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13 November 2025

Posted by Kym Devine

Wild Weather

Our Junior Writers blew us away with their enthusiasm and creativity writing their weather themed poems last week. We have been working on Weather/Whether themed poems these last few sessions with a view to submitting poems to the Waltham Forest national and local poetry competition. 


Inspired by a weather forecast flashback to the 1970’s and funny videos of weird and wonderful weather, the group were tasked with writing their own forecasts using a list of weather themed words and three prompts:


‘Yesterday’s weather was …’

‘Today’s weather is …’

‘Tomorrow’s weather will be …’


We loved listening the writers read their poems with tales of wild weather, from Tsunamis in Wales and tornadoes tossing trampolines to ‘passive aggressive rain’ and a weather forecast as 'unpredictable as a train timetable’. 


Below is Isabella’s marvellous ‘Mild Mayhem’ poem:


Local Forecast: Mild Mayhem 

 
The wind got bored and picked a fight,
It flung my fence clear out of sight.
It rattled bins like maracas of doom,
Then howled through my loft like a ghost in a room. 

 
Rain arrived with a passive-aggressive pout,
Leaked through the roof, then shorted the router out.
It soaked my jeans in a tactical strike,
And turned my commute into a swim or a hike. 

 
Snow fell gently, then turned mean,
I slipped on the path like a slapstick scene.
It froze my car with a smug little grin,
Then buried my keys in the recycling bin. 

 
Sun came blazing like it owned the place,
Gave my olive skin a lobster face.
It melted my chocolate, warped my phone,
Then vanished at tea, like a drama-prone clone. 

Hail arrived with a drumline vibe,
Pelting my bins like it held a grudge tribe.
It dented my car with icy flair,
Then bounced off my head like it just didn’t care. 


Tomorrows outlook, the weather ganging up on me


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