Mark Bird
Your Book Of Life: A Poem For World Book Day
Shakespeare's "All the world's a stage," is a constant earworm, or should that be #quoteworm? Anyway, that's what inspired my latest poem...
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Mark Bird
- Feb 22
- 1 min
When Someone Is Good poem
Yesterday I started thinking about how as a teachers, we are often encouraged (maybe even brainwashed) into endlessly looking for ways to...
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Mark Bird
- Dec 28, 2022
- 1 min
What Is A Smile? A Rondelet Poem
There's nothing more special than someone loving a poem you write and then choosing to share it by reading it in a way I never could....
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Mark Bird
- Dec 12, 2022
- 1 min
They Should Have Made Me Inside Out
Some poems just fall into your head. This was one of those poems. It began as a random thought inspired by a mundane activity; I was...
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Mark Bird
- Nov 27, 2022
- 1 min
"In The Right Lane" by Stephanie Henson
First, I want to say thank you to Stephanie Henson for sending me a copy of her new poetry anthology for children called, "In The Right...
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Mark Bird
- Nov 1, 2022
- 1 min
Mark Bird (aka Dreambeastpoems) interviewed on the BBC
It was great to be interviewed on BBC Radio London last night about my debut picture book, "Halloween Date From Hell." I was nervous but...
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Mark Bird
- Oct 19, 2022
- 1 min
🎃 Win a copy of my new book: Halloween Date From Hell 🧟♂️ 🧙♀️
Hello everybody, I have copies of my new book to giveaway! The story tells us of wicked witch who needs a date for Halloween. Eventually,...
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Mark Bird
- Oct 12, 2022
- 1 min
Halloween Date From Hell by Mark Bird and Chris White
I've waited all my life for my first book to be released. The journey to get here has involved every single human emotion in existence...
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Mark Bird
- Oct 1, 2022
- 1 min
An Owed Ode to Saturday
Saturday has always had the privilege of blessing us with good times, funshine and a whole heap of hope. I bet many of your best...
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Mark Bird
- Sep 15, 2022
- 1 min
The Old Rec. of Uttoxeter
We all have that place, that only we know. The Old Rec. in Uttoxeter was that place for so many of us from town where we learned how to...
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Mark Bird
- Sep 13, 2022
- 1 min
Getting Shirty: A poem of puns, idioms, personification and wordplay
I love teaching figurative language: #puns, #idioms #personification and general #wordplay. How many different types of...
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Mark Bird
- Sep 12, 2022
- 3 min
A Trilogy of Poems about working in Nursery for the first time
So, I was trained as a Key Stage 2 teacher (7 to11) at Edge Hill University over thirty years ago: in those days you had to choose...
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Mark Bird
- Sep 12, 2022
- 1 min
New Paperbound Magazine Edition on the theme of Magic
I'm very proud to have my poem, "Seasoned Magicians" featured in the brilliant, 2nd anniversary edition of Paperbound Magazine. The...
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Mark Bird
- Jul 31, 2022
- 1 min
New Dreambeast Poems Website
Poets, teachers, children, art educators and anyone involved with education and inspiring young minds, come get involved at...
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Mark Bird
- Apr 28, 2022
- 1 min
Ten Year Old Love
I've been teaching for thirty years ... and one theme is eternal: LOVE! I often end up teaching Year 6. To see them toe-dipping into an...
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Mark Bird
- Apr 22, 2022
- 1 min
My First Kiss
I love Alan Carr and he made me laugh out loud with his joke on Interior Design Masters about his first kiss; it reminded my of my own...
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Mark Bird
- Apr 21, 2022
- 2 min
The Realm of Smaller Things by Kent Knowles
Thank you to Ventorros Press for sending me an advance copy of The Realm of Smaller Things by Kent Knowles. You can follow Kent on ...
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Mark Bird
- Mar 25, 2022
- 1 min
Mother Said
Once in my teenage years, from the living room window, me and Mum were staring out at the army of beaten council house terraces that...
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Mark Bird
- Feb 2, 2022
- 1 min
Valentine Poems
If you've read anything on here before, you'll know Brian Moses is a bit if a hero for me. Not only did I begin my teaching career...
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Mark Bird
- Feb 1, 2022
- 2 min
I Didn't Dare Go
I went to see Lemn Sissay at The Lyric Theatre in Hammersmith on Sunday. He was incredible; a total inspiration. One minute I was...
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