I’ve an ol’ grandfather clock
Its hands move along, tick-tock!
Grey, and brown, and lined with grime,
Oh well, at least he tells time!
Then again, telling the time doesn’t need a Sherlock…
If you were one inch tall,
a dolls’ house would be a great hall,
the shower will be a storm,
and a little piece of thread would be a long white worm.
If you were one inch tall,
you would have to run miles for a call,
The wall would be two thousand feet tall,
be careful because you can fall!
If you were one inch tall,
it would be easy to get lost in a mall,
a feather would be a soft bed,
and a leaf could become a big shed.
Henry! Henry!
Where are you?
Come back fast,
You naughty boy!
Till I cook the apple pie.
I have three dogs,
Big and small,
Two are short and one is tall,
Collie cross spaniel,
Huntaway cross collie,
And dachshund cross Jack Russel,
One bark is loud,
One acts excitable,
The other likes to chew the legs of the table!
Happy dogs running around,
Playing with each other,
Having fun,
Lying happily in the sun.
A long time ago,
when there were no
people,
the dinosaurs roamed.
The Earth was their home
on the land, in the sky and in the
sea.
Pterodactyl flew high,
soaring ruler of skies.
Triceratops charged in a fight
to survive.
Tyrannosaur roared and
he stomped, and he clawed.
Extinction; an asteroid strike.
I have a cat and he is called Lat and he is very fat.
I have a dog and she is called Mog and she chews on a log.
I love my dog and cat
How about that?
Ramanujan was the man who knew infinity
And understood math’s divinity.
He was a great mathematician,
Who solved maths’ problems like magician.
With his friend Hardy he began to work on mathematics
And started solving problems in statistics and quadratics.
Both worked together closely
and formulated many a theory,
Ramanujan was the gem of India,
He was like a maths encyclopedia.
Srinivasa Ramanujan we miss you a lot,
You will be in everyone’s heart.
“I have discovered something
Something that will change our lives
Or more precisely, our childhoods
Toys are not what they seemed to be
For no law of physics can explain the fascination of a child
For plastic dolls and fake cars
The key to this secret is magic
There is sorcery in them which attracts children
Attracts them to fake plastic things
Adults can resist the urge
But children can’t
The spell wears off in a few days
Sometimes months
And that’s why children get bored with toys.”
And that’s how a scientist loses his job
For no sorcery attracts a child to a toy
It’s curiosity
Curiosity that fades as we grow older
For adults have seen the world
But children have not
And toys allow them to see the world
That they have not seen yet