Not your usual poem

Here are a couple of poems from two of our poetry books in our library

A poem from - Forgive me, I meant to do it by Gail Carson Levine

(False Apology Poems)

This Is Just to Say

You fell

and cracked

your skull

on the hill

where

I had carefully 

placed

a banana peel

Forgive me

Jill

is now 

my girlfriend

from the book - Happily Never After....modern cautionary verse

by

Mitchell Symons

Like many children of her age

Chloe loves her Facebook page

but unlike most, poor Chloe seems

To take her Facebook to extremes

She can't think or cry or chortle

Unless it's through Facebook's portal

To be online just seems so right

At any time of day or night

Offline, her world is just a blur:

Her Facebook friends are real to her

They poke her, 'like' her, check her feed

And hang on every word and deed

Her total count of friends to date?

Nine hundred and seventy-eight

Twenty-two more would be just 'grand' -

That's her next status update planned!

Then there's the 'chat' and all the games -

Farmville, The Sims - you know the names

Facebook's life without dross

It's not for you? then that's your loss!

Chloe thinks she is totally cool

Blanking all the kids at school

(Except for Emma. a Facebook friend,

Her classmates drive her round the bend).

It's true that bowling sounds like fun,

As does a picnic in the sun

These she ignores without a flicker

She craves a world that updates quicker.

So forget that party - nix that meal;

Forgo that concert - no big deal!

Who cares that Chloe has no chums?

She will, you see, when the time comes.

Moral: friends are people you can count on - not count.