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A Cross Stick Poem – Acrostic and Personification Poem for Kids

A Cross Stick Poem


A lovely little twig is what I used to be!


Could and should have been a branch!!!

Regrettably though

On one blooming day in March

Silly singing starlings

Swayed and weighed on me


Sat and snapped me from my tree

Thrusting my dreams, buds and all

Into an earthly-bound, free-falling plunge

Cross, I cursed the kinking worms

Kindly welcoming me to their ground of gunge


Please just leave me alone, I barked

Only then to be seized between his jaws:

Earl, a four-legged fur ball

Macerating my life to sodden splinters


Mark Bird


Can You Find the Hidden Title?

Read down the first letter of every line. What does it spell? Try writing your own acrostic poem in which the hidden word or phrase connects with the subject of the poem.
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