Autumn term.  A time for new beginnings, first time at school, new classes.  New school uniforms, or freshly pressed ones.  Holiday hair cut and shiny.

In all the excitement, the teddy of one new beginner is temporarily forgotten.......

 

 

Back to School 

I’m a teddy, just dropped here

As school begins another year.

 

I watch the children, run and meet

In the playground, near the street.

 

So many children, having fun

Smiling, chatting, everyone.

 

I stand and tiptoe, creep, creep, creep

And through the window take a peep.

 

I watch the children, through the day.

I hear them laugh and see them play.

 

But when at last, the day is done

and children start their homeward run

 

I see the child who loves me best.

I pick her out from all the rest.

 

She lifts me up, so I can see

The picture she has drawn of

ME! 

©Brenda Williams

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 The magical childhood world of summer- captured in a seaside poem.

 

 

The Seaside

 

Waves from the sea 

Splash on my toes, 

Swirl round my knees 

And tickle my nose. 

 

Sand from the beach  

Slips through my toes, 

Sticks to my knees  

And hides in my clothes. 

 

© Brenda Williams

July......The lavender in my garden is looking lovely, and smells wonderful.....  So here is a kenning about it......

L A V E N D E R 

 

Mood enhancer

Purple dancer

Scene stealer

Edge feeler

Colour namer

Heart inflamer

Hedge maker

Sun taker

Eye catcher

Garden patcher.

Sense enriching.   Quite bewitching.

Aromatic.  So dramatic.

Sleep inducer

Stress reducer

Sachet filler

Headache killer.

Bee seducer. Oil producer.

Herbaceous vagrant.

Audacious. 

Fragrant.

Pink or white a lovely sight!

But blue

 is

For a love

 That's true.

 

 

           ©Brenda Williams

Midsummer Night

 

Here is a poem to celebrate Midsummer Night.

 

 

 

 

They are selling Moonbeams in the Market Place

They’re selling moonbeams in the market place

And stardust in the stores.

There are snowflakes floating on the sea

And moon dust on the shores.

 

There’s a rainbow on the milky way

And it’s raining rose-bud rain.

There are fairies dancing on the green

And angels down the lane. 

 

                             They’re selling moonbeams in the market place

And diamonds there are free.

There are dragons waltzing in the fields

And leprechauns to see. 

 

                                   There are unicorns prancing in the hills

And elves and goblins too.

There are silver bells and cockle shells

And cows in shades of blue.

 

For tonight it is mid-summer

A night of magic dreams.

Tonight it is mid-summer

When nothing’s as it seems.

 

© Brenda Williams

World Environment Day

A recent scene on television, of elephant tusks being burned, brought to mind these two poems of mine.   With World Environment Day approaching on 5th June 2016.  It seems appropriate to post them on my blog.

               Images of elephants 

Silent elephants

In the dusty Savannah

Weeping together

For the loss of their leader

Killed for her ivory tusks

…………………………….

 

Elephants use tusks

For lifting heavy objects,

Digging for water

And scratching for minerals

Ivory hunters sell them.

 

©Brenda Williams

 

 

May Day Festival

May Day was rather a damp squib for most people, with so much rain.  Here is a shape poem, of how it should be celebrated.

May Day 

Here’s the maypole on the green.  Here’s a happy village scene.

Here are children having fun. Carrying garlands in the sun.

Under, over,

Lift

and

 dip

Round the maypole

dance

 and

skip.

Weave the ribbons

red

and

 green

The prettiest ribbons

I

have

 seen.

Hobby horses

leap

 and

prance.

Jingling bells

as

children

dance.

Morris dancers

beat

and

clap

With wooden sticks

and heels

 that

tap.

 

©Brenda Williams

War Horse

Tonight, 'The Free Spirit Horse Memorial'  is raising funds to create a lasting memorial, acknowledging the

unfaltering service of horses to mankind, at the National Memorial Arboretum, Staffordshire.

 

The event  itself is to  'Celebrate the Horse' at the Defence Medical Services, Whittington, Staffordshire.

 

 During the event, pupils from Broadway Academy Birmingham will be reading my poem 'War Horse'. which can be found on my main website.   See Above. 

 

Wishing them every success.

 

 

 

 

 
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