Writing Shoes

When I put on my writing shoes

I can write poems that run fast,

straight into your hearts, poems

that have a spring in their steps 

to make you feel jubilant and

just a little bit childlike; joyous

and energetic poems that keep on

skipping about without getting tired;

poems that leap tall troubles in a –

you know – single bound, so you

feel good, good, good! And when I 

put on my other writing shoes, they

make the poems tiptoe softly, not

to disturb but to enter your dreams,

where they will dance for you, or

with you; or poems that walk right up

beside you and wait until you see them

and see they are just what you need, 

and then, if you listen, they’ll speak.


Written for Writing Shoes, day 27 of April Poetry Month at 'imaginary garden with real toads'.