Today's poet

[Hes]

there's always the poet laurete Carol Ann Duffy...apparently you get loads of free sherry or something with the title!.....

you could be on to something there Freckle! Whisky would be preferable but I could work on it.

[Derby Tup]

Aw, she should be very proud !!! can you also tell her from me that her son has written so many wonderful haiku that he merits a book of his own on the subject!...perhaps illustrated by Hes?

Thanks freckle, that is very kind

You know I was never interested in poetry before but like you and everyone else find this thread fun, friendly and informative

[Antisocial]

Thanks freckle, that is very kind

You know I was never interested in poetry before but like you and everyone else find this thread fun, friendly and informative

I'll soon put a stop to that!

At last a real challenge

[Hes]

you should read the book.

"Half way down the stairs" - which was nicked and put to music by the muppet's is in there, along with this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_Z5L...eature=related

God, I used to be able to recite all of this when I was a kid. I had a load of poetry by AA Milne including one called 'now we are six' I think.

[freckle]

you should read the book.

"Half way down the stairs" - which was nicked and put to music by the muppet's is in there, along with this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_Z5L...eature=related

I think we have the book somewhere in the kids room! i have vague memories of this song and "that" voice from my childhood!

[Hes]

Now We Are Six - A.A. Milne

When I was one
I had just begun
When I was two
I was nearly new
When I was three
I was hardly me
When I was four
I was not much more
When I was five
I was just alive
But now I am six,
I'm as clever as clever;
so I think I'll be six now
for ever and ever

[Hes]

baking baked potatos
takes so much blooming time
they stay all hard for ages
and are very hard to rhyme
i really wish I'd thought this through
and gone for something faster
I'm feeling very hungry
and should have just had pasta

(Pam...eat you heart out Mrs!)

[Antisocial]

Now We Are Six - A.A. Milne

When I was one
I had just begun
When I was two
I was nearly new
When I was three
I was hardly me
When I was four
I was not much more
When I was five
I was just alive
But now I am six,
I'm as clever as clever;
so I think I'll be six now
for ever and ever

and I raise you

Little Boy kneels at the foot of the bed,
Droops on the little hands little gold head.
Hush! Hush! Whisper who dares!
Christopher Robin is saying his prayers.

God bless Mummy. I know that's right.
Wasn't it fun in the bath tonight?
The cold's so cold, and the hot's so hot.
Oh! God bless Daddy - I quite forgot.

If I open my fingers a little bit more,
I can see Nanny's dressing-gown on the door.
It's a beautiful blue, but it hasn't a hood.
Oh! God bless Nanny and make her good.

Mine has a hood, and I lie in bed,
And pull the hood right over my head,
And I shut my eyes, and I curl up small,
And nobody knows that I'm there at all.

Oh! Thank you, God, for a lovely day.
And what was the other I had to say?
I said "Bless Daddy," so what can it be?
Oh! Now I remember it. God bless Me.

Little Boy kneels at the foot of the bed,
Droops on the little hands little gold head.
Hush! Hush! Whisper who dares!
Christopher Robin is saying his prayers

[Hes]

anyone know anything that rhymes with Quorn?

[freckle]

I love that verse Hes, especially as I have my own lttle 6 year old at the minute!...

i have retrieved "now we are six" from the kids bedroom and with it this lovely little poem:

The Mirror

Between the woods the afternoon
Its fallen in a golden swoon,
The sun looks down from quiet skies
To where a quiet water lies,
And silent trees stoop down to the trees.
And there I saw a white swan make
Another white swan in the lake;
And, breast to breast, both motionless,
They waited for the wind's caress. . .
And all the water was at ease.