1/16/2026 for 2026-01-15 Write A Beautiful Rubaiyat Poem Poetry Contest sponsored by Constance La France
Can you hear the children shout and play? Does it remind you of yesterday? Take a moment and close your tired eyes. Remember an ancient sunny day. Now, hear those happy squeals and cries harmonize in a sweet reprise of a childhood that was so much fun on the schoolyard with the girls and guys. Red rover and hopscotch 'neith the sun, friendships and crushes just begun, youth's excitement, which we once knew, and the joy to race and skip and run. Now, open your eyes to today's view. We grew up and we grew old, we two. To those days, although we can't return, I'm glad I can relive them with you.
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