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I Am Bare Feet

June 21, 2010
By SarahJumps SILVER, Richmond, Virginia
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SarahJumps SILVER, Richmond, Virginia
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Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. <br /> -Eleanor Roosevelt<br /> <br /> I think, at a child&#039;s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity. -E.R

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I am rough souls
smacking against the black pavement
I am dirty heels
leaving muddy little foot prints where ever I go
I am little toes
wiggling under cold rushing water
I am the thumpidy thump thump
you hear running down the street on hot summer days
I am the queen of splinters
the dutches of tree climbing
the princess of bumps and bruises
I am blisters on my bones
the result of another day full of exploration and adventure
I am tough skin
treading fearlessly across seas of gravel
I am the conquerer of dusty dashboards
the roamer of abandoned dirt roads
I am the the defier of gravity
the leaper of faith
I am the carrier of all treaders
I am the soul connection to the earth
the matcher of its beat
I am bare feet

© Loni Black, Hamilton, TX

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I feel like this explains me well :)
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SarahJumps SILVER said...
on Aug. 18 2010 at 9:09 am
SarahJumps SILVER, Richmond, Virginia
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Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. <br /> -Eleanor Roosevelt<br /> <br /> I think, at a child&#039;s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity. -E.R

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thank you! :D
ShadowOfaGirl GOLD said...
on Aug. 18 2010 at 8:19 am
ShadowOfaGirl GOLD, St.paris, Ohio
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I would rather you hate me for all that I am then love me for something I&#039;m not.

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This is an amazing poem! The way you worded it made me remember how it feels to run bare foot down the road. I really like it! this should be printed in the magazine in my opinion!
SarahJumps SILVER said...
on Aug. 17 2010 at 3:29 pm
SarahJumps SILVER, Richmond, Virginia
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thank you! <3 
Only,I PLATINUM said...
on Aug. 16 2010 at 11:15 pm
Only,I PLATINUM, Taylorville, Illinois
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This is quite amazing. I really like it.

(: