I have had a busy, but brilliant two days visiting schools in Shropshire helping to promote the wonderful Wenlock Poetry Festival. I am doing a children's show there next weekend launching my new book and first children's collection: My New Teacher Is An Alien (and other little fibs). Ten events including assemblies and workshops in two days reaching over a thousand children promoting poetry and the Festival. Here are a couple of poems inspired by the past two days and I am almost caught up for National Poetry Writing Month.
Keep writing and reciting
Mark x
Absence without a
capital A
Attendance
is important,
especially
to this school.
The
noticeboard is a heavy hint
dominating
the assembly hall,
results
and tables displayed
under
the legend:
A
T T E N D A N C E
A
I M F O R T H E T O P !
The
A and T are outlined in shadows
where
the sun bleached the backing paper,
like
escaped prisoners
stuffing
their bed with pillows.
I
hope this absence is genuine, authorised,
explanatory
notes from their Mum on file
rather
than hanging round McDonalds or
playing
in the seductive spring sunshine.
Abstract
The
primary school students
Had
painted their own art:
Coloured
rectangles, kind of zen.
The
caption said “Mark Rothko”.
So
I gave him
Eight
out of ten.
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