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😀Hi, welcome back – or for the first time, perhaps! Always welcome anyway! By the way, there’s lot’s to see on other pages here too, all around poetry for children – and with children in my workshops, so you might like a roam around. Today’s published snippet is from my poem, Dragon in the Sky:…
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Hi, thanks for popping in!Here’s my next snippet, this time from my poem ‘Moth in the Bathroom’: Moths are pests in a bathroom – intrusive, clumsy, noisy with their madly flapping wings… but outside in the murky twilight, where all the night creatures are stirring, a moth can be a mysterious, haunting little wilderness wanderer.…
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Hello, thanks for visiting my poetry site! I write for children, with all sorts of poems tucked away in different anthologies and lit. magazines for young readers, so I’m airing little snippets from some of them here at the moment – one a day. This little couplet is taken from ‘Different but the Same’ –…
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Hi, thanks for visiting! Here’s a dragon to greet you – from my poem, ‘The Wild Welsh Dragon’: If you have any children around, see if they can extend this dragon vision. What else might it be doing? What colour is it? What mood is it in? Where’s it heading? Another snippet coming tomorrow. Kate
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Hi, thanks for dropping in! Here’s my latest published snippet, this time from ‘Wrong Jump’ – published in a collection celebrating the Olympics, 2012: Ok, I’ll give the end away, as it’s not shown here: this person is jumping high, but the contest was for LONG jump. Hence ‘wrong jump’. Oops! More tomorrow, Kate
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Hello, thanks for checking out my posts! This tiny snippet is from a little rhyme called ‘Looking Through the Lily Pond’. Have you ever dropped your phone into water? Toilets are the most common, so watch out in there! Another published poem snippet coming soon.Kate
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STOP PRESS! My new book – Squeak! Squawk! Roar! Amazing Animal Poems – publishes on 9th January ’25. Publisher: Otter-Barry Books. Available from Amazon and all good bookshops, or your local library – if you still have one! It’s the squawk of the town!🐔_________________________________________________________________________________________ Hi, thanks for dropping by. Here’s my next tiny snippet, this…
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STOP PRESS! My new book – Squeak! Squawk! Roar! Amazing Animal Poems – publishes on 9th January ’25. Publisher: Otter-Barry Books. Available from Amazon and all good bookshops, or your local library – if you still have one! It’s the squawk of the town!🐔_________________________________________________________________________________________ Hi, thanks for checking out my posts! I’m focusing on published…
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Hi! As your eyes travel downwards through these little lines, think upwards. My poem ‘Beetle Business’ is the source. Next snippet coming tomorrow. Kate
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Hi, thanks for visiting my poetry site! This is from my poem ‘Recipe for a Night Sky’ – Next poetry snippet coming soon – all from poems of mine that have been professionally published, in print form. No poem quoted twice. All my poems are for children, by the way, so you won’t find anything…
