#Fowc #Homework
The children hate it
loaded with work from teacher
sat by the table
a list of adding up
writing stuff on countries far
and reading practice
Mum and Dad Helping
with the really big questions
Multiplication
Childhood
Slide
Childhood#fowc #slide #childhood
Childhood joy
summed up in a single word.
Something to play with
than swings, see-saws or roundabouts
Ascending to the clouds
with each big step
And then travelling at speed
to your mum and dad below
Recall
Memories, MemorySalford 17th April 2019
#FOWC
It’s the ability
to remember
names and faces and dates
times and events
from a long time away
so memories aren’t lost
of moments from a time
where the best time you had
was splashing your feet in the sea
Time travel
Beach, Growing up, Memories, Photography#Promptuarium #Photo Album
The Sands of time seem to pass
so slowly when you’re young
the cogs in the clock
seem like they don’t even move
And yet, sat with your nephews
on the big comfy sofa
you watch time go back
almost in an instant
Moments of fun
spent as a child
creating lines of sandcastles
on a northern beach
Decorations of seashells
and seaweed – covering the scene
as you and your pals
from down the street – enjoy an icecream
And faces gone – but not forgotten
look as fresh as the day the camera captured
the day little feet took a cautious dip
into northern waters
Challenge 30 – No12
Photography“Plain Background”
Three Bears – having their picture taken….
Nothing of note behind them to distract any viewer from the group
the neutral colour bringing out the yellows reds and browns from the furry three.
Education : A Found Poem
ChildhoodEducation has produced a vast population
They spend twelve months
teaching children to walk and then talk
and the next twelve years
teaching them to sit down and shut up
when all you have to do
is teach them all to read
its a source of amusement and fun
to happy little minds
Source : Trevelyan, Diller, Gilchrist and Plato (Via P. 96 & 97 of QIs Book of Quotations)
Bag O’Sweets
PoetryOpen up your bag and round
a quarter of sweets for half a pound a drumstick lolly that’s hard to beat lemon drops for a special treat chocolate footballs and fizzy drops the magic candy that fizzes and pops cola bottles and sherbet tubes candied shrimps and pineapple cubes Now , don’t eat them all now, they’re a treat, we agree but eat them all and you wont eat the fish and chips for your tea!
Spacekid
Astronomy, Childhood, Growing up, Poetry, Space
Salford, 22nd August 2018
Another piece inspired by the #Promptuarium
Many thought you a funny kid
On most nights they’d see you staring into space
Overlooking the positions of the stars and the zodiac
No other subject interested you more
Destiny ? to be the first man to live – on a base on the moon
Until then – you sit out in the garden – plotting your way there
Satellites floating in zero gravity over your head as you
Track your course with telescope, pencil and paper
Bubble
Acrostic, Poetrybubble rising
up high in the
blue skies, floating and
bobbing about in the air
light as a feather, and bringing a smile to
excitable little faces
Messy
Childhood, Family, Growing up, PoetryIt might look like world war three has arrived in the kitchen
but in reality , a masterpiece has been created
sticky fingers and flour dust on kitchen tops
even more on the cupboard doors and floor
colourful paintwork adorned on the table tops
while the finished article hangs on the refrigerator door
and all created to send out a message
“Happy Mothers Day!”
