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Last summer some children visited
Largs library for a week to meet the poet Gerry Cambridge. The aim of
their week was to find out about writing poetry using their local
surroundings as inspiration. They visited local rivers, seashore and
other places in North Ayrshire. Please take a look at some of
their poems below.
The Sea’s 4 wishes
My first wish would be that all the kids could play with me.
The second would be that if anyone threw a stone at me
I could throw it at them with a perfect aim.
hen I would wish for my own fish army to annoy all adults.
My final wish would be that children ruled the earth.
THE SEA’S WISHES
S
pecial and clear
E
nemy love to live in me.
A
lmost covers
the world.
S
urfers gliding through.
c
reatures BIG
and small.
h
ow I would like
to see a gold fish alive.
a
ll the way around the 5 continents I soar.
r
ockpools love
animals just as much as I do.
a
round the world
I wait patiently for new animals.
c
rabs, lobsters,
prawns love to live in me.
t
o know what it
would be like to go to school.
e
very one swims
in me.
r
ound it goes in whirlpool.
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Sea Shells on the beach
S hells and sea creatures
H erons and different types of birds
E asy to find on the beach
L ots of different types
L ots of fun to discover
S
hould you
try it!
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My Week
On Monday I had a rest.
Not going out, just doing nothing.
On Tuesday we went out.
Down to the beach to look at rockpools.
On Wednesday we stayed in.
We wrote a poem.
On Thursday we went out again.
We saw prawns, anemones and jellyfish.
On Friday I wrote this poem!
On Saturday I had a rest.
And the last day of the week
I went on holiday.
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The Herons
H
andsome seabird.
E
arly bird catch
the fish
R
aising it’s
graceful wings
O
ver the
lapping sea
N
ervous, jumpy
birds
S
carcely moving,
for fear of being seen
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R
is for realising
creatures in the rockpools.
O
is for obedient creatures
scuttling about.
C
is for crabs in the
rockpools.
K
is for Kilmarnock
bricks
P
is for people down by
the beach.
O
is for oblong shaped
rocks.
O
is for oblong shaped
shells.
L
is for little
creatures.
S
is for sand grains at the
bottom of the rockpool.
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