CHILDREN’S BOOKS
by
Lyn Hurry
Suitable
for classroom or private teaching and
performance
Available NOW
Footlights – 60 performance poems for
individuals, pairs and groups
Fresh Skids – 30 revised, updated and
expanded skits for kids
Promises I and Promises II – Christian worldview
performance poetry
Character
Chats – monologues,
duologues and small group skits
All
above $20.00 per copy including postage
Email:
lynhurry@bigpond.com
Phone: 0466 393 341
Read,
Teach, Listen, Perform, Enjoy
The
copyright © for all material in these volumes belongs to
the author, Mrs Lyn Hurry.
No poem may be copied or published without her agreement.
Permission IS given to use the material
for private or public performance, with the proper
acknowledgement of the author.
WRIGGLING
When
the teacher asks us to sit,
what do we do? We wriggle!
When we’re sitting, thoughts start to flit
and we begin to giggle.
We fiddle and we fumble
and we make each other laugh,
until the teacher tells us
that she’s really had enough!
BUT
It is very hard to be good;
we can’t sit still, we wriggle.
We all need some handcuffs and hood;
we stand all higgedly-piggle.
We fight and nudge and scratch and squirm
and blame all but ourselves,
until the teacher keeps us in
to clean the desks and shelves.
SO
Please forgive us if we seem
a little out of tune;
for after all, we’re children and
we’ll grow up much too soon.
And then you will be sorry
when we’ve lost our cheeky faces.
We’ll stand up straight and stare ahead
with no hair out of places!
What a shame! No more games!
We’ve stopped all our nods and niggling.
there’ll be
no more
lovely
Wr...i...gg...ling!
© Lyn Hurry
CAUGHT!
She crept
to the kitchen in dark of the night;
she knew she must leave there before morning light.
But hungry, yes hungry, so hungry she felt,
she couldn’t resist what she found on the shelf.
No one would notice, she thought with a grin;
no one would hear as she tippy-toed in.
She sampled the biscuits the lady had baked,
and stole a few crumbs of her favourite cake.
The bag of brown sugar was open - what bliss!
just one or two samples would never be missed.
A final quick nibble before she went back -
when suddenly everything turned to ink-black.
***
The lady came out to the pantry next day,
and emptied the mouse-trap and threw her away.
With a shake of your head, “Oh, how sad!” you might say;
but remember the slogan that CRIME DOESN’T PAY!
© Lyn Hurry
WRIGGLING
When the
teacher asks us to sit,
what do we do? We wriggle!
When we’re sitting, thoughts start to flit
and we begin to giggle.
We fiddle and we fumble
and we make each other laugh,
until the teacher tells us
that she’s really had enough!
BUT
It is very hard to be good;
we can’t sit still, we wriggle.
We all need some handcuffs and hood;
we stand all higgedly-piggle.
We fight and nudge and scratch and squirm
and blame all but ourselves,
until the teacher keeps us in
to clean the desks and shelves.
SO
Please forgive us if we seem
a little out of tune;
for after all, we’re children and
we’ll grow up much too soon.
And then you will be sorry
when we’ve lost our cheeky faces.
We’ll stand up straight and stare ahead
with no hair out of places!
What a shame! No more games!
We’ve stopped all our nods and niggling.
there’ll be
no more
lovely
Wr...i...gg...ling!
© Lyn
Hurry
LEARNING
SOME MANNERS
It takes some
practice, I’ll admit, to learn what’s known as etiquette.
There seem to be so many rules; and our house is the
strictest school.
My mother started long ago – ‘Now do not sniff; please
learn to blow.
Just for a change, try not to slouch.’ (Why must MY Mum
be such a grouch?)
‘Come, stand up straight with shoulders back; then when
you sit, don’t go all slack.
Hands out of pockets when you walk; and LOOK at people
when you talk.
Don’t slurp your drinks, don’t scrape your plate, don’t
talk while eating please ... just wait.
Don’t eat your gravy with the bread. You haven’t heard a
word I’ve said!’
‘Pick up those feet; try not to mumble.’ (Mum’s great at
finding one more grumble).
At last I felt I had it right, and vowed to show them all
last night.
Dad, tired from work, came home for tea. I wondered if
he’d notice me
with manners which would make him proud, like saying,
‘Thank you’ very loud.
I ate my soup without a slurp and only gave a little
burp.
But, ‘Sit up,’ Dad said, ‘if you’re able ... and take
those ELBOWS off the table.’
© Lyn
Hurry