Autumn, First School Week

Prompt of the week:  "we’ll invite you to write poetry or prose inspired by Autumn (rituals, foods, colors, celebrations… or anything that makes autumn memorable and/or special)."

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First Week of School 

Autumn, first week of school 

First of my school learning 

First week with girls up close 

All dressed up pretty like 

I liked her, she liked me 

Her daddy liked me too 

My parents held me back 

Back so that she'd have me 

Me to make two students 

Two students in her class 

Come third grade she's not there 

Daddy had pulled her out 

A private school for her 

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 - Photo and Poem Copyright Jimmiehov 2025 All Rights Reserved 

- I am linked with Rommy at "Friday Writings" 196 at  https://poetsandstorytellersunited.blogspot.com/?m=1 

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Note:  This was my school, I am the boy in back, a 4th grader.  My sister was the little girl in front near our teacher, she was a 1st grader, we did not have kindergarten.  Four of us were cousins.  

We lived a mile from the school and generally walked to and from school.  The teacher borded with a farm couple living within walking distance, we had school regardless of the weather.  On bad weather my father would have me unter a tarp in a trailer pulled by two horses. 

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