'Games I Use To Play' Poem by Linda Winchell

There were games I use to play as a child
like hop scotch, or tag, ' your it! '

Red Rover, Red Rover let someone come over
breaking through childrens hands linked like some broken stick.

Then ball and jacks, trying to grab them up
and marbles, drawn circle in the dirt.
Riding bikes as fast as our legs could petal
no helmets then, no one really seemed to get that hurt.

Then Red Light, Green Light, and Mother made a chocolate cake
it's where someone stuck their finger in it!
Then you turned around and tried to find
the one that really did it!

Then jump rope singing songs about a girl named Mary
jumps counted of the many times she was kissed.
Until you jumped not high enough
feet caught in the ropes try you've missed.

The games I use to play, so very long ago.
When children knew how to be children
not rushing their lives then to grow.