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Jake the Cake's Children's poetry.
http://jakethecake.wordpress.com
A blog of children's poetry. Funny verse with an occasional dark side... I began this blog in March 2008 and have since been adopted by several well-known children's poets. Hopefully this will lead to some of these poems being published in the future.
- Added on: Sep 6th, 2008
- Country: United Kingdom
- Language: English
- Author: Paul Hughes
- Listed in: Poems
- Tags: baby cat cake fairy tale crocodile penguin
Recent Posts
The Sad, Mad, Scientist
I’m worried, Professor, you seem very ill. Each day you appear to be thinner. You lie there quite silently, perfectly still, refusing your breakfast and dinner. I know that your submarine sunroof went wrong and drowned quite a number of men. Th...
An Elementary Tongue Twister.
There is hydrogen and helium, then lithium, berilium, boron, carbon, nitrogen and oxygen (a gas). There’s fluoride, neon, sodium, a metal called “magnesium,” another: “aluminium” and silicon makes glass. Phosphorus is poisonous and sulphur...
Uncle Ted
That funny smell is Uncle Ted, for though he’s been a long time dead, we didn’t bury him, instead, we left him in his chair. And though we dust him twice a day, to keep the rats and flies away, the Health and Safety people say “he can...
Posh Zombie
We’re rotten, we stink, but we’re not what you think: those zombies you see on TV. We’re cultured, refined, so we hope you won’t mind if we munch on your brains for our tea. We know some undead are quite crude and ill-bred. They eat with no ...
The invention of the hot air baaaaaaloon: 1783 AD
The sheep cried “Baa! I’m scared of heights!” The chicken clucked and squawked with fright The duck replied “we’ll be alright” And quacked a cheerful tune: “Although we’re still ascending And there’s no use pretending unless...
School’s out for EVER!
I was working as a doctor in the local A&E. A boy came in, his parents wept and wailed. Upon examination it was plain for all to see, his heart was weak, his lungs and kidneys failed. The look of pain upon his face, too dreadful to remember, his...
