MD 2011
Down by the School Gate
Looping the Loop
The Underground Snake
Windscreen wiper
The Storm
Poems and Sounds
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But as it emerges
from out of its cave
I won’t run away
and I’ll try to be brave.
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Rain Rhymes by Tony Mitton
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The rain is falling on the ground.
It makes a lovely liquid sound.
A dripping splishing sploshing splashing.
In the wind, a luscious lashing.
When it drops, a peaceful plashing,
Cars are swooshing, people dashing,
Children stamping: puddle bashing.
Roofs are sheened and slates are flashing.
Slantwise lines of rain are slashing.
Sleek and shiny rain is smashing.
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six dogs bark bark barking
five cars stopping, parking
four child-minders running
three bus-drivers sunning
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two teenagers dating
one lollipop man waiting …..
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The school is out,
it’s half past three
and first to the school gate…..
is me!
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Noises
LISTEN
Looping The Loop by Charles Thomson
Zooperty, zooperty zoop,
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the aeroplane’s looping the loop.
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It’s zooming up,
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Hair Drier
Rain Rhymes
Noise
it’s zooming high
Whisper Whisper
Rain
above the town.
The Underground Snake by Tony Mitton
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What is that rumbling
under the ground?
What is that rushing
and shuddering sound?
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it’s zooming down,
Storm
Feel the world tremble.
Feel the earth quake.
It must be the race
of the Underground Snake.
Fireworks
Windscreen Wiper by S. K. Vickery
For I know it’s quite tame
and will take you and me
through the dark to our homes,
to our telly and tea.
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I Like Noise
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With its sinuous length
in a snakeskin of steel
it slips through the ways
of the earth like an eel.
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Ten-Nil
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Flicker flicker flack!
Flicker flicker flack!
The wiper on the car goes
Flicker flicker flack!
The rain falls flick!
The rain falls flick!
And the wiper on the car goes
Flicker flicker flack!
Flick!
Flack!
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The Storm
Storm
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Listen can you hear the rain?
See the lightning flash.
Now it’s thundering again.
Can you hear the crash?
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whisper whisper
go the beech leaves
breathing in the
wind alone
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TenTen-Nil by Colin Warren
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The phantom fans are chanting
There’s a cheer in my ear as I score
I’ve done it again: ten goals to me
And nil to the garage door!
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So I shall stay inside my house
because it’s dry and warm.
I’ll stand beside the window
and watch the growing storm.
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Whisper Whisper by Kit Wright
whisper whisper
whisper whisper
goes my sister
down the phone
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The clouds are dark above my house.
The sky is full of rain.
There’s thunder deeply rumbling
and droplets on the pane.
Down by the School Gate by Wes Magee
whisper whisper
whisper whisper
slips the river
on the stone
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whisper whisper
go my parents
when they whisper
on their own
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I don’t mind
whisper whisper
whisper whisper
it’s a tune
There goes the bell
it’s half-past three
and down by the school gate
you will see……
Sometimes though
I wish the whisper
whisperings would
shut up soon
…….. ten mums talk talking
nine babies squawk squawking
eight toddlers all squabbling
seven grans on bikes wobbling
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I like noise
Noises
The whoop of a boy, the thud of a hoof
The loudest noise I ever heard –
It was a train that puffed and grunted,
As along the track it shunted.
Roaring loudly on its way,
It must have had a lot to say.
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The rattle of rain on a galvanised roof
The hubbub of traffic, the roar of a train
I LIKE
NOISE!
The scream of a siren, piercing the brain.
The switching of wires in an overhead tram
The rush of the wind, the door on the slam
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The boom of the thunder, the crash of the waves
The din of a river that races and raves,
The crack of a rifle, the clank of a pail,
The strident tattoo of a swift slapping sail
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The softest noise I ever heard –
It was a teeny, weeny mouse,
As he scampered to his house.
He sat so still behind the wall,
I hardly heard his noise at all.
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I LIKE NOISE!
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I like Noise by Jessie Pope
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LISTEN……
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Hear the sounds that surround us,
people taking,
music playing,
birds singing,
traffic rumbling.
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My mum’s hair drier
buzzes like a bee
Looks like a ray gun
when she points it at me.
Hair Drier by Maggie Holmes
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“Into the bath now,
to shampoo your hair,
then out for a rub down
and a blow of hot air.”
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It prickles my head
and tingles my ears,
It tickles my neck
as it zooms and it whirrs.
It whizzes and whooshes and buzzes at me.
It sounds more like a bad-tempered bee!
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BANG! There goes another one,
Screaming as it goes.
It’s getting high,
Up in the sky,
And fizzle - there she blows!
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WHOOSH! Up high above the house,
Behind a trail of sparks.
Yellow, orange,
Red and white,
Exploding in the dark!
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The clashing
and bashing
and smashing of plates.
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Noise
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The teeming
and splashing
and streaming of rain.
The making
and baking
and scoffing of cakes.
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Fireworks by Gareth Lancaster
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I like noise.
The huffing
and puffing
and buffing of a train.
Rain by Bruce Lansky
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Drip Drop
Drip drop, drip drop,
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horrid rain won’t stop.
Dropping on my windowpane,
it’s driving me insane.
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