When the “Poetry Stretch” prompt to write about your favorite childhood game appeared, I immediately thought of playing ”jacks”. I played for hours at recess and was pretty good. Tried recently and was awful! How was I possibly coordinated enough to play?
But I also thought about the other game I played a lot: “hopscotch.” Last week’s prompt, the ricameter, seems to fit for this weeks prompt:
hopscotch
short hop, scratched lines
invented by Romans
throw your marker in the box, hop!
hope other player misses, steps on line
winner completes course first
sometimes I still
hop, hop
Wikipedia was my source for some history about “hopscotch”.
More poetry about childhood games can be found here. BTW, Jane Yolen has a fabulous poem about the game of “jacks”. Poetry Friday is being hosted at The Drift Record by Julia Larios.
Check It Out features a poem by Lucy Maud Montgomery.
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Poetry Friday: November Evening by Lucy Maud Montgomery « Check It Out // November 20, 2009 at 6:55 pm |
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annie // November 20, 2009 at 11:01 pm |
I loved hop scotch as a child. No matter where I lived, I could play hop scotch. No friends? Didn’t matter. I could always play hop scotch. And sometimes – the best part was drawing the lines and making the connecting boxes.