This is one of the first poems I ever wrote in primary school.

I was in year 5 and we were asked to write about an ‘Animile’ – a made up creature. This one fell out of nowhere and for some reason these words have etched their way into my memory some four decades later.

Amooshka Aliooshka has a funny old nose
 She has funny old feet
 And funny old toes
 Whenever she tries to give a great smile
 Her nose goes ‘ka-plonk’
 And she falls in a pile
 She goes hippety-clonk right down the main street
 With warts on her fingers
 and moles on her feet
 Every morning at dawn she gets up with a yawn
 To play with her children
 Upon the soft lawn
 Every night after dinner when all have been fed
 She kisses their cheeks
 And sends them to bed
 So you see Amooshka Aliooshka is a nice Animile
 And she’s always say hello
 With a jolly big smi….    ‘ka-plonk!!!'
  
 

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