Primary school poetry all up in this thread
'Red', age 11
Hissing and crackling in the air,
Burning brighter than the sun.
Onto the raw meat it will stare,
Until this fire’s job is done.
Benches full of people glowing deep red,
Eating the meat the fire had cooked.
On the grass playing children tread,
Lit when out the fire looked.
But now it glimmered among the coals,
Little heat being produced at all.
No more were sausages placed in rolls,
Leaving were both the young and tall.
So knowing its days had come to an end,
The fire gave up making heat.
Then as a final goodbye to send,
It flickered and died behind a house on a street.
'Dr. Barnardo's Rescue' (Victorian charity founder), age 12
A lonely boy on the streets is I,
No money has I to buy food.
I sleep on piles of leaves on the ground,
To me people are so very rude.
Then a middle class man comes up to me,
He’s not like the others for sure.
He offers me home and a safe place to sleep,
Now I feel loved once more.
It’s a lot better now that I’m in a home,
With other boys like me.
I’m able to sleep a lot better now,
And I can eat and drink freely.
I’m much better off than I was before,
But there are others who will hopefully be
Taken into Dr. Barnado’s homes,
And loved just as much as me.
I wish I had more of the poems and stories I wrote back then. I lost any aptitude for creative writing when I went to secondary school.