Some of the Poetry Created by a writing group at Foxyards School, as part of the 'Football Focus' project.  The group worked with Peter Wynne-Willson over a series of sessions in 2002.

I WENT TO MERRY HILL AND I SAW

A SECURITY GUARD, GUARDING BURGER KING, AS A LION WATCHES HIS PREY

PUSHCHAIRS ROLLING LIKE BOWLING BALLS IN AN ALLEY

JUDGES JUDDERING AS IF THEY’D HAD ELECTRIC SHOCKS

LIFTS ZOOMING UP AND DOWN LIKE 'APOCALYPSE'

AND SHOPS DISPLAYING, LIKE BOASTING COLLECTORS SHOWING OFF THEIR STUFF

By Kelly, Kayleigh, Rachel, Chris, Beth, Sarah, Victoria, Greg, William, Alisha, Stevie, Sam and Peter.

Floods

Gigantic swimming pools burst with water gushing out

Water gurgling in endless swirling whirlpool circles

A big baby crying for his ‘me-me’

A wrinkled woman weeping for five years

The pool of blood of a melted ice-giant

The sun sweats, and

Nature throws her blanket on the earth

Whole Foxyards Group

There once was a man with cheesy feet,

He always looked good enough to eat,

His name was Foody Fredric, or Fred to his mates,

He worked in a restaurant, washing up plates

He was always in trouble because he was slow,

Only because his limbs were made of dough.

One day a customer complained of his feet,

Which made him go red in his tomato cheeks

When the man saw his pear nose and banana eyebrows

He decided to end the stupid row

He started to smile when he saw the meringue eyes

Poor old Fedric was in for a surprise

Fred began to rub his prickly stubbly pea chin

But the man knew only one o them would win

Fred’s piggy knees began to shake

He knew he would end up on the man’s plate

The man whipped out a spoon and a carton of cream,

Through Fred’s sausage was heard a scream

Chris

Foody Frederick is a chef

He looks delicious

He has:

             A sausage mouth,

             Some meringue shaped eyes,

             A nice fresh half pear nose,

             A BIG!  Prickly stubbly pea chin.

             Some delicious red half tomato cheeks,

             2 identical yellow cartoon cheese feet,

             2 long stretchy french stick arms,

             Some half baguettes for his legs.

             Pig-trotters for his knobbly knees,

             And last of all 2 yummy half banana            

             Eyebrows.

Guess what happened to him?

A dog came into the shop and ate him all up!

I bet he was delicious.            

YUM!  YUM!

BY

                        Stevie Ann

Foody Frederick’s

A walking picnic

Food does gush

Down a sausage mush!

That greengrocer’s boy’s

More sauce than soy

He’s got cheesy feet

That aren’t very neat!

His French stick arms

Pack quite a punch

You wouldn’t want them

For your lunch

His half-pear nose

Is cold and wet

He hasn’t had a chance

To wipe it yet

If you ate him

He’d make you sick

That walking picnic

Foody Fredrick

Greg

WHEN I FIRST RODE A HORSE

The first day I got in the saddle,

My heart started to race

My stomach started churning,

The room was a blur of colour

I was deaf to everything but my instructor,

In my head I could here a screaming of

Don’t look down! Don’t look down!

I started to walk around the indoor arena,

My horse was as cool as anything

But I was scared silly.

I suddenly looked down and

My head started spinning, I was feeling sick,

Then suddenly my head started to clear

My heart started to slow,

 My stomach stopped churning

And I finally got down.

My instructor was really pleased

For I had stayed in the saddle so long,

And completed trot

My legs felt weak, but also so stiff,

I lead my horse outside

Paid my money and got in the car

And my final words were

“ I will come back soon!”

                                      by BETH

LOVE

LOVE IS A BIG RED HEART

AND IT WALKS ROUND

GOING

“OH I’VE GOT A CRUSH ON HIM.”

“OH I’VE GOT A CRUSH ON HER.”

WHAT DOES HE LOOK LIKE?

2 MASSIVE EYES

1 ENORMOUS MOUTH

NO NOSE

AND 2 VAST RED FEET.

AND THAT IS THE END OF

LOVE!!!!!!!!!!

Kayleigh

HAIKUS 

MY SCHOOL UNIFORM

My school uniform

Is green and yellow and black

I like it lots.

Tipton

My town is quite good

but it is polluted lots

I really like it.

Boredom.

Boredom walked through the door,

It had red eyes staring blankly at the air.

It looked as poor as a beggar man,

Dressed in rags with long matted hair.

Suddenly, it picked up a pencil-case ,

And ate it like meat.

