Workshop 8: Chalk Farm Library under 5s
May 5, 2011
On March 18th, myself and senior librarian Nick Durant worked with the children and parents who were attending Chalk Farm library's under 5s rhyme time group. As well as the old Mother Goose classics, my own poems about bubbles were a big hit. Admittedly this may have been as much to do with the invitation to pop the bubbles I was blowing as to do with my poetry!
Still there's few things more inspiring than a room full of parents and small children enjoying discovering words together. Here's a poem I wrote about it. In my opinion, anyone who has doubts about the vital role libraries play in developing our sense of community should get along to one of these sessions to see for themselves.
Rhyme Time
Love is a small boy with a killer whale
in one hand and a dinosaur in the other,
speeding away on a rocking boat
with a princess behind him and an angel
in front. Perfectly balanced as their pink
and purple taffeta layers billow
in the breeze. They trail their silver
glitter slippers in the swirls of the magic carpet
as they row their dreams past crocodiles
and a golden house where the farmer's wife
is chased by three blind mice and a room
full of carefully choreographed incy wincy spiders
who dance up and down the water spout.
The stars twinkle overhead as French monks
sing on the moon before catching the last bus
back to the library where Polly is putting the kettle
on for tea and we all fall down in the zoom zoom
zoom of bubbles and roses and laughter
by Adelaide Road Participants
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