Kitty Says!
Kitty:
They’ve got you long necked lambkins,
You’re properly boxed in, hey!
Don’t you wish you could be me,
No fences bar my way!
Llamas:
As you can see, we have been shorn,
We feel so light and free!
When do you get clipped and snipped?
Kitty:
I DON’T! They let me be!
JR Poulter
Moon Zoom
JR Poulter
Once Upon a Time by J.R.Poulter
Once upon a long ago
In the distant mists of time
There was a prince who had to make
A poesy all in rhyme.
He had to weave a wondrous tale
For his intended bride,
That swept the legends of the land
The myths from far and wide
Into one vast saga,
A tome to end all tomes!
He set out to collect the tales,
It took him far from home.
The prince crossed many deserts,
He climbed too many hills,
He walked through sun and snow and sleet.
He suffered many ills!
At last, he had his great big book!
At last, he’d wed his bride!
But as he neared the castle,
He heard a mournful sigh…
What stood there was a ruin,
Wind moaned through empty halls.
Of all the pomp and pageantry,
Nothing was left at all…
Amidst a drape of spider webs
Within the central court,
He found a tomb whose statuary
Had been most marvelous wrought.
There was his bride, robed as a queen,
Her king was by her side.
A scroll lay open on her lap
Of fictions, fables, lies…
The prince stood still,
As turned to stone.
The ancient beams
Above him groaned.
A crack, a scream,
He was no more.
The Tome of Tales
Lay on the floor.
The wind tore at the pages,
Tossing them far away.
All that was left, the marble tomb
And what it had to say,
JR Poulter
Lost Generation by J.R.Poulter, image by Dandi Palmer
Australian Children’s Poetry 