Short Recess Poems

weary congress,
on recess, while
a mess still looms...

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School
Recess
Books, homework
Don't make me go!
Learn...

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Really
Ecstatic
Children
Excitedly
Shout
"Sweetness!!!"...

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Testing overload
Small brown kids with no recess
Racing to the top...

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Fly
content
inward to
niche of joy, your
nest.
...

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Thoughts we
often recess
in hidden corners of
sensory impression's eye...then
inter....

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Thoughts we
often recess
in hidden corners of
sensory impression's eye...then
inter....

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Running around getting my 
Exercise, in the 
Coolness of 
Each day
Sunup to 
Sunset I play....

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Kindergarten Recess

A tiny elephant stampede
all for the golden ring of an empty swing.

©Kathryn McLoughlin Collins...

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ocean waves rush in
like rambunctious preschoolers
at morning recess
eager to entertain you
in goofy games of pretend...

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

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Haven of rest
A quiet tranquil recess
Balmy cove
My Solitary retreat
Hovel where nature calmly unfolds
Resuscitating faint soul...

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His future went to swim
by shores of Lake Wisdom
Now he is in shark’s stomach
shouting for rescue squad
not aware they are in recess...

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Time Out! It feels so good
To sit in the sun,
And breathe in the air.

Birds sing! Warm air is balmy...
I smell the flowers,
And I don’t have a care....

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the children all cheer

there will be no indoor recess

hooray rain they yell

glad to be inside

watching their inane U-tube

indoor children now...

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as the school bell rings
children are shrieking with glee

    recess is over.

          a sudden rain of bombs leaves
          the playground deathly silent...

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no physical adventure
can hope to compare
to the adventure of imagination
verdent green vines of ideas
lurk deep in the recess of my dendrite highways
waiting to surprise me...

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Dark recess of the arched church
Light filtering through the windows
Spirit flowing towards God

Holy trinity blessing the soul above the altar

For the contest 'Praise Pariku'...

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Steampunk Mama with a zing in her step
Did a twirl and a kick, she was full of pep.
Her clothes were traditional, her look was grand.
She was in charge of a gear and wheel recess band....

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Days of marbles

where recess

would find us

in the old school yard

gathering around

the circle we had made,

hoping we would fill our

bag full, before the bell rang.


Written 5-30-11...

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there is nothing like the taste of a first kiss
the sweet smell of bubble gum while still in the mouth
while hiding behind a trash dumpster in kindergarten at recess
kissing the boy of your dreams at age five...

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Hidden in the recess
Developing within the walls
A system to educate 
A system that evolves
Statistically a witness to charts and scales
The beginning of the grading towards judgement
To pass or to fail...

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Recess is over. It's time for class
   What's the kid got there
      --A bug in a glass?

Think now, teacher
   Is your class boring, perchance?
      This kid's really interested
         ~ Here's your big chance!...

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In its whisperings and articulations 
A searchlight into that hidden recess
The bane of acquisitions 
Becomes the flight from humility
On which freedom rests 
Shall we render benefaction of such
Crude and insidious notions........

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It's Recess, or whatever 
He calls his downtime.  God's 
at play in the sky, bowling popcorn 
balls of cumulus against the walls 
of a candy sky.  He does not wear 
a long white beard, or flowing 
robes. He's shaved, and
got his rompers on....

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