With apologies to Carl Sandburg*
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Love wears no shoes.
It uncoils barefoot
in the sand
and wiggles
like a slinky
between bare souls
playing in the waves
as it arcs
from skin to skin
across the shore.
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(c) 1995, 2018 Betty Hayes Albright
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*Carl Sandburg wrote a poem with this same title, which has the following line:
“There is a pair of shoes love wears and the coming is a mystery.”
(I beg to disagree. 🙂 )
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(a re-post, revised)
Seasonings 
Very well done. My love is barefoot as well… less restricting.
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Thank you very much, Joseph. 🙂
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Very welcome.
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Just delightful! Had to chuckle as I read it.
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So glad it made you chuckle! Thank you, Charlie. 😄
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Reblogged this on By the Mighty Mumford and commented:
NEED APOLOGIZE TO NO ONE (BUT I KNOW WHY YOU DID IT!).
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Thank you very much for the reblog, Jonathan!
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I try to live God’s love.—and glad for His Mercies!
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Such a fun thought about love wiggling its way between two people until they’re connected. You of course put it so much better.
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So glad you enjoyed it, Sharon. 🙂
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And I think Carl Sandburg would like it very much.
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Thank you for that. It’d be nice to think so. 🙂
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I am with you Betty!
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Thank you, Willow! 😄
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💜🌹
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❤ this! every bit of it!
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Sarah, I’m so glad. Thank you! 🙂
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I’m with you, too, Betty. Barefoot in the sand has more of a soothing feel to it. And “playing in the waves as it arcs from skin to skin” just lovely. Hugs ❤
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Thank you, Lauren. Hugs back! 💕
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This is wonderful!
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Thank you, Nicodemus! 🙂
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Finding the root of true happiness. Lovely.
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Thank you, Audrey – it’s always so nice to hear from you. 💕
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Thanks for the smile Betty 💕
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Glad it made you smile Val. 😄💕
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Ethel says, isn’t that a wonderful poem? I say it is absolutely wonderful.
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Thank you, Thomas and Ethel. I appreciate your lovely comments very much!
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Lovely image, that slinky. At once man-made but operating under natural laws, an exquisitely simple toy of the people. And the shape of a bridge or a rainbow. There are so many aspects to this image. The poet’s art at its best.
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Thank you! Slinkies have fascinated me ever since my highschool physics teacher used them to demonstrate waves. Wrote this 20+ years ago and don’t remember my exact thinking, except that love is a sort of wave. I appreciate your kind words! 🙂
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my feet like shoes
and no shoes, too 🙂
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Mine too. 😄
Waiting for summer.
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ah, bliss of barefootedness…..as I sit here finally seeing the sun and warmth on my skin, feet and toes wiggling in bliss for sure ❤
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Oh, wiggle your toes in the sun for me too. 😄 It’s only in the 40’s here and raining. Counting the days until spring!
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The imagery here is astounding
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Thank you, I’m honored. “Astounding” is the word I’d use to describe your imagery. 🙂
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I am rarely astounded yet often you provoke such response when I read you – that is a wonderful thing my friend
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It’s mutual then, dear Candice. 💞
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“I beg to disagree.”
And so you should and know I’m on your side, Betty. 🙂
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Good to know, Ben. 😊
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❤
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❤️
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