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    Button Pressing Haiku

    Button Pressing Haiku

    by Myles McLeod 12th July 2018

    Keeping it short Sometimes it’s fun to try and write a really short poem. The Japanese form called ‘Haiku’ is a fun way to try and tell a short story. These haiku use the form of five syllables for the first line, seven syllables for…

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    All, Going Places

    Baby Brother

    by Myles McLeod 29th June 2018

    Baby Brother and Ideas This poem is really about jealousy and having problems dealing with something new. I can’t quite remember where the idea came from. Ideas are like that sometimes. Some of them come from a particular moment and you always remember what inspired…

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    All, Space
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    by Myles McLeod 13th June 2018
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    Uffington

    Uffington

    by Myles McLeod 7th June 2018

    Uffington and other interesting place names Sometimes a place name sounds fun or interesting. Some sound like characters from a book like Somersal Herbert, or Flyford Flavell, or Broughton Hackett. Some sound a little odd like Birdlip or seem a funny name for a place,…

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    All, Going Places
    The Gorm

    The Gorm

    by Myles McLeod 27th May 2018

    The Gorm inside us all Wilm suggested to me that we could do a series of poems about monsters and feelings. I thought this was a great idea. So we’ll be doing one every few weeks. Feeling angry This one is about feeling angry and…

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    All, Monsters
    The Shortest Story

    The Shortest Story

    by Myles McLeod 23rd May 2018
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    I Never Fib

    I Never Fib

    by Myles McLeod 14th May 2018

    Fibbing is Fun Myles writes: This week’s poem is all about fibs, lies, exaggerations and outright whoppers. When I was a child I met another boy on holiday who told me he could throw a cricket ball for over a mile. I considered this for…

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    All, Silly people
    The Cat sat on The Mat

    The Cat Sat on the Mat

    by Myles McLeod 8th May 2018

    The Cat and the Wordplay Myles: ‘The Cat Sat on the Mat’ is a well known phrase. Sometimes it’s used as an example of bad poetry because it has such an obvious rhyme and rhythm. I decided to play around with this phrase and see…

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    All, Animal poems, Nonsense
    The Dog And The Flea

    The Dog and The Flea

    by Myles McLeod 28th April 2018

    The Dog and The Flea Limerick Myles: I wanted to try and write a limerick – that’s a five line poem with a very particular rhythm. I’m not sure where the idea of a dog and a flea came from now. That’s how it is with…

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    All, Animal poems
    Don't judge a spell book by its cover

    Don’t Judge a Spell Book by its Cover

    by Myles McLeod 23rd April 2018

    Which witch is which? Words that sound the same but have different meanings are called homophones. That’s how this poem began. I was keen to write a poem about witches, and then the phrase ‘which witch’ popped into my head. What other homophones can you…

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    All, Magic
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