Orange Monster

Blacky The Bunny

Blacky the Bunny
Is rather funny
As he fills his tummy
Full of bunny rabbit treats
Some are savoury and some are sweet
Some from the garden some bought, packaged neat

He nibbles them up
Takes some water to sup
Eats bunny brunch by the cup
His feet are big
But to thump not dig
So he can talk to the giunea pig!

With floppy ears
That do endear –
Him to us, never you fear
Blacky Buns we hold so dear
Even when on Mummy he pees
And costs money to prevent fleas
Or nibbles out Daddy’s trouser knees!

Blacky White Hot Cross Bun
You are so soft, a bundle of fun
We’ll put you on the bunny lead
And take you for a run!

The Easter Parade

In a bonnet festooned with flowers
An Easter Hen clucks to her chicks
It’s that time of year again
They all line up to sing
About chickens and legs
And then?
The lambs gambol in the field
Delighted by the spring time verse
Whilst rabbits all ears and feet
Hide lots of lovely treats
For all the little ones to eat!

This isn’t really what I’d call a poem but my little girl really likes them – in the previous books they appear inside something like a pumpkin or christmas tree – same with this one!

Easter Bonnet
Easter Egg
Easter Bunny
Easter Chick
Easter Basket
Easter Tide
Easter Sunday
Easter Sun
Easter FUN!

The Easter Egg Hunt

In the garden in the spring
There is an extra special thing
In the garden hidden and hiding
Lay little chocolate eggs for finding
Bunny lollies and marshmallow chicks
And reusable iridescent eggs just for kicks

Jean is waiting for her friends
She’s got out the colouring pens
Mummy’s sorted baskets for all to make
And for Daddy there’s a nest shaped Birthday cake!

Friends start arriving and the bunny appears
All tall and lanky and maybe looking just a bit like Daddy!
The children follow him round about
Finding eggs with excited shouts!

Then there is the egg and spoon race
Coloured eggs smashing with each pace
But the kids are laughing, stomping and giggling
And to cap it all there is the Little Chicken song for singing!

This is your little book of Easter poetry
For springtime or anytime really

So I hope you like bunnies, chicks and flowers
Not to mention chocolate eggs in sky scraping towers!

The sort that melt in a sticky mess
They are of course the best!

And just incase a naughty winter is lurking about
Lets give the shout!

Happy Easter!

🙂 It has been a most productive month and I now have so many more projects to finish! (Doh!)

Here are some pictures I’ve done to accompany the poems 🙂

I have achieved just over 30 poems for this month – they are all children’s ones for MoP challenge and are for various Little Books of Poetry. So I have technically finished the challenge but I am still putting in a hour a day.

Alot of the poems are not yet good enough to be used including from previous Little Books! So I am editing. But I am also desperatly working on some illustrations for the Little Book of New Baby Poetry. My baby will be here soon and I want this book of poetry as a present for my little girl when it arrives!

The next priority is The Little Book of Easter Poetry as that is the next one in the calendar!

As I mentioned last week I am taking part in what is supposed to be a poem a day challenge (PAD) – this months one is called MoP (Month of Poetry) but I have altered it slightly to suit me.

I have been working an hour a day on my children’s poetry – mainly the Little Books of Poetry.

This has lead to me brain storming ideas for Little Books of Poetry! So here are ten titles for me to be getting on with 🙂

1) The Little Book of Spoogy Poetry – ten Halloween poems for children (all ready written and illustrated still in finial stages of editing! Have already made a Mk1 and Mk2 of this book)

2) The Little Book of Festive Poetry – ten Christmas poems for children (all ready written and illustrated and now with some poems revised! Still needs a bit more ‘digitizing’ Have made a Mk1 of this book)

3) The Little Book of Sparky Poetry – ten fireworks night poems for children (poems are now all written)

4) The Little Book of Easter Poetry – ten Easter themed poems for children (poems are now all written)

5) The Little Book of New Baby Poetry – ten poems about a new arrival in the family and babies in general, for children (poems all written)

6) The Little Book of Wedding Poetry – ten poems about weddings for children

7) The Little Book of Birthday Poetry – ten poems about birthdays for children

8) The Little Book of School Time Poetry – ten poems about school for children

9) The Little Book of Feasts and What Not Poetry – ten poems about festivals and feasts for children

10) The Little Book of Holiday Poetry – ten poems about going on holiday for children

I was going to this post last week but thought that pimping for votes on my art work was more important 😉 – there’s still time to vote you know!

2010 was an interesting year and though productive the productivity was very much bunched together – I feel this is a good way to bump start things but don’t really want to continue in that vein. I want a steady out put. This means that though I will still be taking part in the writing challenges this year I am going to be adapting them to suite me!

This month I am working on MoPo (Month of Poetry) this is a warm up for WoPoWriMo (World Poetry Writing Month) next month and also a chance to focus myself specifically on my Children’s poetry. I am planning to spend an hour a day on this as I want to do more than just writing the bones of a poem down – I have lots of kids poems now sitting there waiting to be sorted out plus I really want to publish The Little Books this year and I found some of the poems still really did need a lot of work and in the case of the Spoogy Book I actually sort of need to write some more poems to bring it in line with the format I have set out for the books!

I am also going to be scrounging around for more things like the paleo-art community on Art Evolved and the ESA competitions. Preferably science type things but they don’t have to be. These drawings have made me sit down on a regular basis and actually draw. Add in a few more exhibits like last years Open Air one in Cheltenham and I would be very happy. I think I am improving drastically which means illustrating my own stories and those of others is less scary – oh I could do it before but it was a hit and miss process and I would spend more time worrying over not being able to produce something again or on time.

Anyway – these are my plans for the year 🙂 Hope you all have a good one!

This is my entry to the ESA (European Space Agency) art competition Create Your Space. If you like it you have until the beginning of February (2011) to vote for it. You vote by liking my comment on the ESA image on their Facebook page – here is the link you’ll need to tell you how to vote ;). I hope you all like it. I believe you need to “like” the page before you can vote. I am Sarah Snell-Pym and this entry is linked under the image of Christer Fuglesang’s Space Walk – it is quiet a way down their wall on Facebook.

Did Life fall into this cradle
This Earth, this home –
We now attempt to climb out of?
Or is it more than a cradle
Some crucible or potters wheel
Shaping and baking us in forms renewed?

Maybe in truth it is a bit of both
And as humanity takes its first toddler steps
We begin to see the variety that our world holds

LIFE –

Life here investigated
In case of alien brethren
Life searched for by the heart if not the mind
As the astronaut steps out into the void
For themselves, for us, for a future
A future – As yet unknown
A future for us all
As we grow too large for this world to contain
A cradle we have explored from end to end

But it is only with eyes freshly opened
To the wonders beyond
That we begin to see what we have missed
That which hides in plan sight
The beauty of our world
We seek its twins, our mirrors –
Its twisted folly of form

OUT THERE

And if we are on our own?
Then look at the wonders the search has wrought
And if we are not?
Then maybe we will truly see ourselves
For the first time

Until then the void is calling
And all these things?

These investigations
These satellites
And images –
Are our jumping off point
Our call to the unknown

Do you wonder what it will answer?