poems we might have written as children
 

concorde

i saw concorde yesterday
it was great
it looks like a swan
i want one

concorde is supersonic
it makes a big boom
it's my favourite aeroplane
even better than a spitfire

one day we were by the thames and we saw concorde
and then right after we saw this car-boat
it looked like a car but they drove it into the water and it floated like a boat
that was two good things in one day

craig johnston age 8
twickenham
london
england

Great idea! Are ones that we actually wrote okay?
 

Love Was Gone
a song by "David Cannon" (a nom-de-plume), age 9


The trees were completely bare of leaves
The houses were vacant and empty
Ashes floated in the breeze
Love was gone
Love was gone

I went to what used to be the town
There were no people there to greet me
Nothing growing in the ground
Love was gone
Love was gone
Love...
Was...
Gone...

[Instrumental interlude, featuring a symphony orchestra performing all these fancy classical sounding passages that I would hum to myself in intricate detail, even including the kettle drums, as I sat in my room imagining the glorious magnificence of it all...]

I went back to my hometown
There were birds and flowers all around me
Ladies dressed up in their gowns
Love was here
Love was here
LOVE...
WAAAAAS...
HEEEEEEEEEERE!!


Here... have a hankie,
DDD :rolleyes:

Apples are round,
And juicy, and red,
I love to eat them
While sitting in bed.

But I don't want to get out of bed anymore.
So what on Earth do I do with the core?

Trish (Patty then)... age?? 7 ??

Fire engine fire engine
Shiny and bright red and loud.
I can always hear you
from way down the road.
Woooo Eeeeee Oooooo
Woooo Eeeeee Oooooo

Someday when i'm tall
dady says I can ride a rele fire truck
but rite now I just play
with a toy one in the hall
Wooo Eeeeee Oooooo
Wooo Eeeeee Oooooo

Jenny wants to play with you
I told her to play with her dolls
Dady said that was mean
girls can be a fireman too
Wooo Eeeeee Oooooo
Wooo Eeeeee Oooooo

Matthew G.
4th grade.
Homeroom #2
Mrs Kolfax s class
Glenwood School

I don't like my mum
I want to carve her up with a saw
I'd use her skin to make a drum
And then I'd put her head in the fridge door.

aww mads! we love you!
:)

brilliant everyone!
;)

why do they have to grow up? :D

I like to play
all day
on the monkey bars.
Round and round
and up and down
if I fall I'll see stars!
I ride my bike
and run into Mike
in front of a great big car!
I hurt my thumb
Mike says I'm dumb
on our knees we have scars.
I skate all the way
to the park and play
and feed the ducks in the pond.
I run up the hill
and down it like Jill
and have lunch at the ore ditch with my Mom.
All night
I sleep tight
Rocky Raccoon keeps me safe.
In the morning we dance
and have tea like in France
and sing and read and play!

Appeared today. I didn't write it (well, just a little of the genetic coding).

Katie
-----

She never bites, never barks,
And just has a great time.
The only money she has
Is a nickel and a dime.

She runs and barks and has a gas with me,
It's so much fun to see.
At dinnertime we have a treat,
Her kibbles and snouts and me with meat.

I love her, even if she has accidents sometimes,
And only has a nickel and a dime.
We invented a language called Haeete,
Of course you know,
She is my dog, Katie!

Rice is nice.
Not like mice
who are not nice
cos they smell


Douglas
aged 6 1/2

My granddad is very strikt
cos we was wotching a tallent show on the telly
and ther was a yung lady singing a song
and she skored seven points out of ten wiv the judgis
and I arsked grandad what he fort about the lady
and he sed he would hav given her one


Douglas

aged 6 1/2

Abracadabra
Dee Zoopidee Zing
You are under my spell
and must do everything I tell


Douglas
aged 6 1/2

Buttons was on my bed
Buttons was on the floor
Buttons played with a ball of thread
then Buttons wanted out the door.

Buttons wanted back in
cuz Buttons was feeling poor
Buttons went for a drive with dad
and lived on a ranch ever more.

In memory of Buttons my cat.

Matthew G.
10 years old.

I know a place where the Creek runs Wild,
where Animals Big, small, Gruff and mild,
Come sip and drink at the Wild Blue Running Creek.

Here comes a deer
with nothing to fear
she's thirsty and takes a sip
instead of a dip.

Then there's a bear
with brown soft hair
He wants to Fish
And he gets his wish.

Everyone's Happy at the cold Wild Creek
It's the best place to go in the whole week!
My pants are soaked up to the knees
and I'm going to stay as Long as I please.




Joan-Carrol, age 7

I think this is the same farm that my dog "Sport" went to. Maybe they were friends.