Yoga for Insects
Yoga for Insects It can be fun to smash two worlds together. The world of yoga and fitness has its own words, thoughts and feelings associated with it. The world of insects has its own behaviours, types of creature and life cycles. What happens when…
The Cat Sat on the Mat
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…
The Dog and The Flea
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…
Telepigeon
What is a Telepigeon? My niece has invented a few of her own wonderful words. One of them is her version of the word Television. She calls it a Telepigeon! I loved the word. It created a really interesting visual image in my head. So,…
Animal Playlists
ANIMAL PLAYLISTS This poem exists thanks to my daughter. At the moment she can’t quite pronounce the word music like ‘m-you-sik’. Instead she says ‘mooo-sik’. The moo sound made me think of cows! All I had to do then was work out what kind of…
Nasty Crusties
CRUSTACEANS Myles writes: Crustaceans are related to insects and spiders, but are their own separate group. Because unlike insects and spiders they live underwater. They include things like crabs, lobsters and prawns. They are an extremely interesting group of animals and different kinds are found…
Ms Dinosaur
Dinosaurs for everyone I have a three year old daughter. One of the things you realise when you become a parent is how many things are ‘supposed to be’ for boys and girls. Boys are supposed to like cars and trucks and blue. Girls are…
Baby Shark
BABY SHARK Myles writes: This poem was important for me, because it was the start of something. After I wrote it, I decided I needed to write more poems. The poem itself was inspired by a one of my favourites from my own childhood. That…
Roar, roar, T. rex
TYRANNOSAURUS REX Tyrannosaurs rex is probably the most famous of all dinosaurs. It was large, fast and liked eating meat. It belonged to a group of dinosaurs called the theropods (which means beast-footed). MODERN DINOSAURS We often say the dinosaurs died out but that’s not…
Grundlepap and Spangledoo
BIRTH OF THE POETRY PICTURE CLUB This comic is where the Poetry Picture Club all started. Wilm was interested in entering a competition for illustrated poems and asked me (Myles) if I had anything. I wrote this poem especially. Unfortunately the competition was looking for…