Ghazal: I Have Hobbit Feet!

Ghazal: I Have Hobbit Feet!

A Poem by Carl Teegerstrom
"

This draft is a second draft of a modification of an earlier poem: "I Have Hobbit Feet!"

"

I love walking through the park, off the sidewalks with bare feet.

I don’t mind the pebbles or acorns because I have hobbit feet!

 

I grew tall, lanky, with a scruffy beard curling around my cheek.

I wear a size thirteen … and a half … so they’re as big as hobbit feet.

 

While I lean on the flaking bark scales of my favorite tree,

I see them dangling from my legs, gnarled and sinewy as hobbit feet.

 

Long hairs curl across the top like fur, my middle toe’s bulbous callous

my pinky toe hides under its neighbor, they’re as ugly as hobbit feet.

 

My sole is rough like the old, dry leather of worn out boot

they’re brown with dirt because I use them like hobbit feet.

 

My Dad ran up the bill with different shoes because each

pair either tore up or was torn up by my blistered feet.

 

I was always meant to walk barefoot on the grass and writhing roots

so my Dad joked: “Carl , you must have hobbit feet!”

 

© 2016 Carl Teegerstrom


Author's Note

Carl Teegerstrom
Anything helps!

My Review

Would you like to review this Poem?
Login | Register




Share This
Email
Facebook
Twitter
Request Read Request
Add to Library My Library
Subscribe Subscribe


Stats

603 Views
Added on December 4, 2016
Last Updated on December 4, 2016
Tags: Hobbit, Nature, Park, Feet, Ghazal, Poem

Author

Carl Teegerstrom
Carl Teegerstrom

Houston, TX



About
I am a creative person looking to for a place to flex his creative muscles in writing. I love literature, poetry, movies, short stories, philosophy, art, essays and more. I hope you will like what I h.. more..

Writing