To celebrate National Poetry Day, poems across all the blogs...
The theme for National Poetry Day is actually "Games", this poem is one I wrote for my wee boy Connor a few years ago now...just silly.
“Look!” said Dad
“Everyone come and see,
It’s my fantastic, wonderful
Time machine!”
And it had
Wheels that went whoosh,
And springs that went ping,
Ten levers for pulling
And a bell that went bing.
And a big round blue button
That when pressed it, went pop
And right at the top
Going tick tock
A clock.
“We could go back to last Christmas
And meet old Saint Nick
We can fly on to next Thursday
Come on! Let’s go! Quick!"
So we all jumped in and the clock went
BONG!
And dad said “Oh no!
I’ve set the time wrong.
It’s not going to take us
To meet Santa Claus
We’re going right back to see
Dinosaurs!”
The wheels went whoosh.
The springs went ping.
The lights all went out
We could not see a thing.
And we shuddered
And shoogled.
We went in, out and round.
We wibbled
And wobbled
We went up, under and down.
Then..a big BUMP.
We stopped
With a thump.
All the lights came on again
And a roaring made us
Jump.
Out of the trees came
A big T-Rex!
With sharp shiny teeth
Wearing huge purple specs.
Down from the sky came
A pteranadon!
Flapping his wings
Which had pink mittens on.
Over the hill came
A triceratops!
With big pointy horns
And polkadot socks.
And they all stood around
With their horns, wings and teeth
And dad said “Hello!
Would you all like some sweets?”
We counted out sweeties.
One. Two. Three.
There were some for the dinosaurs
And some left for me.
Then we all said goodbye
To our dinosaur friends.
The clock went BONG
We were off again!