It even ate a chair,

Now that was a daring feat.

Boredom is as bored as a board,

It’s official!!!!!

By Rachel-Sarah

Dedicated to Beth .

When David was born

I went into the hospital,

I felt really amazed when I saw Mom holding a tiny baby boy.

My heart nearly stopped when Mom asked if I would want to hold the baby.

I hardly moved, but I managed to say “O.K.”

He felt really soft and he smelt of talcum powder.

He snuggled up to me, then I sat on the bed and gave him back to Mom.

Then David (my baby brother) urinated on Mom’s lap.

I laughed ,so did Jacob and Dad.

Mom started to shout at me and Jacob,

But Dad got off,

Maybe he would pay Mom some money if she didn’t tell him off.

By Rachel-Sarah

CORFU

I went to Corfu and saw

A friendly cat, softly walking in and out of our room.

Two big pubs standing still like a brick wall.

Three different jeeps like a rainbow.

Four children playing like babies.

Five palm trees with breeze flowing through the leaves.

By Kelly 

                                                I went to school and I saw…

             One cracking computer room

             Two modelling mobiles

             Three playful playground

             Four fabulous phones

             Five talking Teachers

Sam

I went to TESCO AND SAW

A SECURITY GUARD PROWLING AROUND LIKE A TIGER 

A COUPLE OF SHOPLIFTERS INNOCENTLY CREEPING OUT LIKE A FOX 

A TRIPLE TOY GABBLING AWAY LIKE A PARROT 

SOME TELEVISIONS ADVERTISING DUSTERS JUST LIKE A HUMAN BEING 

A FEW TILLS PINGING AS THEY ARE OPENED LIKE A BOW AND ARROW BEING FIRED

I WENT TO MY COUSIN'S HOUSE AND I SAW

ONE Malicious Mark

TWO Preposterous Parents

THREE Karate kids

FOUR Silly sofas

FIVE Foreign Frogs

Greg

I WENT TO TIPTON AND I SAW….

ONE SHIMMERING MASSIVE SCHOOL

TWO TINY TOY SHOPS

THREE PAINTED PORK PIE PUBS

FOUR CRAZY CRASHED CARS

FIVE POOR PRETTY PEOPLE

I went to Bewdley and I saw...

One terrible, terrifying train,

Two shimmering, static stations,

Three poor, preposterous parents,

Four frisky, frightened station masters,

Five crazy, charred cafés.

By Rachel-Sarah

                        School is like…

School is like an airport              

People zooming from maths

Teachers are like hijackers stopping us from running

But you might as well take your time     

Because you don’t want to go

To the next airport

HIGHSCHOOL!!!

School is like a supermarket

Calculators would be tills

Teachers would be shop assistants

Kids hate shopping just as much as school

Clocks would be security cams

Do not get caught

But the easy way is be GOOD!!!

What if?

What if Beth turned into a karate master?

What if my bed turned into Dave Lister?

What if Beth turns into a sink?

What if a dragon ate the queen and king?

What if everyone suddenly appeared on Mars?

What if Earth blew up and people had to live on Mars?

What if my bath turned into a roller coaster?

What if everything stays the same?

By Rachel-Sarah

Dedicated to Beth

If the moon were a football….

The crowd of stars fills the Galaxy Stadium,

For the big match

The Milky Way Wanderers versus Pluto Baggies in the Universal Space Cup

Little Bear and Great Bear make the goalposts, twinkling against the

The pitch black sky pitch. 

As comets rain down like toilet rolls.

The moon spins up towards the floodlight sun

The teams of planets are against each other

Star Taylor to Mercury Owen,

on down the wing,

passes inside to Uranus Shearer, heads it on to Pluto Sheringham, a quick one two with Jupiter Beckham,

he shoots,

Saturn Scholes gets the rebound and its in……

Foody Fredrick.

I had a mate called Foody Fredrick.

He had a sausage mouth,

 afresh half pear nose,

french stick arms,

half banana eyebrows,

his knees were pig trotters!

He had red half tomato cheeks,

And meringue shaped eyes.

He also had cartoon cheese feet,

And a prickly, stubbly pea chin.

Once he walked into a restaurant,

The chef fried him for dinner!

                                                               Foody Fredrick

             Foody Fredrick has got a sausage mouth

             He’s got a half pear nose,

             Foody Fredrick has got half tomato cheeks,

             And also half banana eye brows.

             Foody Fredrick has got meringue shaped eyes

             He’s got pig trotters for knees,

             Foody Fredrick has got a stubbly pea chin

             And for his feet he’s got cartoon cheese.

Sam