21 January 2021
Posted by Susmita Bhattacharya
My Family and Other Animals
Today the Junior Writers' Club was buzzing with excitement. We were planning on writing poetry - about our family members! We looked at Jackie Kay's poem, New Baby and the young writers wrote lots of poems about their family members. I loved the ones where they took inspiration from Jackie Kay's poem and imagined themselves as a new baby.
Here are some of their poems. Enjoy!
I am a new baby
My name is Diptanshu Dutt
I am as noisy as a wolf howling
I am as loud as loudspeaker
When I scream, next door rabbit runs away
And their goldfish shivers in fear
I make the windows rattle
And the doors shake
I am so loud I shake them all
Outside everyone complains
The dogs and cats all compete with me
Mr Jones up the street
Says to put tape on my mouth
But I don’t listen
I like being noisy
- By Diptanshu Dutt
A New Baby Poem
I am a new baby
My name is Stuti
I am as noisy as an elephant and
As loud as thunder and lightning
When I scream
Next door’s rabbit
Starts to wriggle and shake
And their goldfish tries to
jump out of the tank in range
I make the windows shake and break
And the door starts to clatter and blatter
I am so loud
I make a bit of a matter
Outside everyone closed their ears
The dogs and cats all started to run
Mrs. Jones up the street says, ‘’Oh! Be quiet. ‘’
But I don’t stop crying
I like being noisy as usual
- Stuti Chauhan
Family poem
My dad is very hard working
He works 10 hours a day
He is busy on calls with other people
My mum is very health conscious
She does exercise everyday
She maintains her diet like an athlete
My cousin is really naughty
He always kicks the ball
Sometimes I wish he was Renaldo
My grandpa is always active
He does thing he should not do
Tomorrow he will do a video call with me
Photo of baby by Diptanshu Dutt
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