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Picturing Autumn Thoughts

30 January 2012

  This shape poem uses lots of random, independent thoughts about autumn which have then been placed on the page as a picture, creating what is otherwise known as a calligram. It includes lots of metaphors, personification and imagery with some alliteration.

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Our Safe Place

30 January 2012

This poem is intended to be placed somewhere in the home, identifying that place as somewhere to speak freely and openly about the things we find it hard to discuss.  My hope is that it will encourage the development of a feeling of safety, openness and honesty within families, so that feelings aren’t left buried […]

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New Life in Christ

29 January 2012

Christ came to give us freedom, New attitude of mind……. To heal the broken-hearted The weak, infirm and blind.

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My Sister is a Bookworm

29 January 2012

This poem begins very sensibly, but the rhyming led me in a totally different direction…..so I followed and the story developed from there!  Check out the amount of alliteration in verse 3!

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My Mum’s Menagerie

29 January 2012

This silly word play poem is full of lots of animal sayings that have double meanings.

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My Bogie Collection

29 January 2012

This disgusting (sorry!) list poem includes lots of moments of alliteration, but is too disgusting a topic for my daughter to allow me to read aloud!  For some reason, she thinks that I’m immature!

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My Beautiful Nephew

29 January 2012

I wrote this poem when I got the news of my nephew’s birth.  The poem is written as a conversation and is full of alliteration (and of course,  emotion!)

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Ministry of Defence Calling!

28 January 2012

VROOP VROOP! Red alert! Aliens have landed. Their spaceship is on fire…. It looks like they are stranded.

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Minibeasts

28 January 2012

This rhyming list poem, includes a variety of minibeasts and includes lots of small references to their habitats and behaviour.

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Laughter and Progress : Best Friends Forever

28 January 2012

This story poem uses word play to make the case  that it’s good for education to be fun and that laughter helps us to make progress, whilst remembering that we must get the balance right too.  Read it, first of all as a story about Laughter and Progress as two living beings.  Then read it […]

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