Best Sandbox Poems

It seems like it was yesterday
   in backyard sandbox she had played;
      granddaughter loved to have her way
         with sand, her pail, scoop, shovel, spade.

She'd mold and build, with special...

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Before her Auntie died she built her a big sandbox,
I remember her sitting there with long curly brown locks.
The sun in her face with an innocent smile so bright,
she’d stay out there playing morning, noon and night.

She had little tractors and buckets with tiny figurines,
she’d...

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If I put you in a sandbox you couldn't dig deep enough to find cat ****....

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Into the sandbox
Come the flappers and the seekers
Like puppets on strings
Dancing to their own childish whims
The profiler watches
As they think they sing
The poison in their stories a piercing ring
Like chess moves, piece by piece
Slowly
From a blank slate
We see the wrong turns inflicted at childhood
Them thinking...

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Sandbox

Come join me in my sandbox,
Where the task of executing begins,
A vast space, a separate place,
To test without affecting the end!

While creative juices flow freely,
From the minds of the specialist,
The applications rest comfortably,
In My sandbox environment! 

Written: 10/11/16

Submitted for: Poetry Contest - Screwed XV
Sponsored by:...

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When I was a little tot playing in the sandbox meant a lot.

I could play all day, I played and played, until the sun went 

his way.  What fun I had, making faces happy and sad.  But 

as the day began to end,...

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A sojourn took me to a beautiful sandy shore
Dreams abounding that I could be
Like any other child I had read about
To pile up all the sand in my view
And build my multitude of dreams 
That I believed would turn into reality 
With every passing day

In...

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Stepping outside the sandbox,
Is what we all need.
I do it to escape the madness,
And from going crazy.
I need silence.
I need to feel alive again.
I need to feel strong, positive and secure.
I just need to be alone,
So I can think...
Someone has destroyed my life.
They have taken...

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She carried it with her, wherever she went.
It never left her sight. She grew with it,
from the time she lived with her parents
as a child, in their beloved tropical island.
Her father gave it to her, as a Christmas gift
for her eighth birthday. He wanted her...

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hand to hair twirling
into the calmest air
finding you stealing
looks at me
with my knees
deep into the sandbox

songs song deeply
out of key while
you yawn and smile
pleasingly at our photograph
of kissing upon a dream

rainbows wrapped around
a candycane
with the deepest hues
that sorrow could paint
into this heart...

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When I was a child 
We had little in means
So all my investments
Were in fantasy dreams.

A favorite of mine
Was told by my pap
Of a Sandman who came
Whenever you'd nap.

He came with a bag
And a mission, this guy
To put one piece of sand
In each sleeping eye.

So...

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Sandbox is rusty
The swing is covered with mold
They are so lonely

Without their bluebird
Playing and squealing on hold
Disappeared no word

Little chair’s broken
Vines withered away and brown
Hope you’ll be back ‘round

Drum beats no longer
Tambourine’s quieter than quiet
Frozen berries thawed

Mimi’s arms aching
For her Wrenna girl to hold
just don’t...

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Larry's in the sand box
Trying to build a castle
Johnny comes along
And gives Larry a hassle

Johnny says the castle is too weak
You need to make it more stable
Larry says I'm not a builder
So I'm just not able

Susie comes to check the castle
Sees them fighting with no...

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Grain upon grain, all have
a name ,for each is a spec of me.
From first breath and even before 
These life chips compound more and more
Like sand in a sandbox ,my life for all to see.

I am not alone for all have a sandbox of their...

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In life,
together we play in a sandbox,
making sand castles in wonderland.

Poetic times with flowing lines
you’re a woman who understands.

I'm by your side at sunrise
we're on the beach at sunset.
			
An evening breezes 
and tranquil seas.
That's how you and I met.

Together we move in the midnight
wind chimes...

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