early schools – the rope swing
Students in the one room school may have appreciated apple trees growing in the school yard. But there would have been other trees too. A hefty old red maple would have been a good place for a swing. Perhaps a simple rope swing, with a loop over a horizontal tree branch and a big old knot at the end for sitting.
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rope swing
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lunch hour
best spent
upside down
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legs wrapped
tight as twist
of hemp
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splayed ends
of the big knot
trail on the ground
follow hair and
dragging fingers
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world tipsy-turned
maple branch – a bridge across the sky
other kids stand on their heads
school house and outhouse
hang from the hill
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Copyright 2016 Jane Tims
nichepoetryandprose 
I love your drawings, Jane! You are so talented both in drawing and poetry.
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Rebecca
June 8, 2016 at 5:05 pm
Thanks Rebecca. I am having fun with my ‘school recess’ drawings. Jane
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jane tims
June 8, 2016 at 6:12 pm
Great little poem to go with the drawing, Jane. Thank you.
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rogermoorepoet
June 8, 2016 at 8:54 am
I don’t often put my poems on my blog but sometimes the drawing would like to have a poem!
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jane tims
June 8, 2016 at 11:22 am
Neat way of looking at it. If I didn’t put my poems on my blog, I wouldn’t have a blog!!!
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rogermoorepoet
June 8, 2016 at 11:49 am
One of my main goals is publication in literary journals. Often, they consider a poem that has appeared on the blog as published and will not accept it for their magazine. So I only publish some of my poems here.
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jane tims
June 8, 2016 at 1:12 pm
Good point. Everything I have published so far is a new revision of an already published piece of work. I am deep into the re-writing process at present.
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rogermoorepoet
June 8, 2016 at 1:18 pm