Best Recess Poems

as the school bell rings
children are shrieking with glee

    recess is over.

          a sudden rain of bombs leaves
          the playground deathly silent...

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Kindergarten Recess

A tiny elephant stampede
all for the golden ring of an empty swing.

©Kathryn McLoughlin Collins...

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by Rachel Dunkerque AKA Carolyn V. Crawford
(lyric and melody)

You yearn to hear me whisper, your name against your chest
Taste my lips in the kiss of a pouring rain
Under skies on fire with God's fine play
You want your arms to close me in
Feel the thunder clap...

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Really
Ecstatic
Children
Excitedly
Shout
"Sweetness!!!"...

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Time Out! It feels so good
To sit in the sun,
And breathe in the air.

Birds sing! Warm air is balmy...
I smell the flowers,
And I don’t have a care....

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Running around getting my 
Exercise, in the 
Coolness of 
Each day
Sunup to 
Sunset I play....

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Recess Bell

Where'd it go
That twice a day relief
Leaving behind blackboard's chalk-lines
To immerse in the blacktop chalk-lines

That place where hop scotch
Poison line
River ball
Target ball
Quickly made chalk nubs
Made innocent everyone's fun
Made sad classroom returns

That ringing in our ears
Announcing freedom time
Now but a morning and afternoon
Workplace coffee break
Signaled...

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Recess
By Franklin Price
5/5/2016

Recess, recess I cannot wait
Here at my desk alone
A little boredom is my fate
Like a dog without a bone

Trying not to run my mouth
Brings on the teacher's rants
So anxious for the bell to ring
I'm about to wet my pants

There it is, it loudly...

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Outside at recess
How I love to play
On the merry-go-round
What a joyous day

Then some older boys
Come and start to  push
Spinning it around
Getting it to go faster

I become afraid
Having trouble holding
On, afraid to jump, afraid to stay
Then more older boys

Add speed to the fun
Terrified with head...

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The school bell rings, we all get up from our seats,
Like ladies and gentlemen, and walk out into the hall.
There's no running allowed in the halls
Or the teacher will send us straight to the principal's office.

I couldn't wait to get out on the playground for...

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Recess 1


Third grade
Ms. Greene
Handed me tightly wrapped Chinese candy 
And Starburst occasionally

A little girl
Fresh out of Haiti
Bullied
Teased, punched and kicked
Scared and scarred
Yet well mannered 

Blue she wore “going on a date?
Ms. Greene giggles and smiled

In my mind I wasn’t pretty  

 Still,
To her ,...

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Lined with intention,
filled with giving in,
pretend we never meant
for it
to go further than it did.
Well it did,
they absolutely shook their heads.
It shook so fast it broke in half,
we act like little kids.
This playground grew up quick,
we left our innocence behind.
A thousand needles in the sandbox;
swinging...

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mysterious as Lemuel
     unlike hundreds of
     other rowdy seniors
     constituting the nineteen
     seventy seven graduating class
     of Methacton High School,
this now mooch older non "Warrior"
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the children all cheer

there will be no indoor recess

hooray rain they yell

glad to be inside

watching their inane U-tube

indoor children now...

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Recess 2

“September eleventh was a very bad day
I dropped on my knees and began to pray
And if you hear what I say
That was a very bad day, hey
That was a very bad day”
We sang in protest walking straight down the block of our school
The world...

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