Best Hopscotch Poems

I saw God, so ... now what?

I wait,
standing in line 
at the grand Hopscotch Game

holding the stone in my hand 


Candide Diderot. ‘24 ...

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Hopscotch
Playing hopscotch is my favorite game
To play outside with my friends
We jump, we hop, we toss our rock 
Until 
     one of us wins!...

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EXCERPT (Approximately 30% of Poem)
                                  
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I stare at the playground
Its been a long time since Ive been here
The hopscotch marks are fading..
..Once upon a time they were clear
but those memories are shading.
Alone in the cold,
 thinking:
please bring back the old days.
For what is good today
was shunned upon yesterday 
and night...

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knobby-knee’d, toes that stop 
bend and pick up 
penny, marble, rock 
outside chalk 
on concrete, begging, for me to turn around 
for one more try...

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Frances

Twas the night before Thanksgiving
An’ all through the tenement
Mama was sleeping
When Big Dady came in again
And there in the night sweet Frances lost her innocence

Hopscotch in Harlem Summer 1944

"If I don’t win this time
I aint never going to play no more.”

Mr Fortune teller
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Taking a short cut down an alley, I saw a gleam of sunshine,
It had dried the pavements so children could chalk hopscotch,
Small children to much older children all joined in together,
Throwing their stones into the right boxes so they could play.

How sweet it was to...

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Roman 
empire reigns,
military
exercise game,
children 
imitate soldiers,
mark
chalk grids ~
cast
tiny boulders
ancient
British pastime...

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Ghostly giblets granting grinning gibbons grapefruit. But grapes were busy running down the road. Away they shouted away away. And at great speed they went down the roads. Escaping the giblets who cried out in anger at the escapees. The gibbons would not be grinning...

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There are children, O so sweet,
Playing hopscotch in the street,
Figures of worth and substance,
Priceless gems of innocence.

Playing is their daytime work,
Chores they must not ever shirk,
Reads to build literacy,
Studies that steer legacy.

Should be sheltered from fear,
That causes bad nightmares so drear,
Little minds struggling hard to...

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"HOPSCOTCH WITH SOME SCOTCH"


there are times 
when I wonder about 
everything that has 
happened, everything that has 
put me inside 
my current location in 
life. when they 
gave me air only 
to drown me, 
when the claws ripped 
my life apart, 
when the dirt was...

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hopscotch
taking turns
despite rain sprinkles



posted on June 12, 2018...

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I paid the price for my mistakes, you don't know how much it cost
I may have scars, wounds, bruises and bloody clothes 
But i made it through the Muddy roads 
And I won because just Like in Hopscotch l was thinking outside of the box

I've...

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As young kids,
we loved playing hopscotch.
Taking turns we would put big boxes on the sidewalk, 
then jump from box to box for hours.
One day we took a can of spray paint,
now we have a Backyard Hopscotch.
The grass boxes look great in red,
it now matches dad's...

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I once tried hopscotch in reverse,
Backwards it went from bad to worse.
My hop was scotched,
My stone was botched,
I fell head over heels adverse!...

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