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ageing, Alexandra Carr-Malcolm, comfort, feet, lost childhood, poetry, slippers, toes, youth
Wearing slippers,
is an old bird thing…
For when once young,
naked feet would spring,
through dew grass sweet,
and street baked heat.
As the years soon decline,
bare feet, though sublime,
our child’s heart now subdued,
we reach for comfort of our shoes.
No more feet, wet and wild,
as I did when a child.
Now I groan out of bed,
feeling old and half dead,
toasty toes hit cold floor,
then I crave for the allure,
of my slippers cosy warm,
safe from harm,
of cold chills,
and spikey ills,
that can harm footsies,
or stubbed tootsies.
Yes – I can attest,
that my slippers,
are the best!
© A Tribute to my Slippers 29.09.2012
By Alexandra Carr-Malcolm
Everybody needs a pair of these. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Worldly Winds 
What a fun and creative way to explore the topic of aging! 🙂 (Now where did I put my slippers?…)
Thank you! It seems only a few years since my friend and I were picking out mini skirts and boob tubes – not we’re found hovering in knitwear and comfy shoes shops!
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🙂 I’m guessing that you wouldn’t trade what you have learned in the intervening time for a mini skirt! 🙂
haha – you are right! 🙂
Cheerful poem. I need some nice warm and foxy slippers too. :))
Oooo I like the mini ugg boot type – they keep your ankles warm!!
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This is so amazingly cute! A tribute to slippers – arent you too adorable like your slippers?? =)
-Naima.
I think one has to be of a certain age when you realise that you have an unhealthy attachment to your slippers! (They never let you down!!)
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Bravo! They never do! [lol]
-Naima.
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LOVE your slippers…and the poem’s pretty good, too! 😉 xoxoM
Hehe – unfortunately they are not my slippers – though they look very comfy!!
Thank you 😀
I loved the first line … ‘Wearing slippers is an old bird thing’ … hooked me!
Thank you very much indeed! I never started wearing slippers until I was about 45 – to me that is the stage of the old bird syndrome!! 🙂