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Playgrounds Poems - Poems about Playgrounds


Premium Member playgrounds once upon a time
once upon a time in the fifties and sixties school playgrounds had small merry-go-rounds and teeter totters aka seesaws our slides were as tall as our nine story school house safety was not a big deal no one wore helmets or kneepads our job was to play have adventures and love our life I miss those playgrounds...

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Categories: playgrounds, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
abandoned playgrounds
discarded kites cemented on trees and abandoned playgrounds with broken swings must have been brothers in another life with a mother who wasn't theirs and a father who wasn't home or were they calamitous lovers the sun, and the moon only to realise one is inferior; sun is a star too or or did they trade their lives for love did they ever meet...

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Categories: playgrounds, 11th grade, feelings,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Playgrounds In Mid-July
The playgrounds are empty mid-July Sun makes the equipment scorching hot Enough to make naked legs literally fry No children today with a piercing cry, Moms say when dusk comes they'll try Again, in the park, to appease their tot The playgrounds are empty mid-July Sun makes the equipment scorching hot! Written July 22, 2022...

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Categories: playgrounds, children, fun, july, summer,
Form: Triolet
Premium Member Summertime Playgrounds Haiku-
SUMMERTIME PLAYGROUNDS Haiku cheerful summertime those the children so wallows before the playgrounds 8/12/21 Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2021 ©...

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Categories: playgrounds, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Sabbath Playgrounds
Sunday afternoons, or Saturday afternoons, look and feel richer, dense relational liturgy of mundane ritual, often more sabbath quiet. Quiet neighborhood school playground celebrates more solitary visits seeking silent sensory selftalk, muse swings back and forth, happy slides up elational, processional, then downright ecstatic. Sunday's GratitudeGoRound of a warm winter's sun pretexting Spring's redemptive dance, prancing across wet jungle gyms of mythic pirate romance, swinging Tarzans and Janes flying rope to rope bar to...

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Categories: playgrounds, culture, heaven, humanity, light,
Form: Free verse



Playgrounds...
Remember... Parties in vast, secluded fields, Bonfires, Kegs of beer... Unwitting parents believing...

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Categories: playgrounds, adventure, friendship, happiness, love,
Form: Free verse

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