: About Me

Online children's writer. Part time teacher and full time Dreambeast!

My passion is ...

Writing poems and stories for kids

I know too much about ...

80's music

My parents always told me ...

Leave this town

My childhood ambition ...

Singing, dancing and running away with a travelling funfair

My favorite memory ...

4 hazy years at college

Why I write ...

It frees me and keeps me believing

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

From the sublime to the ridiculous

My first job ...

Alton Towers

My best moment ...

Getting my website established and out there

My inspiration ...

Childhood in all its mad and magical guises

Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Halloween

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Halloween Date From Hell I'm sick of chopping creatures up I'm tired of making broth Filled with bleedin' legs of frog And flaky wings of moth So I bought 'The Undead Times' last week And clawed the classifieds To find a date for Halloween - an ugly one who's died! Being the busiest time of year The list was not the most - A mischief-seeking goblin, A bored, retired ghost Confused and lonely werewolf types Who couldn't do full moons A vampire who'd prefer to not Do sunny afternoons A pumpkin-monster desperate For air-heads with a grin A skeleton who'd like to meet A slim girl thin on skin ...

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