Category Archives: Animals
National Poetry Day Message Poem by Charlie Williams
Liz Brownlee ♦ October 6, 2016 ♦ Leave a comment
Dear rhino . I’m so sorry you’re dying, and I know some of us are trying, you get shot for your horns, but you are such a fighter, with your brown leather skin and your big, floppy tail, you should live to fight, and be king of the world. We shouldn’t be king over you. …
National Poetry Day Message Poem by Jack Tucker
Liz Brownlee ♦ October 6, 2016 ♦ Leave a comment
The Message from a Whale . Dear World, This is my story. My pod of ten, playing around eating anything near us. Then there was trouble, our number decreased. . Ten left, nine eight . the boats came, whizzing over us. Harpoons hit the water took my mum, blood spilling everywhere . Seven Six Five …
National Poetry Day Message Poem by Ann-Marie Coates, Coastlands School
Liz Brownlee ♦ October 6, 2016 ♦ Leave a comment
Dear Horse, . Galloping happily in the meadow, Eating the sweet grass, Frolicking with friends. I like the way that You flick your misty mane. I love the noise When you neigh. . © Ann-Marie Coates, aged 10, Coastlands School, Pembrokeshire, Wales
National Poetry Day Message Poem by Izzy Scale, Coastlands School
Liz Brownlee ♦ October 6, 2016 ♦ Leave a comment
Dear Pig . Your pink twisted tail, Curly like a quaver. I love the way You play In the murky mud, Like a rollicking rhino. . But I am ever so sorry That I eat you: Sizzling sausages, Beautiful bacon. . © Izzy Scale, aged 10, Coastlands School, Pembrokeshire, Wales
National Poetry Day Message Poem by Ethan Davies, Coastlands School
Liz Brownlee ♦ October 6, 2016 ♦ Leave a comment
The Flower Follower . Dear Flower, . Please can I steal your pollen? I need it! We need that delicious dust So our hives can fill with honey. . Humans love honey. Sometimes they take care of you – Give you water, Put you in sunny places, Making you grow. . Please save our kind, …
National Poetry Day Message Poem by Maddie Beal, Coastlands School
Liz Brownlee ♦ October 6, 2016 ♦ Leave a comment
Dear Field Mouse, I love your hollow hideout, Storing corn all day. But when the freezing fall comes They will take the food away. . But, my dear friend Field Mouse, I do have to say, “It was I, I was the one Who chopped your tail away!” . © Maddie Beal, aged 9, Coastlands …
Message to a Murrelet – National Poetry Day Message Poem, Liz Brownlee
Liz Brownlee ♦ October 6, 2016 ♦ Leave a comment
Message to a Baby Murrelet . Baby murrelet how will you fare in the wind and sun on the ocean there, . leaving your nest to jump in the surf just one day after your egg-hatched birth? . I follow my parents who call out to me as they ride the swell on the vast, …
Dear Ant – National Poetry Day Message Poem by me!
Liz Brownlee ♦ October 6, 2016 ♦ Leave a comment
Dear Ant . Ant in your tiny, shiny coat maybe as one – insignific-ant . but gleaming, teeming, nests per acre you weigh more than all attend-ant . more than the herds of wildebeest zebra, lion, cheetah, hippo, rhino – antelope, eleph-ant . toiling, turning soil, seed distributing, earth fertilising, diversifying, decomposing, providing food to …
National Poetry Day Message Poem by Tim Burroughs
Liz Brownlee ♦ October 6, 2016 ♦ Leave a comment
utopia . open eyes warm heart soft touch slow kiss . safe house fresh grass clean air clear sea . positive yes strong no communication always violence never . rhinos with horns orangutans in trees tigers in sanctuary buzzing bees . even heartbeat steady gaze deep breaths no disease . seas falling ice forming cyclones …
National Poetry Day Message Poem by Mimi Blockley, Ardingly College Prep.
Liz Brownlee ♦ October 6, 2016 ♦ Leave a comment
A message from an elephant . To the humans that destroyed me, Here I am in a cage With all these children Watching me. . Once I was in the wild once upon a time I could Stand by my mother knowing I was safe But I was wrong. . You took my tusks you …
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