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๐ Hello, thanks for popping in! Here’s today’s snippet – belatedly! This one is from ‘Wind-Whirling Wand’, a poem that looks at the magical and marvellous aspects of a wind turbine. This poem celebrates alternative energy, or on a children’s level, celebrates the wonders of a modern windmill (or turbine) that whisks up the blue…
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๐ Hello, thanks for your visit! Here’s my latest poetry snippet, this one from ‘Watching through the Window’: Children may enjoy illustrating this image of a busy street, with people heading in criss-cross directions. They could also add further details, such as ‘A mother pushing a pushchair along, a happy couple, chatting and laughing, a…
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๐ Good afternoon, or whatever time it is with you! Here is my latest snippet from my published poetry. This one’s from ‘Wrapping Christmas Parcels’ – assuming you’ve had that same sticky tape in a hurry experience that I battle with every year! Children may enjoy adding a verse to the poem about where that…
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๐ Hello, thanks for stopping by. Here is my latest published poetry snippet. This one is from ‘The Trees Behind The Teachers’ Cars: Summer’, part of a 4-season, 4-verse poem. Your children (family or class) may enjoy thinking up other ways to describe summer trees, or other similes to describe them – ‘like…’. Another snippet…
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๐ Hi, welcome to my site, or welcome back if you’ve been here before! Here’s my next random snippet from my published poetry: this from ‘Space Has No Ceiling’. Quite a thought, isn’t it, for thinkers of any age! What else hasn’t space got, that our precious world has? Colours? Music? Toys? See what your…
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๐ Hello and thank you for looking in. Here is my latest published poem snippet, from ‘Mutual Wish’, about friends who each lack confidence in themselves and wish they were each other. As with all these snippets, it could be used to spark a poetry or prose writing session with your children, or as inspiration…
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๐ 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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๐ 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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๐ 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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๐ 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…