Lego Poem – Poetry Roundabout

Teachers, Young Poets; Lego Poem Challenge

Posted on January 24, 2019January 24, 2019 by Liz Brownlee

Here is my quick spider poem and Lego spider. Send me a Lego animal photo and I might write your animal a poem! If you send me a Lego animal poem you might see it here, too!

Spidery Ways

I’m a red-footed spider

with spidery fangs,

spider means spinner –

from spun silk I hang.

Related to scorpions

I’ve a poisonous bite,

but it’s not true I crawl

into mouths in the night.

Only females spin webs

and lay spiderling eggs,

and I taste and I hear

with the hairs on my legs.

I know that my scuttle

is scary to some

but I run in small bursts

for I’ve only one lung.

I have multiple eyes

but don’t have good sight

my eyes just spot motion

or darkness and light,

but my cousins, the hunters,

when hunting a snack

can see frontwards and sideways

and right round their back.

Despite being poisonous

I’m harmless, it’s true

for my jaws are too tiny

to take bites of you!

Whale Poems Wanted!

Posted on January 4, 2019January 8, 2019 by Liz Brownlee

Here’s my Lego blue whale – please read the information after the poem about the danger they are in. Send me you Lego animal photo and maybe I’ll write a poem about it! Here is my blue whale poem:

Lone Blue Whale

Far out at sea

where waves clash and toss

and the wide sky holds

just one albatross,

where light surrounds

and the winds blow long,

this is where you hear

the lone whale’s song,

horizon to horizon

winding on and on,

the air’s too weak

to carry the sound

of the pulses and cries

in the water around,

the beat of its heart’s song

has oceans to cross,

under a wide sky

and albatross,

and only the lone whale

that swims wild and free

has a love song as large

as the wide green sea.

The Japanese Government has indicated that they are going to allow commercial killing of whales to start again. Many whales are still endangered, and all sea life is battling against plastic in the water.

Fabulous author, poet and animal lover Nicola Davies asks: “Calling all uk children and their teachers. Please send your best whale pictures and poems to The Japanese Embassy to protest against the decision to start hunting whales again”.

If you would like to do this, please tweet, blog and also send the poems to:

Ambassador Koji Tsuri

Embassy of Japan

101-104 Piccadilly

Mayfair

London W1J 7JF

Lego Poem

Lego Poetry Challenge

Posted on December 28, 2018January 4, 2019 by Liz Brownlee

This year I will be making Lego models of animals and writing a poem for them, or adding an already written poem to them.

Send me a picture of your Lego or building block animal and perhaps I’ll show it or write a poem to go with it!

Christmas Robin

The spirit of joy

is a bird,

bright eyes,

star feet,

the colours

of wild things,

free,

its song

the art

of giving,

its red breast

a heart