Short Hopscotch Poems

Short Hopscotch Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Hopscotch by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Hopscotch by length and keyword.


A Yellow and Pink Sun

A yellow and pink sun smears and washes through an unfinished hopscotch square sing ~ Rain Rain Go Away ~
Form: Kimo


Premium Member The School Yard (Prime)

School
Recess
Run outside
Playing with my friends
Tether ball, Hopscotch, Jump rope
First we learn then we burn all our energy
Form: Epigram

How

Rain is brought about 
by angels playing hopscotch 
in puddles of celestial dew, 
thunder by God's breakfast 
grumbling in his stomach.

Night and Day

Night
Dark, Dreary
Sleeping, Sneaking, Shushing
Crime, Adults, Hopscotch, Children
Schooling, Swimming, Singing
Bright, Awake
 Day
Form: Diamante

Game Name Bt

Hop hon, hopscotch.
Having fun lives.
The balance lives.


Baulk Than-Than Baulk Poetry Contest
Sponsor charles messina
December 30, 2020
Form: Than-Bauk


Hopscotch

Hopscotch
Playing hopscotch is my favorite game
To play outside with my friends
We jump, we hop, we toss our rock 
Until 
     one of us wins!
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Backyard Hopscotch

Listen to poem:
I once tried hopscotch in reverse,
Backwards it went from bad to worse.
My hop was scotched,
My stone was botched,
I fell head over heels adverse!
Form: Limerick

Hopscotch

knobby-knee’d, toes that stop 
bend and pick up 
penny, marble, rock 
outside chalk 
on concrete, begging, for me to turn around 
for one more try

Premium Member Hopscotch

I saw God, so ... now what?

I wait,
standing in line 
at the grand Hopscotch Game

holding the stone in my hand 


Candide Diderot. ‘24 

Premium Member Good Old Days At Play

FORTIES PLAYTIME

Hopscotch
with whip and top
or marbles and five stones-
pastimes lost now in memory's
chasm.

Copyright © Brian Strand | Year Posted 2007
Form: Cinquain

Premium Member Hopscotch

Roman empire reigns, military exercise game, children imitate soldiers, mark chalk grids ~ cast tiny boulders ancient British pastime
Form: Rhyme

Backyard Hopscotch

Backyard hopscotch
One, two, three
Pick up the coloured stone
Hop to one knee
Toss up the speckled rock
Four, Five, six
Twist on the vibrant chalk
And cast another mix
Form: Rhyme

Child's Lesson

He ran from the room holding his crotch,
A trail of urine was behind his hopscotch,
His embarrassment was there for us all to see,
But he taught me lesson; don’t hold in your wee!
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Go Get Grandma Then

Let’s play hopscotch.
You get Mom.
She can’t do it!
Go get grandma then.
Okay!
I hear them and I laugh.
Mom can’t play but I can?
It makes no sense
Yet is completely logical.

Concession

You win.
Take circumstance
and all it's hopscotch words
and fling them far beyond me now
for you have taken every how and why
and blown my dandelion air
without rhyme or season
or consequence.
You win.

Happiness

Puppies playfully playing...
Newborn Babies Crying.....
Birds Singing in Trees.....
A Breeze on a Beach...
Children playing Hopscotch
Lots of Laughter
Cakes and ice-cream
Chitter Chatter
What a Daydrea

Onward Tiny Soldiers

Rising at her early dawn, Love's precious babies
Riding atop tiny ponies; plastic swords swirling high
Amid the air; on to joyous victory they go *.* Stopping
To play hopscotch while Daddyyyy (* takes care of the rest.
Form:

Premium Member Games We Played

Tag
   Hide-and-seek
   Duck-duck-goose
   Jump Rope
   Hula hoop
   Hopscotch
   Pitcher-catcher
   Running bases
   Steal the bacon
   500
   Whiffle-ball
   Kill-a-ma-roo
   Games we played
     ~ Me and you
Form: List

Innocence Skipped

The blonde playing hopscotch
had a tattoo

In a collision of eras,
her ponytail flew

As innocence skipped,
the ink started to run

A bastardized image
—of time overrun

(Villanova University Campus: October, 2019)
Form: Rhyme

Hopscotch

great scott
i'm not
Scottish

i plead
the plaid
take a fifth

of Irish
whiskey
not of scotch

but if you ask
i'll wear a kilt
but if you ask

what's worn
underneath
nothing is

worn 
all parts
are completely

functional
Form:

20 20

my vision 
is fine
i can see 
the lines
defined 
by the chalk
in my hand
and the cracks 
in the sidewalk

i also have
the rocks
that when
put on 
the spots
make me
hopscotch
dance but
never

to
step
on my
mother's

back
Form:

Not In Sight

Taking in vistas
breathing in autumn's perfume
squirrels hopscotch from branch to branch
juncos play a symphony for me
the wind whispers reminding me of emptiness on my sides
stinging me to the core with a sense of absence
till we meet again

Premium Member Oak Trees Are Crying In Kansas

It is one of those windy Kansas days
Felled oak trees roll along the country roads
Their roots are scraped and torn like hopscotch knees
They are as gnarled now as skeins of worn-out yarn
Do you hear them crying as they are being uprooted and blown?
I do.

Schizo Chess Master

hopscotch gray ash leper. 

   quicker to the tray with the 
  embers still burning .

  he smells of malt urine and
  pall mall ciggeretts.

  so steady his genius through
 yellow tar stained fingers. 

 leaping briliantly over checkered tiles 
 in the park.
Form: Ballad

Premium Member Backyard Hopscotch

As young kids, we loved playing hopscotch. Taking turns we would put big boxes on the sidewalk, then jump from box to box for hours. One day we took a can of spray paint, now we have a Backyard Hopscotch. The grass boxes look great in red, it now matches dad's face.

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