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Open Poetry #12

Stones on the Ground

VAS
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-11-16

Posts 7450
Oregon

0 posted 2001-03-07 05:36 PM

Stones On the Ground
Virginia Salter

Hopscotch, hopscotch,
stones on the ground.

Pigtails, ponytails,
eyes of brown.

ABC’s, 1-2-3’s
music’s rhythms fly.

We play
at being children
my friend and I.

Down the road
someone has a plan

To take away
our innocence
with the back of a hand.

Down another road
someone’s feeling sore
planning dastardly deeds
behind the schoolroom door.

We wanna hang
by our knees and swing.

We wanna laugh and play
hear the school bell ring.

We wanna make Valentines
an’ give a little pinch
when green is not sported
on nary an inch.

We wanna be little,
and we wanna grow big
not fall prey to someone
who doesn’t give a fig.

© March 7, 2001

Denise

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Member Seraphic

since 1999-08-22

Posts 22648

1 posted 2001-03-07 07:44 PM

Too many children have their innocence taken away. Very sad. You've expressed it well, Virginia.

Marsha

Member Rara Avis

since 2000-07-10

Posts 7423
Maidstone Kent England

2 posted 2001-03-08 08:21 AM

Virginia love, this is truly first class writing from you, absolutely excellent work. You have portrayed this very difficult subject with a degree of clarity that I really know I could never do.
So back up to the top you go love
Take care love as always
Mushy

Take back the hope you gave,- I claim
Only a memory of the same
Robert Browning

suthern

Member Seraphic

since 1999-07-29

Posts 20723
Louisiana

3 posted 2001-03-08 11:02 AM

Your last verse is a right that should be granted every child... and the sadness is overwhelming that such is not the case... Well done!

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