It Was A Thing

imaginarygarden   Bits Of Inspiration ~ Shoes  Imagined By Susie Clevenger
“Today’s challenge is to write about shoes. It could be a favorite pair, hated pair, your father’s shoes, mother’s shoes. Just go wherever your shoes take you.”

I guess I just find it odd
they say it’s becoming mod
as it was in days gone by.

On the TV console they sat
with signs of daily combat
and I have to wonder why.

Baby shoes all the rage
in bronze to signify the age
of babyhood flown by.

Now, maybe I could see
a newborn’s tiny bootie
bronzed and hung high

on a Christmas tree.
Yet, still I’d find it odd,
maudlin, I think, qualifies