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Brian Moses
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Writer, children's poet, anthologist, percussionist.
website www. brianmoses.co.uk
Blog for teachers/children brian-moses.blogspot.com
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Happy Half-Century Birthday (one day late) to one of my all-time favorite albums.
November 13, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Out now! #BfK275, our seasonal special & it's a bumper issue: Books of the Year, unmissable gift guides incl #poetry & non-fiction. Authorgraph interview with Christopher Edge, Petr Horacek Windows into #Illustration, Nicolette Jones interviews Lauren Child 🎁🎁🎁

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Cover of the November issue of Books for Keeps featuring artwork by Lauren Child from her new book I am Wishing Every Minute for Christmas, listing the contents including Authorgraph interview with Christopher Edge, Windows into Illustration with Petr Horacek, and our unmissable Christmas gift guides.
November 13, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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I’m struggling a little bit mentally at the moment. I hope this poem brings you love and light, wherever you are. #poetrycommunity
November 13, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Daily poetry prompt: Take a look at a marble. What can you see? Shapes, colours, squiggles, swirls, images, reflections, patterns........... anything more? An exercise in imagination stretching. brian-moses.blogspot.com/2012/03/marb...
MARBLES
MARBLES Take a look at a marble. What can you see? Shapes, colours, squiggles, swirls, images, reflections, patterns........... anyth...
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November 13, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Teachers - if you find the ideas on my blog useful, there are 52 ideas for encouraging children to write, in my book ‘On Poetry Street’ plus advice on how to use them. Available in both hardback (£10.99)and paperback (£8.99). brian-moses.blogspot.com/2024/05/on-p...
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Welcome to the Ssssssnake Hotel
ON POETRY STREET (Shameless self promotion I know, but I do promote a lot of books by other poets too!) A hardback book, published by Scal...
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November 9, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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A.I.M. High days are really special. allowing enthusiastic young writers/scientists or mathematicians to work with professional tutors for a day. Why not try a taster day as a host school or join in with a session in a nearby venue. @authorsabroad.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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aily poetry prompt: What do you grumble about?

Our family are experts at grumbling.

We grumble about the dog
leaving muddy paw prints across the floor.

We grumble about the delivery man
and his thunderous knocks on our door…

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GRUMBLING Our family are experts at grumbling. We grumble about the dog leaving muddy paw prints across the floor. We grumble about t...
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November 10, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Nov 10-14 is #AntiBullying Week in the UK, and I’m grateful and proud to have a poem on the @brianmosespoet.bsky.social children’s poetry blog about this important topic.

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#kidlit #poetry #antibullyingweek
Purple and green background with text reading Anti-Bullying Week 2025! Power for Good #Antibullyingweek
November 10, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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Daily poetry prompt: Writing about the names of cats and dogs. brian-moses.blogspot.com/2025/01/cats...
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CATS...... Ginger likes to keep himself clean, Boris is always nasty and mean. Jude is often in a mood, Sybil is on the look out for food....
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November 11, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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aily poetry prompt: What do you grumble about?

Our family are experts at grumbling.

We grumble about the dog
leaving muddy paw prints across the floor.

