Georgetown Highschool Fire Drill Today
On top--Georgetown's outdoor blackboards
Setup classmate's first-time meetup sort out
Schoolboys head out--henceforth buddy up one-on-one
Outside schoolyards baseball's first base
Schoolgirls show up--nearby football goalpost
Categories:
schoolyards, 12th grade, education, fire,
Form: Free verse
land of lost shadows
and unweathered skies
five urban colours
through unflinching eyes
tall distant chimneys
and schoolyards at play
smoke drifting sideways
in stillness each day
sketches on packets
of stained cigarettes
strange brooding faces
and marionettes
people bent walking
with heads looking down
- if lowry was living
he'd have painted my town.
Categories:
schoolyards, art,
Form: Ekphrasis
Let us stroll down memory lane;
skipping past the hurts locked in time.
Choosing days where life felt sublime;
let's revisit those once again.
Remember when you were a child;
think of the games you played for fun.
And when you hit that first home run,
your team applauded; how you smiled!
Hide-and-seek and Mother May I
were fun games you didn't want to end.
And Bogeymen was all pretend;
every parent told that white lie.
Marbles were treasures you traded
and hoarded like bubble gum cards.
Girls played hopscotch in the schoolyards,
and the boys joined once persuaded.
In the Summer, you'd stay outside
until it got too dark to play.
Christmas was your favorite day,
nothing could compare with Yuletide.
Memories you cannot relive
preserve glimpses of times gone past.
Unique times, your heart has amassed,
enjoying all life had to give.
Categories:
schoolyards, 10th grade, age, beautiful,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Come back Martin, come back.
If there is any way please come back, quickly.
We need your words of Utopia,
your powerful metaphors of brotherhood.
Freedom is not the object.
Everyone is free, too free,
free to do as they please
even if it means, take a life.
People die every day in
the streets of the city
the schoolyards
the workplaces
the highways
gunned down, just like you.
Madmen rule the world
playing with it like marbles and badly need wisdom.
Come back Martin, come back
and bring Mahatma too.
10/17/18
Categories:
schoolyards, emotions, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Love destroys what sex begins,
as playgrounds and schoolyards
hide the true nature of the King
Innocence bleeding,
within the deep warm incision
of a preternatural beginning
(West Philadelphia: October, 1972)
'From An Anthology Of Perception Vol. #1'
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Categories:
schoolyards, innocence,
Form: Blank verse
When snow starts falling in Canada
We know winter games shall begin.
Do we just sit around fireplaces?
No, that would be a sin.
Snowball fights daily in our schoolyards,
Till the bell calls them in.
Rosie red cheeks on children,
Mittens with scarf’s and hats,
Snowmen in every front yard,
Put away are the bats.
Indoors a haven for cats.
Ski’s out and waxed,
Skates sharp as knives,
Skating rinks are full
Of children, husband, wives.
Tobogganing so exiting,
Curling extremely fun,
Hockey, number one.
Cold feet,
Hot chocolate.
Winter.
10.14.2014
Andrea Dietrich’s Contest
I do not Know
7th
Categories:
schoolyards, cool, fun, hockey, snow,
Form: Rhyme
TV on - outside cars rushing by
quckly on the
FDR drive
Another evening on the Lower East Side
The place radiates nostalgia
My grandparents now in eternity
came here for a better life
I see the murals, the House of Sages
the Foward building
I read the Hebrew letters
which say House of Study
Kids playing in schoolyards
Hasidim with furry hats
People walking dogs
Spanish people playing dominoes
The mailman comes by
hopefully bringing
more published poetry
Day morphs into night
Switch on T.V., meditation CD
A heavy sense of peace
descends on me
here in thsi most urban of neighborhoods
Fabled LES
Categories:
schoolyards, nostalgia, urban,
Form: Concrete