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Poems on the make or on the fly by Rachel McAlpine.

Monday, March 9, 2009

Your life

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Your life shines like a lemon in leaves. Your life speaks commandments through stone. Your life stands a sun dial for puzzled souls. Your li...
Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Quite right baby

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Good fairies gather around your name. Our wishes are burdens. Our wishes are gifts. We wish you everything— freckles and fame, rockets and r...
Monday, February 9, 2009

Iceburg Land by Dylan aged 5

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One day ice was falling over the land, One day ice was falling over the land, Over the iceburg land, And in there was an ice crazed man, An ...
Thursday, December 11, 2008

I'm a grandmother too

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I'm a grandmother too (says Ruby). That's my daughter Anastasia. She's old enough, she's grown up. She's got a baby and ...
Monday, December 8, 2008

What to do if you're on fire

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If you catch on fire (says Ruby) you must stop, drop and roll on the ground. You stop your breakfast or whatever you're doing and roll o...
Monday, November 17, 2008

I've voted twice

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I've voted twice (says Ruby). The first time there were two people and I voted for the one in the red top. The second time there were th...
Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Where's the jacket?

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Where's the jacket (says Ruby)? Because it's due to get wet, because it's supposed to get wet. A jacket gets dry but clothes do...

Sore legs

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The more you get sore legs (says Ruby) the more you get energy. But the problem is that if you get really bad walks, you can't walk. You...
Tuesday, October 28, 2008

The person who waves the arm

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The person who waves the arm (says Ruby, washing the maneki-neko) gets to wash the arm. If they be crumb-washed they can be new-all. It mean...
Monday, October 13, 2008

Eyeshadow

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People come to Eyeshadow (says Ruby) to buy invisible monkeys that don't exist. And hopefully someone will buy the bad angry girl-hittin...
Sunday, September 14, 2008

The prescription

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Tell you what, Granny (says Ruby) What say I write you a prescription for some medicine to stop you forgetting your friend is dead. You must...
Wednesday, September 3, 2008

I didn't have someone

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I didn't have someone to play with today (says Ruby). But I was a bit happy because I didn't have to go in and out in and out out an...

Nothing left to learn

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I can't remember what I learned today (says Ruby). I've got nothing left to learn. I haven't learned anything from pieces of pap...
Tuesday, July 15, 2008

This says

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This says (says Ruby) that the Queen of human Wellington has died. That's awful. I'd better ring up the Government. Oh, hi. The Quee...
Wednesday, June 18, 2008

A poor thing

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I'm a poor girl (says Ruby) because I've got a sore throat. Another poor thing is a monarch butterfly lying on the ground with one w...

Dragon

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I'm sorry I didn't bring my new toy, Dragon (says Ruby) but he had a panic attack. He lost his voice and it's far far away in th...
Monday, May 26, 2008

Ruby's rhyming poem

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Dinosaur, dinosaur don't eat me. Eat someone else: I'm Grann-y.

Body language

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If it's very very very hard (says Ruby) to figure yes or no that's your body's way of saying No.
Saturday, May 17, 2008

Here's an ambulance

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Here's an ambulance (says Ruby). Will you fight with them please? They're going to steal my marry dress. Oh, they've wrecked my ...
Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Do you know?

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Do you know (says Ruby) how we stop smelling bad smells? We roll around on the ground like this, and wiggle our hips. See? Do you know how w...
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