Laptop People

Twas indeed a crazy mad week last week. 750 miles, 5 schools, 23 hours of performances to around 1200 people!! I still had time to write a quick poem though....

Laptop People

You see them in the park
you see them in the street
you see them in the cafe
when they get something to eat
drink and a doughnut, coffee and a bap
the laptop people
tap tap tap

Download a document
download a map
the laptop people
tap tap tap

You see them in the supermarket
you see them on the bus
they never ever stop
cos they're always in a rush
way too busy to take a quick nap
the laptop people
tap tap tap

They'll never escape
the computor trap
the laptop people
tap tap tap

Toast On Beans

Toast On Beans

Day one made I some toast on beans
made I them tea my for
tea had I all own my on
which means beans me for more!!

My friend round came house to my
just to hello say
she had a little pie of piece
and we'll tomorrow play

Words these are up all jumbled
the order wrong seems all
glad i'm this poem is too long not
its just a nice one small!!

WORDSURFING - Eyes and Teeth

The word DAISY comes from the saying the days eye. Being a flower the daisy closes up at night and then opens up in the morning when the sun comes out. The old people from years ago thought that when it opened up it looked like an eye, an eye that signalled the start of a new day. That's how we get the days eye/daisy!! Flowertastic or what!!!

Speaking of flowers and stuff, the DANDELION gets its name from the french meaning dent de lion which means lions teeth. Over the years this got changed to dandy lion then to dandelion. Cool eh!!

By the way, a dandelion is not a weed, a weed is just a flower in the wrong place so in a cabbage patch a rose would be a weed!! Its just how you look at tings innit!!

Rivet The Robot - Part 1 - The Beginning

It was the first day of half term today so i did the only thing i could do...i started making a robot on the kitchen table. To be honest i haven't really got a kitchen table but that's a detail you don't need to know..although you know it now....anyway, the robot thing...my mate Andrew the Robot Man Amos wanted a robot so i said I'd make one. Its not a real metal one that moves like Robocop and all that but a cardboard box kind of model one with papier mache ( is that how you spell that?) and glue and bits of sticky tape, y'know the kind of robot you make at school when you're 7 and its indoor play cos its raining outside.
The robot is going to be called Rivet and the plan is to make him/her this week ( i think its a him, i think a girl robots wouldn't be called Rivet, she'd be Rivetta) and when i do I'll take a photo and put it on here and the next thing i'll do then is, well that's obvious, the next thing I'll do is build an army of robots and take over the entire world...then I'll be able to get a REAL kitchen table....

Sunlight On Snow

I was up in Newcastle libraries yesterday and as the train went up through North Yorks the sun came out and lit up all the snow that was on the ground. It was beautiful and i thought that i'd better do something so i did this....

Sunlight On Snow

Its just like
some Hollywood special FX
when sunlight shines on snow
the snowflakes dazzle
alive with light
that makes them glitter and glow

The whole world becomes a diamond
as it puts on a show
this miracle happens everytime
i see sunlight on snow

Read Yourself Away

Sometimes i forget just how many poems i have written. There are poems that i read out in schools and then there are othes that just wait in the book until i happen to come across them. Well i was in Chester library on saturday performing some poems when Carol, the library lady asked if i could write a song about the library. I started writing some words and it rang a bell in my head. I thought i have done something like this before. I wrote a poem a while ago called Read Yourself Away and i dug it out and put it to music. Sometimes its a good thing to go back and have a look at some old poems that you have written and give them a chance!!

Click the play button to hear the song I hope you enjoy it!!

Read Yourself Away

In the library you'e never alone
with a world of books to call your own

Monsters, pirates, wizards and elves
are waiting for you on the shelves

Books with maps, books with cars
books with horses, books with stars

Books are just like little boats
flowing with the tide

they'll open up a brand new world
and take you on a ride

If you've never been on one
why not start today?

Sail into a sea of books
and read yourself away