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Wisp the Wasp - a Mini-Beast Rhyming Poem for Children
By Josie
07 May 2008

Wisp the Wasp feels dreadfully unloved.  Ahhhhh!



              

                Our mother’s making jam today –
  
                   There’s fruit just everywhere
               The smell goes through the window  
                  And it fills the summer air.
 

            The smell of jam hits father’s nose
  
                
Upon the summer breeze
            And someone else has noticed it  
               
From high up in the trees.
 

               Wisp the wasp likes sweet things -  
                  Well, just like you and I -
               And mother’s jam’s delicious  
                  As no-one can deny.
 

               Wisp the wasp now sets to work;
  
                  She flies down from the tree,
               And there in mother’s kitchen   
                Oh!
Just what does she see?
 

               Six jars of lovely strawberry jam
  
                  
All lined up on display.
               She flies in through the window  
                  
But to her big dismay - - - - -
 

                Our mother shouts “Look out!  A wasp”
  
                   The children shout out too
                 And someone hits poor Wisp the wasp -    
                     There’s nothing left to do - - -
 

               But  fly out through the window for 
  
                  
“I'll get back to my tree.
               "But with so much strawberry jam in there –  
                   Why don’t they share with me?”
  

 




Copyright 2008
  
www.whiteheadm.co.uk

Reviews

Written by Fledermaus (3159 comments posted) 7th May 2008
Probably because she's armed and dangerous. Which once again proves that weapons provoke aggression. Had she been a butterfly or a bumblebee the reaction might have been different.

Written by mia_ms_kim (891 comments posted) 7th May 2008
That last stanza made me feel so sorry for the insect. Her lament made me feel that we human beings are so selfish and uncaring and greedy (probably because we often are???) Maybe this sort of poem will teach the children to be more generous and share with others who have less. 
Mia 8)

Written by PuppyWuppy (15 comments posted) 10th May 2008
Really clever. It makes you feel guilty for trapping wasps under a pint glass till they suffocate :cry . Very powerful and interesting- it will definitly make me think twice about trapping all bugs again!

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