Child’s Play

What would your inner young person rather be doing today?

• skipping rope
• fishing
• playing games
• coloring, painting, drawing
• playing tag
• swimming at the pool, in a lake, on the beach
• hopscotch
• playing ball (basket, base, tennis, kick, dodge tether…)
• roller skate or skate board
• billiards
• eating ice cream from the ice cream truck or local ice cream store
• cruising down central avenue
• suntanning
• hanging out
• doing your nails
• lifting weights at the gym
• _____________________

Gosh. The choices are endless as they are individual.

For today’s poem, create a world for your inner child or teen to inhabit. What does it look like? Include sights, sounds, scents, texture, even taste in your descriptive treatment.

Feel free to use flashbacks, and language typical for the age group.

Here are a few poems to inspire:

“Directions Back to Childhood” by Judith Waller Carroll

“Elegy with Ice Cream” by Kathy Nelson

“When I Got My Ears Pierced” by Sophie Cohen

“Gleeful” by Christina M. Rau

“On the Eve of Roberto Clemente’s Third Miracle” by Michael Brockley