NorthLondonSaint, I really don't mind you telling us your opinion, and I know the little guy isn't going to read your quotes. But he's my brother and your comments were just a bit disrespectful.
i took economics for a year but dropped out as i couldn't keep up with the work. I actually got an A in English Lit a level, But no i do not have a PhD, And im currently working for Barnet Football club as a ticket salesman, With plans on joining the army in the next year. Does that answer your question?
You've actually made me feel quite bad now, i was hoping for a more argumentative reply but now i just feel like a scumbag, My sincere apologises
Glory be. You have proven human. Your views on poetry are as valid as anyone's, of course. Your apology for the way you expressed them makes you a Saint!
10 year old is year 5 right? This is pretty normal for a 10 year old. Obviously you get a few clever little kids and the section of thick ones too. This is plain average though. A pat on the back and a bit of encouragement. Not really worthwhile for a football forum in my opinion.
Yeah, like you say, Year 5. He has time to improve, and while others seem to like it, you may not. All cool with me, poetry is matter of opinion.
Good on the lad, maybe he could do one for Nigel Adkins next. in comparison i managed to get hold of a poem from a young lad in year 5 in a Portsmouth school. It read kljskdhre jkjhet lpoiu nswbwhet yrrsbsdk pojegtbaz qqqwassd, bncvbnbfhj, oiyyds poobum.
Excelent!! Certainly beats my 5 year old daughter coming home from school yesterday singing 'Play up Pompey'!! Seems that the boys in her class have finally turned her from singing 'Red & White Barmy Army'!! I knew the day would come, was just hoping it wouldn't happen in Year R :-(
With apologies to Sir John Betjeman. Come friendly bombs fall on North End That place it drives me round the bend There isn't room to walk straight on Swarm over death Come bombs and blow it all quite flat The cheap shops selling nought but tat Pound fruit, Pound meat, Pound milk Pound beans And Pound fresh breath
That's really rather good PM, as you haven't just changed the place from Slough to Pompey. I don't think Betjeman would have objected. Next time I'm in St Enodoc, I'll ask.
What a load of ****e. No wonder our country is falling behind at the rate it is. I would expect that from a year 1/2 student at most.
Can 5 year olds read and write to that standard then GG? Also, wouldn't such a student be called a 6 month student, rather than a year 1/2?
Me thinks he was talking about year 1 or 2 however stupid his remarks are. lol Let me put this to the pooh poohers. Say a young player, let's call him Master A Lallana for arguments sake is aged 10. He scores his first goal which is quite average for his age and the manager tells him nice goal but not worth the amount of celebrating you did. A young mast Lallana walks away after the game despondent and from thereon doesn't develop as he could have given some praise and encouragement!!! Imagine a Saints goal at St Mary's. it goes off a Saint's player's shin, hits his chin and goes in after another deflection off a defender's nose. The crowd goes wild. 'Come on you reds they chant enthusiastically. 'And it's Southampton FC, by far the greatest team the world has ever seen' They bleat out. The team hears the crowd, They are encouraged by their support, the team goes onto win the game and come to applaud the fans. Now I am not saying the poem is from a Poet Laureatte but it is good. It can be chimed out, it has heart and feeling. It is good. Reminds me of an argument over Art I had with a Bulgarian. He stated on a forum that to know what true Art is you have to have the specific education to be able to recognise it. I responded that everyone is able to discern what Art is. that is what Art is all about. The viewer (or reader in our case) is the only one who can decide what Art is to them, whereas those who are educated to critique Art often just use poetry to try and suggest their critique is fact and should be taken as such. Artists such as Emin and Hurst stumble on anything and then use poetry to try and suggest what it means. Its a stuffed sheep, nothing more than that however the poetry you used to try and suggest it was Art was quite good. It's an unmade bed, nothing else but again, nice listening to your poetry telling us the supposed meaning behind it. I suggested to this Bulgarian that my 6 year old had produced the painting below. I said It is Art, the moment I saw it I recognised it even though it was by a 6 year old. He said it isn't Art, it is 'a child's scribble' and nothing more. I asked him if by his suggestion Van Gogh's paintings were therefore just 'an adult's scribble'. And yes more 'educated' Art crtic poetry flowed back into the debate from the qualified chap. Make your own mind up. Is this Art or is it just a child's scribble? Whichever way you decide it is still Art to me and that is all that matters. It is framed and hung on my hallway with other 'works of Art' from my children. Lots of garbage but some pieces leave me in awe of what a child can produce and how it can make us feel. So to many of us it is a good poem. To others it isn't however sensitivity should be used when it something a child has done because encouragement drives the Artist forward whether it be a young footballer, an artist, a poet or anything else Make up your minds, you are free to do so as me spitting will not pass through my screen to yours, remember this was done by my 6 year old just after his 6th birthday : please log in to view this image
Gecko Why change your name. Joey B smellt as sweet I has awaited with bated breath your contribution Cos i knew it would bring no retribution To your normal ire we would be treated No e-mail or warning tweeted Just say it as it is, it's all bad Life for you must be really sad A kid writes a poem, it must be torn apart Cos we might think that you have a heart
