Special Poem For Barnes Farm Infant School, Chelmsford

My website states that, if a school books me to run a day on a specific theme, then I will write that school a special poem on that theme. Next week I am visiting Barnes Farm Infant School in Chelmsford, Essex, whose Literacy Week focuses on the theme of 'jungle'. Behold, then, this poem, written especially for them.

My Neighbour Owns a Lion

My neighbour owns a lion

It lives out in his shed

I sometimes hear it roaring

When I’m lying in my bed

 

It roams among the flowers

It paces up and down

My neighbour’s lion surely is

The only one in town

 

Sometimes he plays fetch with it

But not with sticks, with logs

He doesn’t feed it from a tin

He feeds it cats and dogs

 

The lion’s always hungry

It prowls in search of prey

In fact my neighbour’s lion

Caught a burglar yesterday

 

My neighbour owns a lion

It’s ready to attack

But my ball is in his garden –

Will you help me get it back?