Tamar Class Create Poems using AA Milne’s Daffadowndilly 18 Jun 2014
The children were introduced to personification and used Milne’s Daffadowndilly as inspiration. This is what they created, can you guess what they’re about?
Kian
He sat in a dark corner
His arms lifted with a creek,
and knees bent and pushed on the
pebbled lino and screeched.
He tried to get up, but shook like
the green fresh leaves on an oak tree.
Walked out of the room,
monsterously and his blistered
eyes scanned the room
And he said “I will be back!”
Charlotte
He stared at the wall getting bored,
He wore his blue rain coat,
And smiles at you broadly,
But his friends stares too,
they whisper “cuckoo”
They stare
You stare
You are the pair
He glances at you
He murmurs
“I will help you”
You don’t get it
You ignore it
He stays still
Staring at the wall.
Jemima
He put on his best pair of brown cords,
His green ridged cap was planted firmly on his head
As his firm body stood as tall as a statue,
this is what he said
“I am as strong as a rock and it would take an axe to defeat me”
Charley
She stalks the sun at sunset
She smiles here and there
She stares at her rivals entering her olland
And she asks where they’re from, but no one really cards.
She sails away to beat the suns raise
She murmurs to her family “I will be here again.”
She travels everyday
And whistles in wind
She looks every direction
And dances every way
Her skirt waves in the sea breeze
Her smile makes a fabulous welcome
She says to her rivals “Put your mind at ease.”
Charlotte T
She has the power of Cornwall as she turns her head in the sunshine.
She flickers her eyes coloured black and white
She yells “Come on, we have to protect our land, come on Cornwall
Tilly
His colossal branches touching the sky,
Stretching his leaves way up high,
His clenched face absorbing the sun,
Threatening off everyone,
His bulky body standing bright,
Yelling all through the night
“I own this forest.”
Ben
Her fluffy white hair covering her blue head
Her little golden ear ring which she moved from ear to ear,
When she heard the plane turn and steer
Her hair turned black as she brought out a tear.
Daisy
She opened her mouth and the story began
Her patterned silk like clothing shone in the light of the day.
And you can read her hair like you can read her mind
She shouts out all the phrases of the world.
She always got something to say to you.
“Cinders, you’ve got to be back by 12.00”
Who did you think was, a fairy god mother?
….Of course, she’s not a fairy, she’s a book.
Hollie
Every day he gels his hair
His mohican sticking everywhere
He sits and watches the T.V,
Yelling at the referee.
He screams and cheers,
Deafening everyone’s ears,
He is a rowdy guy to know.
He adores his football so,
He wears his yellow football kit
And in the fruit bowl he does sit.
He climbs upon the window sill,
And yells: “Good luck to Brazil.”
Jamie M
Rose drives very fast
She talks to only us,
She pulls us up the hills
She winks her eyelashes to us
Her feet walks to different places
She flicks her hands and flicks her hair
Her doors are always open to us.
Chelsea
His nostrils shadow conquering the colossal city,
His menacing evil eyes terrifies me!
The city shivers at his bellowing scream
His revolting smile’s certainly not a dream.
Everything about him is a nightmare…..
As he raised his vile head,
He shouted, ” I am the leader of this land!”
Ellie
As I sit here all dull against other luminous colours
I suddenly see my pony coming out of her stall
I try to smile but my mouth is clued with saddle soap,
My pony’s owner walks in and picks me and my friends bridle up.
It is a relief to come out of that dusty room
With me all tightened up, I set off for the ride
All I can say is “This may be my last as I am all rotten and old, but the thing that stays strong is my strirrups which glow gold.”
