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Schoolyard Walls (Free verse) by Joe-joe
The sounds of children playing
rebound off the old schoolyard walls.
Reflections of giggling bobby socked and pigtailed girls
and boys quarreling over a catch that clearly was not made.
Time has had its way with this sacred tomb.
And tittering girls and ball playing boys
have long since abandoned this urban field of dreams.
But those voices---they remain bound in this hallowed place
along with scores of others that I could never hear.
Only my own---only those in my time - - -
when I stroll by that cavern with cap in hand, remembering so clearly
that one handed catch I made near the old stain glass doors.
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Arithmetic Mean: 6.0
Weighted score: 5.2689414
Overall Rank: 3825
Posted: January 3, 2006 11:18 AM PST; Last modified: January 3, 2006 3:14 PM PST
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Chill man I'm just kiddin'. I actually think this poem's pretty good. You can't be that nasty if you live in Brooklyn. Now The Bronx, well that's a whole different story.
I'm only kidding too. The Humbert Humbert reference was actually pretty funny. Didn't Peter Sellers and James mason star in the film (Lolita, early to mid 60's)??? I think we're both showing our age here!!!
I'd just come off a big debate so I guess I was still a bit punchy with my comments. My apologies.