Good advice, Andrew, I think. Here's swinging version 2. Hope the spacings
stay the same as on my page.
Bill
Monkey Bars 2
Queue up at recess and lunch
Get ready for
swinging action
Many options available
Fourers for the fearless
swing-dangling from
one clinging hand
skipping two intervening bars
investing fully in reaching that fourth bar with your other outstretched
hand
even at risk of your head
bobbing up to hit an intervener
Momentum the trick
so from the top rung
of the blue-grey metal ladder
lean out
to the
third bar
grip
then let her rip
hips and legs adding propulsion
And don't stop there
maintain momentum
until swing-off
at other end
Thing is you had to be of a size
to pull off fourers
grade five or six
Three-ers were all most could stretch to
in grade four
Two-ers were piddlers
but exciting in their way
ground being
so far below
when you are that small
Monkey bar magic
That rush of created wind
playground chatter sounds changing
as you w h i z z by
no longer
earthbound
bw
7.12.16
On Wed, 7 Dec 2016 at 11:34 AM, Andrew Burke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> The lines are a bit rigid, stuck to the left hand margin as they are. Give
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> the page more flight and energy by staggering the lines ... Just a thought:
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> the page is your playground. (As Duke said, 'It don't mean a thing if it
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> ain't got that swing!')
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>
>
> Andrew
>
>
>
> On 7 December 2016 at 07:41, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Queue up at recess and lunch
>
> > Get ready for swinging action
>
> > Many options available
>
> >
>
> > Fourers for the fearless
>
> > swing-dangling from one clinging hand
>
> > skipping two intervening bars
>
> > investing fully in reaching that fourth bar with your other outstretched
>
> > hand
>
> > even at risk of your head
>
> > bobbing up to hit an intervener
>
> >
>
> > Momentum the trick
>
> > so from the top rung
>
> > of the blue-grey metal ladder lean out
>
> > to the third bar
>
> > grip
>
> > then let her rip
>
> > hips and legs
>
> > adding propulsion
>
> >
>
> > And don't stop there
>
> > maintain momentum
>
> > until swing-off at other end
>
> >
>
> > Thing is you had to be of a size
>
> > to pull off fourers
>
> > grade five or six
>
> > Three-ers were all most could stretch to
>
> > in grade four
>
> > Two-ers were piddlers
>
> > but exciting in their way
>
> > ground being so far below
>
> > when you are that small
>
> >
>
> > Monkey bar magic
>
> > That rush of created wind
>
> > playground chatter sounds changing
>
> > as you whizz by
>
> > no longer earthbound
>
> >
>
> > bw
>
> > 6.12.16
>
> >
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> --
>
> Andrew
>
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