Childhood Jump Poems

Jump in joy
Be a big boy
No longer a broken toy
Avoid being a fool, not witty or clever, but a bothersome boy
I don’t mean to annoy
Blur...

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She gripped the phone in the kitchen 
Walking around tethered by 
The longest cord I’d ever seen 
One you could play jump rope with.


This poem...

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When I travel near and far, 
I find a cookbook that is a real star.
With thousands of great recipes to cook, 
How in the world...

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A Jump in the puddle
and that's all it takes
to see some bubbles
and the noise it makes;
Splash splash splash
there's water all around
the joy of rain or...

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Let Them Jump on the Bed

By Elton Camp

I can see a mistake we parents make for sure
Let children jump on the bed when immature

When I...

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there’s a curve 
at the end of every sidewalk 
did you know every block’s 
measured by the lazy way a rope
skips and ponytails itself down...

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Jumping on a trampoline
Falling off could be quite mean!
Jumping up with leaps and bounds
Oh how fun that really sounds!...

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Just so was the timing

Up she went and when

More steps became

Possible she moved out, and then

Returned in a flash

Open to the tempo

Pleased as her feet...

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Shannon,
I knew her in 
middle school
friends caught 
somewhere between
being children, pre-teen
adults.

We jumped with
a wooden handled rope 
across the stage
in Tom Sawyer.

1890's leather
and petticoats
galloping and swishing
against...

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