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Just Let Me In

1 April 2016

  Christian Poetry This Christian poem recognises the loneliness of suffering internally, while those around us are oblivious to our pain, but acknowledges my belief that God is always close by to help and sees everything.   In times of fear and loneliness When people pass us by Oblivious to every deep And silent, anguished […]

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The Worlds Outside My Window

31 March 2016

  Creative Writing This children’s poem lists lots of different worlds which each infer something  about themselves simply by their title and spark off a child’s imagination.  I used the poem with an assembly of 5 to 7 year olds and asked them to choose a place and use the title to imagine more about […]

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Wish World

31 March 2016

  Creative Writing This rhyming children’s poem is the result of simply telling a group of 5 to 7 year olds the title and asking them to describe ‘Wish World’ to me.  It demonstrates how easily inspired young children are to unleash their imaginations!  The poem includes examples of alliteration, and is full of imagery. I […]

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Picture This

31 March 2016

Nature Poems   I love the calming effect that nature has on me.  This poem is the result of one of those moments when I forced myself to take time out.  It is written as a list poem and uses character reflection and imagery to carry the reader through the gradual process of the changing […]

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Five Silly Children

30 March 2016

  Silly Poems   Teachers and children alike will be able to relate to this silly children’s list poem about the consequences of cockling on chairs, which includes several examples of alliteration, and a couple of examples of onomatopoeia   Five silly children cockling on their chairs All of a sudden they were caught unawares……

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Where Do All Your Ideas Come From?

28 March 2016

  Creative Writing   This poem began as a reply to an email that I received which literally began with the words “Where do all your ideas come from?”  I couldn’t resist the temptation to answer in rhyme, to prove my point that every situation presents an opportunity to write!   Where do all my […]

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Picture Perfect Butterfly

8 March 2016

  Nature poems Nature is the perfect inspiration for poetry. The beauty, design and purpose of the butterfly inspired this gentle conversational poem, which is full of figurative language, including examples of alliteration, personification and metaphors.   How beautiful the butterfly; heaven’s carefree alibi. Apple of the artist’s eye; you’re picture perfect, butterfly.

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God’s Upside Down Ways

5 March 2016

  Christian Poetry   This Christian Easter poem focusses on the fact that God works in mysterious ways, and has a different perspective to the way the world sees things; hence Jesus’s death on a cross being the ultimate victory!

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A Letter from Goldilocks

4 March 2016

  A Letter from Goldilocks   This fun letter poem is written in rhyme and rhythm as an apology to Baby Bear for breaking his chair.  The entire poem uses the same rhyming phoneme.

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Blessing

3 March 2016

  Christian Poetry   This Christian poem is a simple blessing of encouragement acknowledging God’s presence everywhere, and His role as a friend, overseer, a supporter and a guide.     I pray that as you live your life Today and every day You’ll feel our omnipresent Lord, In your own special way:

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