Blindfold
...BLINDFOLD
I hear childrens voices
filled with laughter and noise,
hopscotched in endless streets,
mingling in sometime dreams.
I hear childrens laughter,
pitching above the hum drum,
of spec...
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Categories:
hopscotched, arabic,
Form: Free verse
Irrational exuberance at respite from reading
...Irrational exuberance at respite from reading...
(on a rainy May thirteenth
two thousand and twenty five)
as a balm against ennui
becoming engrossed, immersed,
and lost in space of orrery
reg...
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Categories:
hopscotched, adventure, america, analogy, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Argh No More Medicare
...ARGH! NO MORE MEDICARE!
A worst nightmare loomed large
notification courtesy Montgomery County
Assistance Office caseworker
implied medical coverage axed
I felt hammered, nailed, shingled out....
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Categories:
hopscotched, 12th grade, absence, america,
Form: Free verse
Ohiopyle, Pennsylvania Circa Early 1970's
...Ohiopyle, Pennsylvania circa early 1970'S
(just in time for end of summer reading...
recounting emotionally disastrous campy turbulence)
intended food for thought indulgence.
A boys' life ab...
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Categories:
hopscotched, 7th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Tom and Sis Rock It-Nursery Rhyme
...Tom and his sis hopscotched at the playground
Like two kangaroos going round and round
Their hops filled with wiggles
Here and there, more giggles
Two sock rockets orbit and soon touch down
1...
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Categories:
hopscotched, brother, fun, humor, sister,
Form: Limerick
Argh No More Medicare
...ARGH! NO MORE MEDICARE!
A worst nightmare loomed large
notification courtesy Montgomery County
Assistance Office caseworker
implied medical coverage axed
I felt hammered, nailed, shingled out....
...
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Categories:
hopscotched, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Bio
The Path To Least Resistance
...The Path To Least Resistance -
By: Sue S. Side
Amp pull ease just sparked insight,
I suddenly became aware,
(actually self actualization
came ohm to roost - dare
ring with mighty stir since ...
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Categories:
hopscotched, 7th grade, age, cry,
Form: Bio
Ice Pick Bones
...Old man winter slaps at the soul.
But my spade is smiling and sharpened.
I was born in Buffalo.
So, my bones are made from ice picks.
The heart pumps out rock salt by the bowl.
I've been through...
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Categories:
hopscotched, war, winter,
Form: Free verse
Unzipping My Sleeping Bag
...The morning sun had not yet cut the forest
into shadow and light, and the gray mist of the coming
day fell from the autumn sky.
The creeping fog added its damp prospective
to the Trees. Their vis...
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Categories:
hopscotched, nature, autumn, morning, red,
Form: Free verse
The Wellspring
...I have a source, still:
a singular supply, once hidden to me
-- not lost, but unremarked;
yet as I grew in skin and mind
one day I found its secret space.
When I was young the well
was always i...
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Categories:
hopscotched, on work and working,
Form: Free verse
Peaks
...Every Sunday, I'd hopscotch
to the top of the hill
behind your house.
Not because it was fun-
but because I knew you
would watch me-
and you watching
made my head dizzy
with laughter
so terr...
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Categories:
hopscotched, death, family, hope, life,
Form: I do not know?