More poems

I've just been reading through the poems from tonight's competition. And there are some truly brilliant ones. One of the best, that nearly won the competition (but not quite. Oh, so close!), was written by my zany, wacky, and fantastic nephew Tom. It's about an angry suitcase. Here goes...

The Angry Suitcase

There was once an angry suitcase
Who snapped and snapped all night
People kept on throwing him
Until his face went white
But one day it all began!
And then he had a plan!
An extremely evil plan!
He had himself fitted wheels
And snapped at people's heels
And then he gave brith
And now his son rules the earth!!!!!

Written by Tom



Another fantastic poem (and appropriate for this time of year), was from Maddie, who decided that making up words was her best chance of success. And how close she came to winning the whole thing! Hers is about fireworks...

Firework-alicious

Fireworks are Bangtastic
Vampires think Fangtastic
I think Fandabatastic
What do you think?


Written by Maddie



The entries were awesome! Well done everyone and keep writing. Here's to next year's competition!

St Peters' Poetry Competition

There were some great poems handed in for the competition tonight. I must have had nearly 30 entries, which soundly beat last year's total of about 6. The winners, in the end, were Corey, Ellis and Dylan, who beat off competition from loads of other pupils. Here is their winning entry in full. It's untitled, but I have decided to call it 'Heart of Gold.'

Heart of Gold

I'm rich!
I'm rich!
I've just been told,
I have a heart of gold.
I might sell it,
But I doubt it,
I don't think I'll live without it!


Well done boys. And enjoy all the sweets that you won in the process! I sometimes see poems and think 'I wish I'd written that.' And this is one of them. Really brilliant.

Stanley St Peters' and heads falling off!

Today I had a rather special assembly - at Alice's school! She was sooooo excited that her daddy was going to be reading his poems to everyone at school. And when she walked in, I was full of smiles. As was she. But goodness me, WHAT a lot of children! There must have been 300 filling the hall from front to back. And they were pretty noisy. But it seems they enjoyed it. One child was apparently heard to say to his childminder that he laughed so much his head fell off and he had to get tape to stick it back on again!

And the accompanying evening shopping event went really well. Lots of books were sold, and lots of poems were written. Which leads me on to the next post...