Gylemuir Primary School Poetry Project

Gylemuir Primary School Poetry Project

In June, Edinburgh Park’s Poet in Residence, Janette Ayachi, worked with the P4 children at Gylemuir Primary School.

Over the course of two days, a school workshop, and a visit to see the art at Edinburgh Park, over 40 pieces of poetry and writing were collected from the children.

A renga (collective poem) has been created from the submissions.

An odd shape, reaching to the sky, as bumpy as a road.

I move with the wind. Look at the flowers.

It is as stretchy as a string to America.

Looks like a giraffe's head.

It is whole. It echoes. It is rust like a fungus.

It is as fiery as the sun.

Born at the same time as me —

an electrik flower.

The flowers make me flow & fill with joy.

They are firm & cannot be knocked down.

As I cross my legs, I go upside down.

It's as scary as a tornado.

It’s as red as a red ant.

Red as a strawberry & fun to play on!

He is a villain & he’s going to take over the world —

a man made of rocks, bricks & shaped metal!

It walks & jumps on a waterfall, splashing it with joy!

Part-man, part-Lego, part-machine —

a monster calling out for something.

It sounds like someone falling off a cliff.

How I feel: I feel like it’s rough, alive, or angry.

There is a ghost inside the pot & it’s telling me to come inside.

Bro slept for more than a hundred years.

It is as deadly as ashes.

I found a special flower beside the parrot cup.

It makes me feel calm.

As the water turns blue, the daffodils bloom in the sky.

I love everything.

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