Tag: School

Summer days

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Summer holidays

a break from school and routine

more time for nature

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by Scooj

  • On reflecting on the joy of summer holidays when I was a youngster and I could spend time in Cornwall with my grandparents and commune with nature, all day, every day. Happiest of days.

Street sounds

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Teenage boys yelling

with semi-broken voices

herald the weekend

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by Scooj

Morning break

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Children’s playground cries

tumble down the mottled hill

then silence returns

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by Scooj

School walk

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Children sit on walls 

or wait on pavement corners

as they coalesce 

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excited morning greetings

friendship groups saunter to school

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by Scooj 

Dread

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Returning to school

such a miserable thing

even via Zoom

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by Scooj

Getting personal

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COVID creeps closer

school year eleven bubble

confined to barracks

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by Scooj

A memory

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Cold winter shower

after house football at school

sadistic teachers

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by Scooj

Day 1

 

With some excitement

teens get extended school break

then… dad I’m so bored

 

Aargh Scooj

School

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Up to school for an

information evening

slight feeling of dread

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by Scooj

School swimming lessons remembered

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That little schoolboy

petrified and insecure;

a bully teacher.

Butterflies in his tummy

and mental paralysis.

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by Scooj