don’t own one pair of heels. 🙂
Me neither, it’s been decades. Wrote a fiction or from a memory if you like.
as a man I’m fortunate enough to just have comfortable shoes… but yet I might still prefer to stroll in the garden in clogs… Our garden is woodland, so it’s more trees than flowers actually…
I can go straight from the garden, step over the track in front of my house and be in the midst of nature, a waterfall to the left, 5 min walk, another to the right a 20 min walk, another off the tourist trail half an hour’s walk and a major climb over rocks and through trees. Don’t have to get dressed for it, thankfully. 🙂 The high heels in the poem is a fiction, it’s been decades since I last had any.
Definitely. Anything but heels. Nicely expressed.
Oh yes, truly comfortable 😀 such a breath of fresh air your poem.
Lots of love,
Sanaa
Thanks!
Flip-flops, for me, please! 🙂
Love this, especially:
“took a tumble, made tea”
Yeah, raining here too in the Pacific Northwest. Your poem is sweet, intriguing, laden with both simplicity & implicitly–with a lot implied between the lines (honoring the other prompt “you are a lover of words”). I enjoyed the read & the treatise on comfortable shoes; damn the 80’s when men’s platform shoes came into fashion.
I remember those! Blegh! Thanks for the insightful comment.
Definitely more comfortable!! Agreed.
All agreed so far!
Of yes, very comfortable, all the time ~ I can’t wait to check out the garden after this snow season is over ~
It’s been raining here thank goodness, much needed in our high summer and drought, so different to your part of the world. Gardening is the best!