The prompt for today asked us to think about games that we've played in our lives. I go back to spring and summer childhood nights when the sound of the ropes hitting the pavement punctuated the jump rope ditties we sang out.
Double Dutch
Thunk, thunk, swoosh
Down in the Valley
Thunk, thunk, swoosh
Where the green grass grows
Thunk, thunk, swoosh
There sat Sally
Sweet as a rose
If I had a nickel
For each time Sally sat
In the valley
Thunk, thunk, swoosh
And we jumped
Sweet as a rose
‘Tween the double ropes
Thunk, thunk, swoosh
deflected our feet
Left and right
The cadence
Our heart beats
In the air
If I had a nickel
I’d be yours
‘Til soda pops
