<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=367448" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Poems What I Wrote</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Invited by a local School<br>To read my poems out, <br>The children giggled at the fool<br>And thus caused me to doubt, <br>But I pressed on, towards the end<br>Of each one that I did, <br>I then looked up to find one friend, <br>Yet not one single kid...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But I pressed on, not giving in, <br>Concisely as before...<br>And thinking somehow I would win, <br>Each snore I could ignore...<br>I must admit I sighed a bit, <br>You know what children are...<br>Yet I continued with true grit, <br>My last one wasn't far...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So I pressed on and read it proud, <br>Each word defiantly! <br>Yes, I stood tall and I spoke loud<br>With my best poetry...<br>The silence then was deafening! <br>In fact, I almost snapped! <br>Then the children stood up cheering<br>And clapped and clapped and clapped...</div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Denis Martindale, copyright, September 2012.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>The poem was written in regard to a TV series<br>on Sky Digital's Disney Junior and Disney Junior+<br>entitled A Poem Is... It was described in this way: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">A series of classic poetry shorts read by iconic<br>British celebrities combined with powerful<br>animation moments from Disney's magical legacy...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But what if the poet were to go to a School and<br>had to read his poems out in front of the children? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">As they say, 'Good luck with that...'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Denis+Martindale">Denis Martindale</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=367448" data-title="Poems What I Wrote de Denis Martindale" data-description="Invited by a local School To read my poems out, The children giggled at the fool And thus caused me to doubt, But I pressed on, towards the end Of each one that I did, I then looked up to find one friend, Yet not one single kid... But I press..."></div> </div> </div>

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