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Kathy Brown


Last Updated: 4/18/2009

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Gender: Female
Status: Married
Age: 42
Sign: Aquarius

Country: UK
Signup Date: 2/10/2007
Sunday, March 18, 2007 

Current mood:replete
Category: Writing and Poetry
OK, I have two daughters, and the youngest is 9, well, 10 in a few weeks' time. She constantly delights me with her creative writing - Geoff and I often find little scribblings and drawings around the house, and on our laptops. Sometimes stories or plays that she has started to write. She seems to have adopted the very smallest room of our house as her own - `Lucy's Loo' - and this is often the scene for us to stumble across these treasures trove, on post-its, in notebooks, scraps of paper......

So...  I am taking the liberty of posting a couple of her poems from her latest 'literacy' workbook from school on here. I thought they were astonishing, and so did her teacher - he says it is attributable to the number and variety of books that she reads. The first is based on an exercise often set for children in literacy - they are to base it on Kit Wright's `The Magic Box' - so you will spot a lot of similarities there.... but notwithstanding that -  what a great imagination!

1) Poem - "The magic box"

I will put in my box

a muted cry on a summer's night,
a mermaid with legs,
a tired teacher training tortoises.

I will put in my box

a world owned by rabbits,
a swish of blue wind pulling me into the air,
a zooming zebra racing a slow leopard.

I will put in my box

one last wish waiting to be wasted,
the first laugh to be heard,
the first tooth of a baby girl.

I will put in my box

a 61st minute of an hour and a pink star,
a wise man with a knife,
and a knight with a present.

My box is fashioned from silver tinsel,
with trees on the lid and butterflies in the corners.
Its hinges are toe joints of lizards.

I will run in my box,
farther than ever before,
I will run to Australia
and arrive to the Sydney Opera House
and listen to my favourite music: Phantom of the Opera.


2) Poem - "Passion"

Passion is rose pink,
It smells like lavender,
It tastes like honey,
Passion sounds like angels singing in the morning,
It feels like the smoothest silk in the world
Passion lives deep within your heart.

Awww.... :-)

And while on the subject of gifted children... I have to put in a word for the children who are the talent behind 'Trollmates'. In particular the golden voice of Chloe Howells, 13, from Maidenhead in the UK, and the incredible songwriting and singing talent of Raquel Warchol, a Canadian 13-year-old, whose own track, 'Time after Time' features on the Trollmates' inaugural album - which I think is called 'Dreamin'. Now I like music of all kinds - and I have to say it is no cringe whatsoever when my ipod shuffles round to one of the Trollmates' songs, love 'em!
Currently listening:
The Black Parade
By My Chemical Romance
Release date: 24 October, 2006
10:41 PM
 
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