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Welcome to my poetry blog for kids and teachers
Welcome to my poetry blog for kids and teachers! I believe that poetry is a wonderful way to inspire creativity and imagination in young minds. My poetry blog for kids features a variety of poems, from silly and fun to thought-provoking and meaningful. I hope you enjoy reading and sharing these poems with your students and children.
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UPDATE: Many of my poetry blog posts now include Creative Writing, Drama and Poetry Lessons for teachers featuring creative writing and poetry worksheets.
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Two of My Poems Taking Flight on the Brilliant New Poetry Webzine
If you haven't discovered the new resource-rich website, jam-packed with poems for children, then you have to take a ride on board The...
Mark Bird
Aug 24, 20211 min read
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Halloween Date From Hell to be published as a picture book 2022
I am extremely excited to announce that Ventorros Press will be publishing my poem Halloween Date From Hell in 2022. The brilliant Chris...
Mark Bird
Aug 17, 20211 min read
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Welcome aboard The Dirigible Balloon
Take a flight aboard The Dirigible Balloon! The Dirigible Balloon is a new webzine featuring poetry written for children by both new and...
Mark Bird
Jul 26, 20212 min read
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Believing in Yourself Poem: 'If I Were Me' - Embrace Your True Self
It's wonderful to see your poems used, but when a charity is using them for a good cause, that is #proud with bells on. I love these hand...
Mark Bird
Jul 19, 20211 min read
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Olympics Poem for Kids! A Motivational Track & Field Athletics Poem
Olympics Poem for Kids! A Motivational Track & Field Athletics Poem
Mark Bird
Jul 19, 20212 min read
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Ghost Children: How many young minds have you inspired?
As a teacher, you always wonder what became of the hundreds, if not thousands, of children you once taught. Classrooms can be strangely...
Mark Bird
Jul 15, 20211 min read
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Brain Moses does it again... an inspiring force for many new poets ... KS1 Poetry
Did Brian Moses just include me in the sentence, "A fine selection of poems for early years from some of our finest children's poets." I...
Mark Bird
Jul 6, 20211 min read
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Dorothy - Polo & Pan
Still one of my favourite videos of recent years. It's created by the fabulous, French and sometimes frivolous #PoloandPan ...and the...
Mark Bird
Jul 6, 20211 min read
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Sparks That Lit Up Question Marks, Ideas In Human Heads - A Poem About Inventions
Click HERE for the poem or HERE for poetry lesson ideas. I was very proud to have this poem, Sparks, picked up and published by Gill Education, Ireland. It was the inception of believing that my poems were worth something to somebody. One day, I found myself looking around me, at every object and every thing that had led to that object to being something. I marvelled at the fact that I couldn't see much that wouldn't exist unless someone had thought of the idea or invention a
Mark Bird
Jul 6, 20213 min read
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Love and Positivity: Heart Photography Competition
So at my school, inspired by Galley Hill Primary School I decided to have our very own Heart Photography Competition: Make a heart with...
Mark Bird
Jul 1, 20211 min read
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Queen Bowie by Banksy
Some things are good enough to just be recreated as is. And there's not many works of art I create with the children at school, take...
Mark Bird
Jun 30, 20211 min read
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Burst Bubbles - Poem for my Year 6s who lost their final week of primary school
So, at this time of year, my poem The Full Stop Day takes off as teachers get ready to say goodbye to their classes and children prepare...
Mark Bird
Jun 30, 20212 min read
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Minibeast Art
A simple idea, elevated by getting the children to draw on the pages of an old book. What language is this? All I know, it looks...
Mark Bird
Jun 24, 20211 min read
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DreambeastPoems: New Illustrations by Chris White
Sometimes the world wide web can be such a playground of positivity, shining so bright, that the negativity that snaps from our screens...
Mark Bird
Jun 24, 20212 min read
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Expressing Gratitude: How To Write a Thank a Teacher Poem for Kids
Expressing Gratitude: How To Write a Thank a Teacher Poem for Kids
Mark Bird
Jun 22, 20212 min read
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40 essential education and teacher Twitter accounts and hashtags for 2021
A great blog post by Hope Education about the essential Twitter accounts every teacher needs to follow ... Do you know more? Please add...
Mark Bird
Jun 18, 20211 min read
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So What Have The Teachers Ever Done For Us ?
To celebrate, National Thank A Teacher Day I wrote a new poem about the power of a teacher... with a lot of inspiration from one of my...
Mark Bird
Jun 17, 20211 min read
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National Thank a Teacher Day ... #HowWillYouSayThankYou
Thank A Teacher: Ripples The future of the world is in your class today So teacher do be proud and trust in what you say For every word...
Mark Bird
Jun 15, 20212 min read
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Oh To Be A Bird
I was sunbathing in the back garden, pointing my camera aimlessly at the delicious blue sky when this little fella came a-soaring.......
Mark Bird
Jun 12, 20211 min read
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Poetry For Good: A poetry competition celebrating Key Workers
I feel blessed to have my poem "Schoolsick" long listed in the https://www.poetryforgood.org.uk/ competition aimed at celebrating the...
Mark Bird
Jun 12, 20211 min read
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Heart Photography Project
I had to share this. The best ideas really can be the simplest. I don't the know full details of the project or how it was set up but...
Mark Bird
May 22, 20211 min read
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Love in 4 lines
Some humans are lucky enough to find their missing half ... Me, Ourselves and You Forget about the only one It’s about the only two Not...
Mark Bird
May 15, 20211 min read
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Colours I've Been: A Metaphor Poem About Colours... Gloriously subjective
Two different poems exploring colours as #metaphors. What colours have you been at different stages of your life? What does a colour do...
Mark Bird
May 15, 20212 min read
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Bedtime At Batman's - Poems for Young Children
I'm made up to have Brian Moses use one of my poems, Bedtime At Batman's , in his mini Key Stage 1 anthology here alongside such great contemporary children's poets ... Click their names to find out more and go on a wonder journey with them: Sue Hardy-Dawson , Neal Zetter , Joshua Seigal , Shauna Darling Robertson , Coral Rumble and Kate Williams . Photo by Robert Collins on Unsplash Bedtime at Batman’s THWACK! ZAP! SPLAAT! WHAP ! Batman’s moonlit fight OWW! ZIP! OUCH!
Mark Bird
May 8, 20211 min read
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