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Trapper Boy Poems

12 February 2012

  This was a job done by the youngest of the Victorian poor children. Victorian children in Britain could expect to work 12, or even 18 hours a day down the mines.  This page includes haikus and a shape poem about life for the trapper boys in Victorian Britain.

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The Unfriendly Chimpanzee

12 February 2012

        Just a fun animal poem, written with my usual, childish immaturity!

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The Sun, to the Night Sky

12 February 2012

      This sun poem is another one of my personification examples.

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The Sun: Examples of personification

11 February 2012

  I have used italics to highlight the examples of personification in this poem: these are all the occasions when human qualities have been given to the subject. There are also lots of metaphors and some alliteration.

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The Sun

11 February 2012

  This very simple sun poem is great for teaching personification to children.  Many children automatically relate to the sun as a smiling face, so this poem introduces personification to them using this idea.  I have also included some questions to use to study it more closely.

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The Power of The Written Word

10 February 2012

This encouragement, performance poem, written with rhyme and rhythm, very clearly puts across my belief that the written word has real power, and encourages every child to learn to develop that skill to use it to their maximum potential.

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The Foul Creature

9 February 2012

    This immature story poem began as a serious thoughtful mystery, but the rhyming led me elsewhere!

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Tears of Rain

9 February 2012

  This is a very simple shape poem which includes some personification.

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Teach Us To Pray

8 February 2012

This is my personal interpretation of the way Jesus taught us to pray, (The Lord’s Prayer), in accordance with Matthew Chapter 6 verses 9 to 13

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Striving for Success

8 February 2012

    This free verse poem is full of word play, metaphors and strong verbs.  I usually prefer to write with rhyme and rhythm but this is one of those occasions when I felt that free verse would be better as it gave so much freedom to play with words that have two different meanings.

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