Welcome to the dVerse Poets bar from your host for today, Kim of Writing in North Norfolk.

It’s the end of August and next week children across the British Isles will be returning to school, spruced up in pristine uniforms and shiny new shoes, which prompted me to search for poetry about footwear by well-known poets. I could only find a few, including this wonderful shape poem by Shel Silverstein:

The poems I have found take shoes and transform them into something else, exploring a variety of fotwear in different ways.

‘Red Slippers’ by Amy Lowell is a wonderful example of imagist poetry that focuses on the shoe as an object of desire, making the red slippers other-worldly:  https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/red-slippers

In ‘My Shoes’ by Charles Simic, the shoe is secret face of your inner life. Worn  everyday, shoes become part of you; they go with you, take you places, know your…