Category Archives: Poem of the Day

“Internal Relection” by Julie Cahill

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The kitten looked and saw

his very own reflection
But ’twas not him to others looking
in the cat’s direction
The cat had never seen himself
as no one ever does
and the lion in the mirror
wore the same beige mottled fuzz
He licked his paw
when the kitten licked
he yawned although much wider
and when they both lay down to sleep
they breached the glass divider
When they woke together
at exactly the same moment
they smiled at one another
and roared with quiet contentment

“Imagine it might happen” by Louise McCarthy

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When I grow up I’m going to be an astronaut – it’s true!

I’ll visit all the planets – perhaps you could come too.

We’ll zip around the galaxy and catch a sparkling star.

We’ll send our families postcards to show them where we are.

I drew some plans the other day; I’ve begun to build our spaceship.

Would you like to help me finish it so it’s ready for our space trip?

Haiku by Katherine Gallagher

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so many winners

running

into the wind

 

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Haiku by Vanessa Proctor

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summer twilight

kangaroos boxing

on the golf course

 

“How I was saved from Chocaholism” by JR Poulter

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HOW I WAS SAVED FROM CHOCAHOLISM!

 

Aunty’s got a chocolate box.

She said,”Have one or two.”

I had one wrapped in bright red foil,

And then a flowery blue.

 

I sucked them – oh, so slowly –

They were so VERY nice!

I thought, would Aunty REALLY mind

If I had a couple – twice?

 

They were the most delicious things

That I had EVER had!

Surely, if I had – just – two more

Aunt could not call me bad?

 

Oh, SCRUMPTIOUS!  YUMPTIOUS! There were more

That I just HAD to taste!

Why – if I left them sitting there

They MUST all go to waste!

 

The box was looking emptyish.

The last ones left looked lonely.

I thought that it would be QUITE wrong

To leave a couple only!

 

And so I ate the last ones too,

But, very strange to tell, 

They didn’t taste just quite so good,

And – I didn’t feel so well …

 

My tummy looked about to pop!

My throat felt – kind of queer…

My tummy started woooobelling –

I held onto the chair!

 

Then as I looked at the chocolate box

And wondered would I be whacked,

I remembered every gluttinous glob

And the box got its contents back -!!

 

BLARRRRUGH!

 

Now I wont touch a chocolate,

Not a bar, a block, a bite!

I will not even look at it!

Well, at least I wont – tonight…

                                  

“The Seahorse and the Mermaid” by Madonna George

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The Seahorse and the Mermaid

 

The seahorse and the mermaid went  

up to the water’s edge  one day

To glimpse at the world above-

Together they winked and leapt out of the water and to golden sands they played.

They strolled in the shine of the sun, and warmed their bodies and giggled some more.

For their’s was an adventure that day

An odyssey different to the sea.

 

The shells they found were presents for Neptune and all the seahorses galore

that fretted and cried for seahorse’s absence.

For they were creatures of the sea

A family yet unamed by sciences and formulas

 

The mermaid she dipped her sunbronzed body

back into the sea and sweetly murmured to the seahorse

Wait for me!

“Me and Captain Cook” by Ron Marsh

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ME AND CAPTAIN COOK

 

Captain Cook, he wrote a book,

He was extremely clever,

He wrote of his trip round the world ,

In the barque “Endeavour”.

 

I watched him sailing past one morn,

I waved, he did not see me.

It was a pity for me and Cook,

For I’d be in his story book.

 

I guess I wasn’t meant for fame,

And also not for history,

And no one ever heard my name,

I’ll always be a mystery.

 

“Dolls” by Ron Marsh

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DOLLS

 

I have a baby sister,

I often think she’s cute,

The way she smiles and gurgles,

And bares her one front tooth.

 

One day she will grow up like me,

And I am nearly eight,

Then she and I can play with dolls.

We’ll  take them out the gate.

 

We’ll push our strollers up and down

And we’ll go parading,

Just like little mothers,

With babies, promenading

“Sun-Star Far” by Celia Berrell

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Sun-Star Far

(distance matters) 

 

Our Solar Sun’s diameter’s 

four hundred times as wide as Moon’s. 

Its distance from the Earth’s about 

four hundred times as far. 

 

So when we look up in the sky 

at night-time then again at noon 

the Moon appears exactly as 

the same size as our star. 

 

Although our Sun-star’s really huge 

compared to Moon’s small sphere 

it’s far enough away from us 

to look the same down here!

 

“Rainstorm” by Toni Newell

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Rain Storm

 

The heavens opened,

And down it poured,

It was so loud,

It almost roared.

Big droplets of rain,

Bounced off the street,

Into the gutter,

And onto concrete.

It pelted the cars,

Watered the lawn,

Battered the gardens,

An almighty storm.

When it was over,

The rain having ceased,

There were puddles of water,

As deep as my feet