School Daze
My school was old
Red brick buildings
The teachers the same
Tall ceilings
The windows went
All the way to the top
On warm days
The teacher would open
Those very tall windows
The breeze would come in
And cool down the stuffy room
Which smelled like disinfectant
Erasure dust and paste
Lockers were in the back of the room
Where we would remove our coats
And place our lunch
The halls were dark
Light would stream in
From the end of the hall
The floors polished
The play-yard barren
There was some play equipment
And a tennis court
We played group games
At recess
I remember a circle
A red scarf and running
I was a good student
But someone was talking
All the time
Would interrupt my thoughts
At last, I found out it was me
August 15, 2018
annellannell 
You took me back to school days. Schools STILL smell the same way, amazingly. One of my schools was a big old building like that. Those tall windows………..
Thank you Sherry! Annell Livingston
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Nice ending finding out who was talking all the time. I remember those large closets for clothes where the lunches were kept.
Thanks Frank. But the lockers in the back of the room, were individual little lockers for little people. We didn’t have the large closets you had. Annell Livingston
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The smell of school still lingers after all these years. So nicely done, Annell, You tickled my senses and aroused my memories.
Thank you Kim. You did the best with the sharping of pencils… Annell Livingston
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LOVE the title! 🙂 And I really connected with the polished floors….and was it the game Duck Duck Goose where everyone is sitting in a circle and one child has a red scarf and slowly goes around the circle, at the backs of the children, saying duck, duck, duck and then says GOOSE at the child where the red scarf is dropped! That child has to pick up the red scarf and run around the cirle to try and catch the person before they come round to the empty space and plunk down there. Seems you could never catch the person because they always dropped the red scarf weirdly! 🙂
Tthank you Lillian, and Yes, I think you remembered the game. Duck, duck, duck….. Annell Livingston
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GOOSE!!! 🙂
That’s right! ❤️ Annell Livingston
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