This encouragement poem is purpose written with rhyme and rhythm to be read to children as a performance poem.
Can I ask a little question?
Do you promise you won’t lie?
When you said you couldn’t do it,
Did you every REALLY try?
Did you make a token gesture:
Just a sudden little flurry,
Then give up at the first hurdle
In a tantrum filled with worry?
Are you sure you tried your hardest?
Is it worth another go?
Often when you just relax
It’s easier, you know.
Your favourite footie striker
Wouldn’t keep on getting fitter
If every time he missed a goal
He turned into a quitter.
Your teachers wouldn’t know so much
If they had never tried
To learn by their mistakes, but had
Just hung their heads and cried.
In fact, when I was little
I was a future poet,
And yet as I was growing up
I didn’t even know it!
So what are you, I wonder?
You’re practising to be
A future grown up person.
(But what type?) We’ll wait and see!
But as we’re waiting just be sure
You always try your best.
Then time and opportunity
Will take care of the rest.
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