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After many of you lovely people told me how you say “garage” in a poll, I concluded that it has too many pronunciations to work in a rhyming poem.
Which meant, of course, that I had to try.
Word that’s making me smile today: scunnered. It’s a Scottish word that means completely fed up with a person or situation. If you’re scunnered, your last nerve is vibrating with irritation.
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autumn's last blast
blaze of colour paints the sky
bittersweet farewell
#HaikuSaturday
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#HaikuSaturday #haiku
rain strikes the window--
red maple leaves blur
to watercolors
Please add a version if you feel like it. If you want your version posted with the other versions please include the hashtag #VersionsHaikuSaturday.
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More spooky poems by top children's poets. brian-moses.blogspot.com/202… @JulieAnnaPoetry @JSellarsLies @JohnHRice @dragontripper @PhilipArdagh @AttieLime @mooseandmouse @JThomasABC @kathrynbeevor @lozzawriting @Ciara_OConnor_ #halloween2026
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A mischief of mice, a flamboyance of flamingos, a waddle of penguins (or a ‘raft’ if they are in water). What is your favourite collective noun? Feel free to suggest new ones!
Word that’s making me smile today: euneirophrenia. It’s the lingering sensation of peace as you wake from a pleasant dream, which leaves you wishing you could forget about the real world and slip back into the dream.
📷: OKJaguar, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Poetry travels around Rotterdam on garbage trucks:
“You see it as you cycle to work or wait for a lorry to pass. Sometimes you read a line that stays with you for the rest of the day. What started as a quirky idea has become part of our city.”
theguardian.com/world/2026/o…
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To write poetry effectively young poets have to know it well. Immersion in broad spectrum poetry is therefore essential. Help them discover their poet's heart.
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It's publication day for Why No Rhino? 🦏🎉
A big thank you to @NFPublishingUK for bringing this book into the world and to Tom Jellett (all the way down under) for the wonderful illustrations. His book titles throughout are 👌🏻
I'm going to run a poetry club at my neighbourhood elementary school this year. This prompt has me itching to put pencil to paper with the kids!
Daily poetry prompt: What can you see inside a marble?
A space genie locked in glass.
Coke bubbles colliding with one another.
A magical merboat sailing the silent ocean...
Even the most reluctant writers can achieve success with this idea. brian-moses.blogspot.com/201… @PieCorbett
Word that’s making me smile today: limn. Limners illuminated medieval manuscripts with gold and silver. Over time, limn came to mean to vividly portray something, such as a musician limning an emotion or a writer limning a character.
Word that’s making me smile today: ochibabune. It’s a Japanese term that means “fallen leaf boat.” In Japan, an autumn leaf drifting on water is a poignant metaphor for vulnerability and impermanence.
📷: William Warby, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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Poem 25 takes an abstract notion and makes it concrete. Just for the sheer thrill of creating ideas and testing them.
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Thank you to School Reading List for featuring Poems on Toast on their list of poetry books for 7-11 year-olds - "...an outstanding collection that moves effortlessly between funny, thoughtful and contemplative moments. It's perfect to read or discuss in KS2 classrooms.". 🧡
Word that’s making me smile today: opificer. It’s a lost term for a person who creates things. It comes from the Latin word opus, which means the product of labour or literally “work of art.”
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Daily poetry prompt: What if you could bring back scenery from your holiday?
Swap your city streets
for mountain peaks,
or streams of traffic
for a holiday beach?
Maybe roll up rivers
and run them past your door....
More here: brian-moses.blogspot.com/202… @PieCorbett
