Tag, your it

Tag your it

freeze tag, stay

a swoosh, a breeze

a tap on the shoulder

move again and tag

freeze tag , stay

frozen in a spot

tag your it

now tag another

freeze them 

freeze tag, stay

a tap on the back

move again and tag

turn sideways miss a tag

run and run

tag your it

chase and tag

freeze tag, stay

now hit the hay

bones frozen and stiff 

Author's Note

childhood afternoons...the best

Reviews

[ANTO]

Here In Belfast we had Queenio; 1..2..3 Red Light; kiss-chase and 'Break the chain'. Thanks for refreshing those lovely times in my memory - those times......before things went and got all complicated
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[Holly Mason]

mental childhood breaks are needed at times ...red light love that game
kiss-chase...hum bet the boys had lots of bruised knees ...run boys run! hahahha
thank you kindly

[ANTO]

I still get bruised knees Holly and Im married for 15 years (I think...ooer?) - but its from all the begging for S*x. lol - but on a tangent - Im really surprised that we may have played the same games as children - you in the USA and me in Ireland...wow
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[Holly Mason]

we also played break the chain...and king of the mountain...I like things with engines so I ditched by 5th grade for a moped and a skiff (nonmotorized) but i lived by the Indian river in Fl. and I love the water...but all these games we played and mind games as well hahahah

[ANTO]

Oh yeah - the mind games. Over here we boys often had our friends ask the girls friends if they would 'see' us. 'See' in Belfast means a wee bit of a kiss.
A biggie here was hopscotch and handball too (God help the poor residents who happened to live in the end of a row of terraced houses because their gable ends became our court).
Oh Holly you have brought such succour with your poem

[Rita L. Sev]

Such a vivid memory of this simple game... I want to play! The easy joys of childhood - frozen in the memories of our bones. Great write, Holly!

[jacob erin-cilberto]

i see the childhood in this, but i see another level...the tag we play with each other's hearts...and how often we are tagged, and we freeze...as children, we just start moving again...as adults who have experienced life, love and other stuff...it isn't so easy to move again.

[Holly Mason]

sometimes frozen is better then thawed...thank you fine sir truly

[Frieda P]

Oi, this one kicked my can...;-) Tag you're it!

[Holly Mason]

can I move yet? thank ya fine lady

[Frieda P]

Nope, it's freeze tag....

[Jack...]

You can say that again. Tag, Kick the can, sandlot baseball...no better times in my mind. Thank you for the memory slap Holly.

[Holly Mason]

well I suppose in today's world it would be- Kick the plastic water bottle*)
thank you fine sir