POEM STARTER
‘All in a golden afternoon, under the skies of cloudless blue.’
Write a poem that begins or ends with this line, adapted from Alice in Wonderland. Don’t feel limited to the themes and images of the book – see where else you could go from these words.
One Summers Day
There’s a crash at the end of the street
Piercing in the summer heat
Stopping you dead on your feet
The screaming is hardly discrete
The van hit a wall you see
Then bounced back into a tree
Where old Tom sat with a cup of tea
He’s dead, between you and me
His poor wife had popped to the loo
Luckily, or she’d be dead too
Such a tragic event, that much is true
All in a golden afternoon, under the skies of cloudless blue
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