Poems and trees and posters and words
Friday, 8 October 2004 12:45 pmWhen I was little we had a poem on the back of our loo door. It was a green poster with drawings of trees and the poem... I thought I could remember which poem it was, and it might have been part of 'The Garden' by Andrew Marvell, the bit with 'annihilating all that's made/to a green thought in a green shade'. But it might not have been as the rest of that stanza is somewhat over the heads of six-to-nine-year-olds, which would have been my age at the time.
But it was a lovely poster, and I want some poem posters for my loo. We have a big slan of wood right in front of the toilet, and I don't want to put my nice postcards on there because they will go wrinkly and fall off and get trodden on and yucky.
Anyone know where to get attractive posters with poems on? The kind of thing English teachers put up in schools.
(The alternative is that I practice my best handwriting and write some things out myself on flipchart paper, and then decorate them a bit - but somehow that wouldn't be quite right.)
But it was a lovely poster, and I want some poem posters for my loo. We have a big slan of wood right in front of the toilet, and I don't want to put my nice postcards on there because they will go wrinkly and fall off and get trodden on and yucky.
Anyone know where to get attractive posters with poems on? The kind of thing English teachers put up in schools.
(The alternative is that I practice my best handwriting and write some things out myself on flipchart paper, and then decorate them a bit - but somehow that wouldn't be quite right.)