11-01-2011, 05:47 PM
Thanks Addy and Billy.
I found these poems last night after I thought they were gone forever after a blue screen of death disaster a few years ago and had never got around to editing and going through them. Probably missed the bus now, but I based them on a 1930s science book for 9-12 year olds that had been in family bookcases for probably that long, before all the new parodies of 'Things for a Bright Boy To Do' appeared in WH Smits etc. It is a real eye opener what they were expected to know and do at that age back then!
Thanks Billy - I didn't know the level of image that needed warnings here.
Addy- I will re- jig the first stanza with the aside- I see what you mean. That's what we are here for!
I found these poems last night after I thought they were gone forever after a blue screen of death disaster a few years ago and had never got around to editing and going through them. Probably missed the bus now, but I based them on a 1930s science book for 9-12 year olds that had been in family bookcases for probably that long, before all the new parodies of 'Things for a Bright Boy To Do' appeared in WH Smits etc. It is a real eye opener what they were expected to know and do at that age back then!
Thanks Billy - I didn't know the level of image that needed warnings here.
Addy- I will re- jig the first stanza with the aside- I see what you mean. That's what we are here for!