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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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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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Horse: A Champion in His Field

28 January 2012

This descriptive ‘story’ poem uses rhythm to give emphasis to the subject, and is FULL of figurative language. It includes an enormous amount of alliteration, imagery and metaphors, with a small amount of personification and word play.

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Guessing Game

27 January 2012

How soon can you guess the animal from the clues in this rhyming, descriptive haiku?

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Highlighted Snowdrop Poem (Personification)

27 January 2012

This is a duplication of my Good Morning Little Snowdrop poem, showing all of the personification examples in bold text and the alliteration examples in the refrains underlined.

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Evacuee’s Postcard Home

27 January 2012

This creative shape poem hints at the stiff upper lip attitude, as well as the boy’s eagerness to reassure Mum. It includes lots of emotion, plus creative word play in the address.

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The Life Cycle of a Butterfly

24 January 2012

The Butterfly Life Cycle I wrote this poem especially to help children to learn the facts about the butterfly life cycle, from emerging as a caterpillar right through to metamorphosis into a butterfly. The poem uses lots of alliteration and some metaphors and is particularly good for children to use in sequencing each event, as […]

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Beautiful Butterfly

24 January 2012

This very tiny and simple butterfly poem uses word play (flutter by, butterfly), alliteration (repeating the ‘b’s and the ‘p’s), and is written in the style of a list poem (the repetition of beautiful butterfly). It has a delicacy and gentility like the butterfly it talks about. This is a favourite with very young […]

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