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ecrivan
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since 2001-12-10

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my own state

0 posted 2003-11-29 01:06 AM

Equipped with toes on my feet
and days to walk more
I'll witness victory and defeat
sail to distant shores.

They comforted me when I sojourned in a crib
filled my mouth with digits when I needed a bib,
instructed to count on toes and fingers
the joy of tallied toes was not to linger.

With then I could balance my weight on a favorite stool,
at a tender age, pantry biscuits would make me drool;
I'd still have my quota of five on each leg
exposed in summers, or shielded in shoes instead.

Now at a distance of so many years
a knock on one toe caused me some fear
a careless hit while seated in my lion legged tub
made me appreciate again those digits I'd scrub.

[This message has been edited by ecrivan (11-29-2003 01:30 AM).]

SharaRose
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since 2003-07-19

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Somewhere out there~

1 posted 2003-11-29 02:25 AM

The words stubbing my toe kept coming to mind...Ouch...hehe...I would never have thought to write about this subject, but I did hear one time without your big toe you can't stand. I don't know why I told that? Shrugs shoulderz?

Love,
Terri~

[This message has been edited by SharaRose (11-29-2003 02:26 AM).]

passing shadows
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since 1999-08-26

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displaced

2 posted 2003-11-29 04:22 AM

thinking about toes in a scientific way...well, I guess we really do need them afterall

Ericc
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since 2003-01-31

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3 posted 2003-11-29 10:53 AM

Hahahaha...great write!

Eric

PsychoticBunni
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since 2003-10-03

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Mythical Atlantis

4 posted 2003-11-29 01:29 PM

toes are important. for u, friend, they hold many memories. the more toes the better!!! hmm... maybe I'll have kids with SEVEN toes!

Meg

Meg- And the Texan pushed the Mexican out of the plane and screamed, "Long live the ALAMO!!!!!!!!!"

Skyfire

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since 2000-12-27

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Riding

5 posted 2003-11-29 08:35 PM

Toes are great... there's just something about them hehe (or maybe I'm just strange)

Life isn't really all that bad... just don't take it too seriously
"Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. "
--G. K.Chesterto

ecrivan
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since 2001-12-10

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my own state

6 posted 2003-11-29 09:12 PM

Finding out that there's so much to write about the stuff we take for granted..thanks all

serenity blaze
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7 posted 2003-11-29 10:25 PM

shaking my head and smiling...

you just reminded me of a lovely memory.

I was sitting with my Dad once, and I had casually propped my feet, ankles crossed on his knee. We sat there quietly, both of us staring at my feet. Whereupon he broke the silence, making an obvious reference to my monkey type toes (I have this huge gap between my big toe and my first "little toe" which made me quite dextrous at climbing trees in my day)and he said, in his lovely Texan drawl:

"Yanno? You could fit a whole 'nuther toe a'tween them two."

I smiled with pride until he continued:

"Tain't natural."

You are so right Martin. It's the little things that make poetry.

ecrivan
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since 2001-12-10

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my own state

8 posted 2003-11-30 02:09 AM

well then you have a set of special toes...the better to climb with, I mean

suthern

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Louisiana

9 posted 2003-12-01 09:50 AM

I had to read this if only because the title reminded me of PIP's Toe... and I thoroughly enjoyed! *S*

ecrivan
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my own state

10 posted 2003-12-01 09:27 PM

reminders are good to have then

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