Mixed Messages—a National Poetry Day poem


Mixed Messages by Dom Conlon

This year’s National Poetry Day theme is ‘MESSAGES’. I’ve written a very special poem to mark the occasion but I have also been asked to write a poem which isn’t even finished!

And so I need your help!

Have a read of my ‘Mixed Messages’ poem below and write as many verses as you like. Special marks go to anyone who can finish it off with a clever ending!

Mixed Messages

I should have sent a message in a bottle
Not a rabbit in a jar,
Now the message isn’t sending
But the rabbit’s going far.

I should have sent a message in a bottle
Not a donkey in a jacket,
Now the message isn’t sending
And the donkey cannot hack it.

I should have sent a message in a bottle
Not a…


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