We grumble about the delivery man
and his thunderous knocks on our door…

More here: brian-moses.blogspot.com/2025/06/grum...
Welcome to the Ssssssnake Hotel
GRUMBLING Our family are experts at grumbling. We grumble about the dog leaving muddy paw prints across the floor. We grumble about t...
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November 10, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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A.I.M. High days are really special. allowing enthusiastic young writers/scientists or mathematicians to work with professional tutors for a day. Why not try a taster day as a host school or join in with a session in a nearby venue. @authorsabroad.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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Teachers - if you find the ideas on my blog useful, there are 52 ideas for encouraging children to write, in my book ‘On Poetry Street’ plus advice on how to use them. Available in both hardback (£10.99)and paperback (£8.99). brian-moses.blogspot.com/2024/05/on-p...
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Welcome to the Ssssssnake Hotel
ON POETRY STREET (Shameless self promotion I know, but I do promote a lot of books by other poets too!) A hardback book, published by Scal...
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November 9, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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In WW2 a 19 year old sent his mother a poem. He sadly died; but the poem endured. It’s a long term favourite with our schools via ‘OD to Quality Writing 10-13’ .I’ve just heard it read out at the British Legion Festival on bbc.
John Magee lives on! www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/157986...
High Flight
Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings; Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth of sun-split clouds,—and done a hundred things You have...
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November 8, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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I am proud to offer my website as a FREE teaching resource - it includes lots of fun poetry and a bit of randomness. Do please help spread the word: www.joshuaseigal.co.uk #BookSky #EduSky #teaching #poetry
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Website of award-winning poet, author, performer and educator Joshua Seigal. Contains free poetry, and lots of information.
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November 8, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Writing ideas for Remembrance Day. brian-moses.blogspot.com/2023/11/for-...
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IDEAS FOR WRITING LINKED TO REMEMBRANCE DAY The Burwash War Memorial in East Sussex commemorates John Kipling, son of Rudyard Kipling, amon...
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November 6, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Daily poetry prompt: A November 5th writing activity for young children from @JThomasABC Plus poems by top children’s poets. brian-moses.blogspot.com/2024/11/nove...
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NOVEMBER 5th POEMS For KS1 (Copyright to all poems remains with their creators. My thanks to everyone who contributed) A Poetry Lesson fro...
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November 2, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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Teachers: If you are planning an Egyptian unit of study to celebrate the opening of the wonderful new museum of Egyptian artefacts in Cairo, there's a writing idea here that can be adapted for the Egyptian gods. (Good for Greeks & Romans too) brian-moses.blogspot.com/2016/01/if-i...
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November 1, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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Here’s a brilliant spooky poem for kids by @brianmosespoet.bsky.social for these days (and nights) leading up to Halloween 👻🎃
#kidlit #poetryforkids #poetry
Book spread on a wooden table with a coffee cup and gemstone, the book open to a page showing “Haunted House” poem by Brian Moses
October 29, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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On #WorldCitiesDay, remembering the lost kitty in New York City. brian-moses.blogspot.com/2021/01/new-... @PieCorbett
October 31, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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It's #RSPBFeedTheBirdsDay so here are some ideas for children's writing about our feathered friends. brian-moses.blogspot.com/2017/05/bird...
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BIRDS In the school grounds, listen to the sounds around you. Can you hear evidence of birds in the area? Are any birds visib...
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October 29, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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Daily poetry prompt: What have you never seen?

Never seen a hyena with a vacuum cleaner,
never seen a goat in a boat.
Never seen a pike on a motorbike
but I've seen an anaconda on a Honda.

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NEVER SEEN.... Never seen a hyena with a vacuum cleaner, never seen a goat in a boat. Never seen a pike on a motorbike but I've ...
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October 23, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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What would you like to see less of? Thank you, @brianmosespoet.bsky.social for this post and the thought-provoking prompt! I’m sure there are many things pupils would like to see less of.
October 23, 2025 at 5:34 AM
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Things I'd like to see less of:   a loss of make-believe,     like fairy encounters, brushes,   a Christmas Eve     of last-minute shopping rushes,   a situation     of a red flush of embarrassment blushes. I’d like to see less of these.   a circulation in winter     of colds and flus,   a watered-down paint box     with colour blues,   a work-out-what’s-gone-wrong     list of clues. I’d like to see less of these.   a disruption     of wet and windy weather gusts,   a rule book     of dos, don'ts, and musts,   a stumble     on a fashion runway of struts. I’d like to see less of these.   a bonfire’s     left-behind fumes,   an on-pause event     that never resumes,   a plan-maker     that only assumes. I’d like to see less of these.
October 23, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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Thanks to @thetoypress.bsky.social for their word of the week: Sub!

Here's my little offering.

#poetry #poetrycommunity #kidlit #poetryforkids #writingprompt
A Submarine Sandwich I’d love to eat a submarine sandwich While deep down beneath the sea Pickles, salami, tomato and cheese– The mermaids would envy me! I’d love to eat a submarine sandwich With toppings never lackin’ I’d gobble it up, and not share a crumb Not even with a kraken! I’d love to eat a submarine sandwich Complete with a side of chips And if a great white stopped by for a nosh I’d hide among sunken ships I’d love to eat a submarine sandwich Yes, that meal would do the trick There’s only one hitch in my little plan I always get so seasick! © Shaun Jex
October 21, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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The White House is asking people not to share pictures of the East Wing because it’s even worse today.
October 21, 2025 at 10:54 PM