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Pie Corbett
Pie Corbett is an English educational trainer, writer, author, anthologiser and poet who has written over two hundred books. He is now best known for creating Talk for Writing which is a teaching programme that supports children as storytellers and writers. He has supported children’s writing and children’s poets as well as the education of primary children for many years. His main collection is called Evidence of Dragons, illustrated by Chris Riddell and Peter Bailey, published by Macmillan Children’s Books.
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Here is one of Pie’s fabulous poems:
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In the Land of Possibility
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In the land of possibility,
there is a swan’s final feather;
a fragment of the moon’s crust;
the final echo of a rainbow’s cry;
the gleam from a conker
when the shell cracks open;
a silence that was trapped after sleep takes over;
the secret of how clouds travel;
the stillness in an opal’s centre;
a spider’s web that has snared
a bee from the hives at the edge of the lake;
a thief’s subtle grin as he sneaks into a house;
the moment when two ideas clash together;
the sudden grating of a car’s brakes
juddering to a terrible halt;
a whip of sea spray gathering
in the wind on an ocean wide;
flames curling their sulphurous tongues;
snowflakes settling on pine trees
and a gobstopper made of honey.
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© Pie Corbett 2017
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