Three HexSonnettas

Hexagon by Claudine Rodriguez,2005; image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

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European Education

“In Paris, you learn wit, in London, you learn to crush your social rivals,
in Florence, you learn poise.” ~Virgil Thomson

In Paris, you will learn

to use your clever wit.

In London, you’ll admit,

you’ll crush your foes, in turn,

as social rivals burn.

That’s how you will acquit

yourself with great aplomb.

And then, in Florence, you’ll

be brilliant, oh-so-cool

and hold glam in your palm.

With poise you can be calm

(A guideline – not a rule.)

In travel, you’ll go far

just like a boss rock star.

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Unrequited Love

“I tell you I like you all the time.  Or at least in my head, I do… “~Unknown

This unrequited crush

is solely in my head:

a constant running thread

about which I could gush

but words are all a-hush.

I wish I could, instead,

say what I truly think.

I’d like to ask you out

but then, I’m filled with doubt.

I’m almost at the brink

when confidences shrink

How long can this drag out?

                          

This unrequited view

must go.  “Hey…I like you…”

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Child’s Play

With driveway chalk we drew
a hopscotch board of squares:
some single; some in pairs,
and then we got in queue.
A stone, each kid then threw
to mark off ‘ mine’ or ‘theirs.’

We played ‘til Tim got bored.
He tapped someone. “Hey, you
are it!” The game morphed to
Freeze Tag. Our giggling horde
would dash, then freeze, to ward
off being tagged. It’s true.

We only left the street
to go inside to eat.

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Notes:  The form is HexSonnetta, which is the In-Form Poet form of the day at Poetic Bloomings.  The first two poems were inspired 'Crush,' the theme for today at Khara House's Thirty by Thirty Challenge.  The third poem was based on the prompt of 'Child's Play' at Robert Lee Brewer's Poetic Asides.