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This was written by my 10 year old daughter as a Creative Writing assignment for School. The theme was "The funny side of life". The school has since entered this poem into an International Poetry competition organised by COBIS (Council of British International Schools)
FUNNY THINGS
Strange things happen in life sometimes,
Like animals driving cars and all in lines.
Then today on the way to school,
A baboon stole my lunch and that’s not cool!
An aardvark on a skateboard zoomed past me,
I chased him down towards the sea.
“Slow down, slow down!” I shouted after him,
And then I met a fish who could not swim.
My world is upside down and spinning around,
My feet are in the sky and my head is in the ground.
I see all these things that are not as they seem
And then I wake up and it was all just a dream.
FUNNY THINGS
Strange things happen in life sometimes,
Like animals driving cars and all in lines.
Then today on the way to school,
A baboon stole my lunch and that’s not cool!
An aardvark on a skateboard zoomed past me,
I chased him down towards the sea.
“Slow down, slow down!” I shouted after him,
And then I met a fish who could not swim.
My world is upside down and spinning around,
My feet are in the sky and my head is in the ground.
I see all these things that are not as they seem
And then I wake up and it was all just a dream.
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I have mixed feeling about the buttons. Why? Because when stories and poems where together poems would come in more and I would loss track of the sorties. So now they are separated I can keep track again. But at the same time I don't like the separation because I forget to look at the poem button. I don't know maybe I need to get use to it or something.
Anyways did that make sense?
Don't worry, it made sense.
To me, though, it seems redundant to have the second button for poetry. Because right there, in the side bar, is the button for poetry, and it takes you to the same place the other button does. Except the poems are then excluded by default from the front page, because the stories button is the default front page.
We, the active members, are going to catch on, but what about the people who cruise the web just to read, and stumble upon the site? Maybe they will completely miss the new poems because they won't venture beyond the default front page. And maybe some of them will have brains addled by being sick for five days like me, and not catch on that there is a second front page.
I know what you mean about the combined stories & poems, and maybe losing track of the stories. But personally, I've always scrolled down the front page to see at a glance what the new texts are, who from, categories, length, etc, before opening any of them. That way I get a handle on the number of new works and can juggle my reading time.
At the risk of repeating myself, it just seems unfair to the poets to be bumped aside of the default front page exposure, and to me that is wrong.
I agree with you. It isn't fair to the poets, plus there are far more members that are interested in poems.
Quote by gypsyQuote by Entangled_Fate
I have mixed feeling about the buttons. Why? Because when stories and poems where together poems would come in more and I would loss track of the sorties. So now they are separated I can keep track again. But at the same time I don't like the separation because I forget to look at the poem button. I don't know maybe I need to get use to it or something.
Anyways did that make sense?
Don't worry, it made sense.
To me, though, it seems redundant to have the second button for poetry. Because right there, in the side bar, is the button for poetry, and it takes you to the same place the other button does. Except the poems are then excluded by default from the front page, because the stories button is the default front page.
We, the active members, are going to catch on, but what about the people who cruise the web just to read, and stumble upon the site? Maybe they will completely miss the new poems because they won't venture beyond the default front page. And maybe some of them will have brains addled by being sick for five days like me, and not catch on that there is a second front page.
I know what you mean about the combined stories & poems, and maybe losing track of the stories. But personally, I've always scrolled down the front page to see at a glance what the new texts are, who from, categories, length, etc, before opening any of them. That way I get a handle on the number of new works and can juggle my reading time.
At the risk of repeating myself, it just seems unfair to the poets to be bumped aside of the default front page exposure, and to me that is wrong.
I agree with you. Poems are important too.