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Here is not the subject: it's the ordinary locative moved to the front for emphasis. The subject is your shoes.

Here is/are X is fine, but it doesn't mean quite the same thing as Your shoes are here—it's used primarily when you hand X to the hearer:

Here are your shoes; I found them under the table.
Here's your book; thanks for lending it to me!

And we wouldn't ordinarily say Here these are (unless we had to distinguish these from some other X, "those X"); we use the 'personal' pronoun they, just as in Here it is:

Here they are; I found them under the table.

Here is/are X is fine, but it doesn't mean quite the same thing as Your shoes are here—it's used primarily when you hand X to the hearer:

Here are your shoes; I found them under the table.
Here's your book; thanks for lending it to me!

And we wouldn't ordinarily say Here these are (unless we had to distinguish these from some other X, "those X"); we use the 'personal' pronoun they, just as in Here it is:

Here they are; I found them under the table.

Here is not the subject: it's the ordinary locative moved to the front for emphasis. The subject is your shoes.

Here is/are X is fine, but it doesn't mean quite the same thing as Your shoes are here—it's used primarily when you hand X to the hearer:

Here are your shoes; I found them under the table.
Here's your book; thanks for lending it to me!

And we wouldn't ordinarily say Here these are (unless we had to distinguish these from some other X, "those X"); we use the 'personal' pronoun they, just as in Here it is:

Here they are; I found them under the table.

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Here is/are X is fine, but it doesn't mean quite the same thing as Your shoes are here—it's used primarily when you hand X to the hearer:

Here are your shoes; I found them under the table.
Here's your book; thanks for lending it to me!

And we wouldn't ordinarily say Here these are (unless we had to distinguish these from some other X, "those X"); we use the 'personal' pronoun they, just as in Here it is:

Here they are; I found them under the table.