Families

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by Sarina Amir aged 10

Families are always there for you,
Especially when you are feeling blue,
Your families always want you to have the best,
They make you feel like you’re more special than the rest.
Families are always very kind,
That is the special quality you must find.
Families are there for you when you are poorly,
That you must have realized by now surely.
Families have always cared,
And there love among yourselves is equally shared xxx.

Wonderful Mother

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by Hans Oppong-adu aged 11

God made a wonderful mother,
A mother who never grows old; he made her smile of the sunshine,
And moulded her heart with pure gold;
In her eyes he placed bright shining stars,
In her cheeks fair roses you see;
God made a wonderful mother,
And he gave that dear mother to me

My Mummy

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by Christian aged 8

I love my mummy
She is so yummy
Her food is so scrummy
Like a big bowl of chocolate fudge
ice cream pie
with toffee sauce
and with chocolate sprinkles.

Do You Love Me?

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by Grace Massembo aged 9

Do you love me?
Or do you not,
You told me once,
But I forgot,
Do you love me?

Home

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by Lauren Koch aged 14

Everybody always says that when they grow up they want a big fancy car,
Or maybe to travel real, real far,
But I don’t won’t those things,
Or a big old fancy ring,
I just want to make you smile,
Or maybe make you laugh for a little while.
I just want to be with you to watch the night end,
Or in the morning each day begin,
Because your love means more to me
Than any of these fancy things.

Being Dumped

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by Evie aged 10

Being dumped is horrible
Even though it gave me time to think
It was about time I did as it got out of hand
Not sure if I should go back to being with him
Getting back together is a hard decision

Do I or don’t I? It’s hard to make the decision
Unhappy when I am with him
Maybe we will be back together
Please is the best thing to say
Every day
Do you want to get back together SAM??

Wonderland

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by Safi Kelsen aged 14

I fell in love and you watched me tumble down
Alice’s treacherous rabbit hole.
I fell blindly for so long, that by the time
I was irrevocably in Wonderland
you were no longer my White Knight.
You were more akin to the Red King of Hearts,
collecting the beating organs of me
and so many others
in order to build a cloudy kingdom
upon the sky blue of our tender, torn arteries.
— as I finished writing this I realised
that cards are red or black,
you were never the hero I thought you were

Mum and Me

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by Kiera Garrett aged 8

My mum
is the best mum on Earth
I would never ask for much
but every mum
will be like my mum

Red

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by Lacey Martin aged 13

Fire, fire burning bright
the deepest sunset in the night
apples, juicy, shiny and sweet
blood spattered on the street
a soft blush on porcelain cheeks
red hot anger, how it shrieks
All this red as red can be,
red as the rose he gave to me
but what does red really mean?
Is it the curtains between each scene?
I don’t know, but one thing’s true,
red’s the heart that means I love you

Love is Hard

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by Rebecca aged 9

Love can be hard, love can equal pain
Me and my boyfriend, oh why won’t he love me again?
He loves another girl, but why not me?
I can live with it but no one can compete.