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Woman Who Wanted A Shoe

This poem is dedicated to  +Adrianna Joleigh   Woman Who Wanted A Shoe There was a young woman who wanted a shoe. She started with one, and then she bought two. With each one she bought, she had to make room. She cleaned out some space and swept with her broom. The footwear collection grew so immense, she added an annex surrounded by fence. She stacked her moccasins, mukluks and mules, "Out of my way, I'm shoe hunting, fools!" She adored sling-backs, slippers and sneakers. She loved a good pair that'd stun anyone's peepers. She loved to climb hills in sling-backs and heels. She'd rather be found in footwear than riding on wheels. She drew the line at work boots and waders, those for labor or searching for 'gators. The shoe fetish's growth was exponential. The footwear collection reached full potential. She proudly displays them for mankind to view. She’ll let you adore them if you donate a shoe.

Some Are Drawn

Some Are Drawn Some are drawn to dark and pain, enduring, suffering, endless strain. Hiding, blocking, shunning light, no escape from loathsome plight. Some are drawn to joy and light, smiling, basking, sun’s delight. Forgetting, healing, cathartic gain, released from power’s inner pain. Some are drawn to doom and gloom, alone with nightmares, lonely room. Cringing, crying in the dark, forgetting life’s loving spark. Some are drawn to hope and sun, desiring love for everyone. Reaching, expecting life’s everyday, anticipating, positive, smiling way. Some will choose to turn aside, from selfish, lonesome, blinding pride. Some will choose the love of life, trade pain for peace, lose inner strife. © 2013 ajwrites57 A Long Pain photo  By dpawatts Joy photo  By hotblack If you enjoyed this poem, visit  Hubpages.

Five More of My Top Ten Greatest Novels

Image  By Ryan Vaarsi A few months back I joined a community on Google+ called "The 100 Greatest Novels of All Time". The moderator,   +Brandon Toropov    suggested that we post our Top Ten Greatest Novels of All Time list. The novels I chose altered my views about life or influenced my worldview in some way when I first read them. My Top Ten Greatest Novels  Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird  Fyodor Dostoevsky - Crime and Punishment  Charles Dickens - Great Expectations  Nathaniel Hawthorne - The Scarlet Letter  Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre  John Steinbeck - The Grapes of Wrath  Ernest Hemingway - The Sun Also Rises  Frank Herbert - Dune  J. R. R Tolkien - The Lord of the Rings  Herman Melville - Moby Dick I covered why I chose the following novels for my Top Ten Novels in an earlier post here : To Kill a Mockingbird, Crime and Punishment, Great Expectations, The Scarlet Letter, and Jane Eyre. Here I present the reasons why I chose these f

Happy Love

Happy Love ! This post is about two poems that I penned about  Happy Love ! It's also about how I've organized my writing in general. When I started blogging a few months ago and started reviewing my writings, rewriting, and editing them, the best way I could think of to keep track of them for posting was to separate them into different topics. I have folders for all the writings I'm working on: Ready To Go , Working and To Edit , and sub-folders for poems  stories  and articles. I've gone through the Love Poems I've written over the years and have categorized them. The main folder is Love , of course. The next sub-categories I created are In Love and Love Struggle . In the In Love folder I have Strong Love , Happy Love and Ethereal Love . In the Love Struggle folder I have Longing Love and End of Love . There may be other categories for Love but for now, these are the ones that I have utilized at the  moment . It also helps me to focus on the emotions