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Fireworks Fireworks go shooting and shrieking like power-packed rockets charging away into space. They go blazing and flashing like flames on a dragon’s fiery breath; twinking and gleaming, like drops from a magic fountain; leaping, looping, arching, swooping, swinging, like rainbows, in and out of sight through the deep, dark, finger-numbing night. Firework…
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Inside / Outside (Published in Australia’s School Magazine. 2012.) The clouds are crying,crying down my window pane.Today has given up, cancelled its afternoon,packed up, gone to bed, surrendered to doom and gloom. The birds have all stopped flying,my den-tree’s hanging its head –and the deeper the gloom,the more rain down the pane,the cosier it grows in…
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November poems coming to this site soon. Meanwhile, see my ruminations about November, and thoughts for Novemberish poems, @ http://poems4pockets.blogspot.co.uk/ (my new poetry blog). Perhaps you’re writing some Novembery stuff yourself !? At a glance, or a sniff at the rotting leaf mulch, it can seem a bit of a nothingy month. But once you…
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Stir your potion into motion: whisk it, twist it, make a commotion! Flip it, flop it, catch it, drop it… (the rest is @ my extra site, kids’ page: http://poems4pockets.blogspot.co.uk/p/for-teachers.html ) Bubble, bubble, toil and trouble, heating bills about to double! More of that sort @ http://poems4pockets.blogspot.co.uk/p/f.html . Beware the Wicked Winter Tree when it twists its twilight spell… …
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See new blog for my latest Hallowe’en rhymes – best suited to cynical, pumpkin-weary adults like me: http://poems4pockets.blogspot.co.uk/p/f.html More soon. Keeping this blog for my Poems for the Month. November’s to appear soonish.
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Hello, I’ve just set up a new site to share more of my poems, and offer comments, ideas, and reflections on related topics. I’ll be swapping poems in and out on all pages through the months, and posting thoughts daily or more. To view, click: poems4pockets@blogger .com It would be great hear your comments, positive,…
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The Trees Behind the Teachers’ Cars – Autumn Term Behind the cars the trees have turned to treasure – red as rubies, bold as gold bars. If Sir was a pirate he’d be cramming his boot with booty, except that it’s really just leaves, of course, gone bizarre. Published in Read Me At School, Macmillan,…
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Two poems for October Trees in the Breeze (Haiku) Golden autumn trees, like old, treasure-laden ships, roll and rise and roll. Can You Hear The Treetops? Can you hear the voices – the voices of the trees? Can you hear them singing to the gentle summer breeze? Can you hear them laughing? Can you hear…
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Welcome to autumn! (Or are we still at the tail-end of August?) Here are two poems to get us braced for autumn proper. The first (my latest published), was written for children; the second is more for adults – gardeners, DIY enthusiasts, and anyone with a fence. The Wind The wind went tugging at our…
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AUTUMN TOPICS for my poetry workshops: Street Sounds Autumn Trees Fireworks Winter Lights Aim: to get ideas, words and poetry flowing from children of all ages, backgrounds, academic abilities and confidence levels. Content: exciting, multi-faceted inputs, including physical movement, pictures, artefacts, poem to listen to, idea-swapping, language-rummaging and – for young children – song with guitar to…
Kate Williams 