On mice
Mice are small.
The chocolate ones are often white.
The ones in other colours
may not be chocolate.
So don’t eat them.
Unless you’re an Ancient Roman.
Which is unlikely.
There are harvest mice.
They help bring the corn in.
I think there are door mice.
If I said there were window mice
you’d probably see through the joke.
Jerry is the mouse in Tom and Jerry.
Your cousin Jerry is probably not a mouse.
Mice don’t live in hice.
Mice are small.
Originally published by Tyger Tyger
Chocolate
I like hot chocolate.
It’s really, really yum.
I like it when it cools down
so it doesn’t hurt my tum.
Mmm.
Perhaps it’s cold chocolate I like.
Originally published on The Dirigible Balloon
World Muck Day
Today is a very special day.
Muck and muckiness will be celebrated
in schools and homes and libraries
in countries across the world.
Muck will be delivered to classrooms
along with special muck vouchers
that children can exchange
for dirt, mud and filth.
Teachers will bring muck into school
and all will dress up as mucky characters
like The Paper Bag Princess,
Stig of the Dump or Harry the Dirty Dog.
Parents will be in a last-minute rush
to find enough muck in the mucky supermarkets
to smear all over their mucky children
before combing their mucky hair and taking them to mucky school.
Muckshelves and muckcases will groan
under the weight of new muck
and all will be excited to find out about
the Muck of the Week.
It’s not just a day for muckworms.
All children will design muck covers and write muck reviews.
At the end of the day we will all go home
and cuddle up with our favourite muck.
Happy World Muck Day!
Originally published by Dirigible Balloon - Poetry for Children