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VCFA Journal of the Arts
by Pauline Clarke
I’m jumping,
I’m hopping,
I’m skipping my rope,
As it lifts and
it turns and
it falls.
It starts out behind me,
and ends up below me,
but right at the top
it…………………stalls.
I’m thinking,
while hopping,
and skipping my rope,
that it waits
as it’s coming
around,
So I can be ready,
To hold myself steady,
As both of my feet
leave the ground.
Pauline Clarke is a 2005 graduate of the Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults. Her writings have been published in Countryside Magazine, Scholastic’s Instructor Magazine, and the Berkshire Record, a weekly newspaper in western Massachusetts. She has also self-published a collection of her newspaper columns in a book called Writing Down the Words. Pauline is an assistant instructor at the second grade level and loves introducing youngsters to the delights of creative writing and poetry composition. She lives at the end of a secret path in the Berkshire hills.
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I know that secret path, Pauline.
In Tewkesbury (UK) a jumping rope is a skipping rope.