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Sandboxes
Sandboxes Poems - Poems about Sandboxes
Poor Substitutes
... Our playgrounds have faded swings stilled, sandboxes unfilled Where are the shovels and pails ~ replaced by profits and sales ......
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©
Gershon Wolf
Categories:
sandboxes,
childhood, games, money, moving
Form:
Rhyme
Play
...Kids know that creation is play; understand that imagination requires endless reconstruction. Grown-ups rely on buckets of hope and pinches of salt, forget how to play. Broken toys in long......
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©
Eric Ashford
Categories:
sandboxes,
poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Fascination
...Fascination with sand -- Sandboxes, Sand castles Sandpipers, Sands of Time Sand dunes, Sand dials, Sandman.........
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©
Gershon Wolf
Categories:
sandboxes,
assonance, language,
Form:
Alexandrine
The Incineration of Childhood
...We drank tang because the astronauts did... Our plastic spacemen sashayed in sandboxes we made lunar capsules out of tinfoil on Halloween spacemen mingled with mad clowns jack o lanterns and gho......
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©
Anthony Biaanco
Categories:
sandboxes,
age, america, space,
Form:
Free verse
Playground Secrets
...Secrets hide in playgrounds Tall shadows for concealing Sandboxes glow all around Gloom feeds off feelings Bad dreams pose as fakes Old lies parade and glare Shame glosses most mistakes Lone......
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©
Susan Gentry
Categories:
sandboxes,
angst, conflict, dark, emotions,
Form:
Rhyme
A Night On a Wharf
...A Night On A Wharf The couple decide to walk. The boardwalk still lit at this late hour guides them. They walk hand in hand,..whispering softly with small talk...solemn.,. lonely , yet together. T......
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©
Chris Falvey
Categories:
sandboxes,
blessing,
Form:
Carpe Diem
"childhood Dreams"
...When I close my eyes and go to sleep.... I dream in places that take me deep.... Just where we can run and play.... A park in my mind where the two of us can stay... There is swings and sandboxes......
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©
Michael J. Falotico
Categories:
sandboxes,
childhood
Form:
Rhyme
Changes
...Sandboxes and shovels once made us complete Everyone used to be so sweet We played and laughed until the sun went down All fifth birthdays had a clown No one ever dared to cheat Nothing was e......
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©
Alysa Shupe
Categories:
sandboxes,
life,
Form:
Bio