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🙂 Hi, welcome to my blog! Here’s my latest snippet – this one from ‘Lucky Me!’. You can hear the whole little poem on YouTube here. If you have a child in your class or family who is struggling to adjust to a new parental arrangement between – say – parents and step-parents, this poem…
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😃 Good morning, afternoon, evening, whatever it may be with you right now! Thanks for your visit. This snippet is from my poem ‘What Are Families For?’ All these snippets are from published poems, by the way; some, like this one, have been published twice or more, in various anthologies and magazines for children. Details…
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😀 Hi, and thanks for your visit! Here is today’s little snippet from another of my published poems: ‘What is Summer For?’ In fact at time of posting, there’s not much sign of summer, here in Wales, UK, although it’s now August! But I hope it’s sunshine and blue skies where you are. Kate
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😀 Hello, thank you for visiting my posts. There are all sorts of poems and poetry-teaching ideas tucked away in the archives here, so do take a browse whenever – all FREE to use non-commercially, in school or at home. Here’s my latest poem snippet. It’s from ‘If Feelings Were Flavours’, published in ‘Poems about…
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😃 Good morning – or whatever time of day it is for you! Thanks for popping over. The trouble with published poems is that, a few weeks or months after publication, they’re usually forgotten about and left hidden away between pages, between covers, between other books on a shelf. So I’m giving little airings to…
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😀 Hello, thanks for looking in. This snippet is taken from my first ever published children’s poem – in ‘School Trips’, Macmillan: ‘Liam is Lost’. The trip to the museum is nearly over, but Liam is lost and all the children – and attending staff and assisting mums – are required to search for him.…
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😃 Hi, thanks for dropping in! Here is my next published snippet, this time from my poem ‘Puddle Pictures’. Here in Wales, we’ve got the puddles, but not the sunny sky for those reflections. How about where you are? I hope you’ve got the sunshine! Another snippet coming tomorrow. Meanwhile, lots more to read in…
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😃 Hello, thanks for visiting! Here’s my latest little poem snippet. This one’s from ‘Outside/Inside’, published several times. It brings comfort on a dark, wet day by showing how cosy it can feel indoors, by contrast, as the rain patters on the window. More tomorrow. Hope you’re getting sunshine where you are! Kate
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😃 Hi, welcome to my site! Here is my latest poetry snippet, from ‘My Town at Night’, in which the lights in the dark take on strange appearances. More tomorrow, from a different poem again. Kate
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😃 Hi, thanks for your visit! Here’s my next published poetry snippet, from ‘The Wind’: The wind makes a great theme for children to write about, whatever the weather outside but especially on a windy day. They love the personification potential – roar, howl, shriek, whimper etc. – and the fun you can have describing…
