Primary poetry

My home is now two houses,

Mom's and Dad's.

For me, it's just one.

They help me to be happy in each one.

We are still a family and will always be united.

They make it all special,

They are the tractor of my life,

Something without equal.

It's amazing

Without them I couldn't live.

The truth is

They are my home.

Daniella Velarde Sánchez, age 7

MIT School

Singer-songwriter Peter Edgerton highlighted the “extraordinarily powerful opening line” of this poem, ‘My home is now two houses’: “It sets the scene for a very moving piece. Good pace, well-rounded. Excellent work.”

The truth is the Iron man was excited because he had never seen such a beautiful, delicious scrap yard. There were……..

Metallic, magnetic tractors,

Massive, rusty railway engines,

Sharp, shiny guns,

Broken, old springs,

Circular, smooth buttons,

Big, black cars,

Enormous, thick bedsteads,

Thin, rusty spoons,

Round, bent pans,

Big, long gates.

F. H. O. age 8

Almuñécar International School

Singer-songwriter Peter Edgerton said: “Magnificent imagination seeing the scrap yard ... as a potential feast. Strong, earthy vocabulary evocative of the scene. Very Good.”