Poems What I Wrote

Invited by a local School To read my poems out, The children giggled at the fool And thus caused me to doubt, But I pressed on, towards the end Of each one that I did, I then looked up to find one friend, Yet not one single kid... But I pressed on, not giving in, Concisely as before... And thinking somehow I would win, Each snore I could ignore... I must admit I sighed a bit, You know what children are... Yet I continued with true grit, My last one wasn't far... So I pressed on and read it proud, Each word defiantly! Yes, I stood tall and I spoke loud With my best poetry... The silence then was deafening! In fact, I almost snapped! Then the children stood up cheering And clapped and clapped and clapped... Denis Martindale, copyright, September 2012. The poem was written in regard to a TV series on Sky Digital's Disney Junior and Disney Junior+ entitled A Poem Is... It was described in this way: A series of classic poetry shorts read by iconic British celebrities combined with powerful animation moments from Disney's magical legacy... But what if the poet were to go to a School and had to read his poems out in front of the children? As they say, 'Good luck with that...'