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Mark Bird

@dreambeastpoems.bsky.social

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I write poems for children & teens. Published in Macmillan anthologies and several others. I'm also a teacher 📕 🦘My picture book, Out Now: The Klangaroo https://t.ly/TdXh- My Website & Blog: dreambeastpoems.com

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Mark Bird @dreambeastpoems.bsky.social · Aug 28

I made a video of my latest children's book today & put it on YouTube. It's called The Klangaroo. I'd love more subscribers. Fellow poets and educators, can you help? 🙏 #kangaroos #KangarooStoryForKids 🦘 #RobotStoryForKids 🤖 @eyfs2025.bsky.social #klanagaroo

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A Robot Kangaroo Story For Kids: The Klangaroo Out Now

YouTube video by Mr Dreambeast

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Mark Bird @dreambeastpoems.bsky.social · 4m

Nothing takes you back, forwards and in between - shakes you up and down and into space like music #music #poetrycommunity #lastnightonearth

Mark Bird @dreambeastpoems.bsky.social · 1h

Fellow poetry friends, I'm trying to breathe new life into my old Youtube channel. I need more subscribers. Please help x

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Football Poem for Kids: Substitute Me. Metaphor Poem for Kids.

YouTube video by Inspiring Poems For Kids & Students

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Mark Bird @dreambeastpoems.bsky.social · 2h

It’s only 2 degrees
said the man
up to his knees
in broken banks
and angry seas

#micropoetry

Mark Bird @dreambeastpoems.bsky.social · 1d

when the breeze blows right
embers of memories
reignite
orange
white hot

and time collapses

#sensewrds 132 #micropoetry

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Mark Bird @dreambeastpoems.bsky.social · 1d

I love where
@thetoypress.bsky.social
#wordoftheweek takes your brain. I've gone all #football #metaphors for this one When things don't work out, there's a #Substitute ready to come on in all of us. #sub #poems4kids

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Kay Medway @kaymedway.bsky.social · 6d

#wordoftheweek #writingcommunity #writingprompt #writingforchildren #poetrycommunity

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Mark Bird @dreambeastpoems.bsky.social · 2d

Oh those saucy trees
waved their nude branches at me
laughing at my scarf

#haiku #senryu

Mark Bird @dreambeastpoems.bsky.social · 2d

seventeen wide smiles
greet the teacher at the door
how wealthy they are

#senryu #haiku #teacher

Mark Bird @dreambeastpoems.bsky.social · 3d

many years ago
sand, grass, soil, dirt, waves, breeze, hope
lived between my toes

#haiku #haikufeels #micropoetry

Mark Bird @dreambeastpoems.bsky.social · 4d

On my first Sunday alive
I imagine, I smiled, gurgled and cried

On my most recent Sunday
My 2873rd on Earth
I made for Mum
her mum's hand-me-down
secret recipe
apple pie

#micropoetry #Blueskypoet #applepie #sunday

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Mark Bird @dreambeastpoems.bsky.social · 4d

how many Sundays
have we woken up within
each, a fingerprint

#haiku #poetry #micropoetry
#fantaiku
#2wordprompt
#haikusaturday #senryusunday
#inkmine #sunday
#vssdaily
#blueskyrelay #respite
#dailyhaikuprompt
#vss365 #fingerprint

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Mark Bird @dreambeastpoems.bsky.social · 7d

Thank you

Mark Bird @dreambeastpoems.bsky.social · 12d

I bloody love leaves

Mark Bird @dreambeastpoems.bsky.social · 12d

What is #Hope? I used to believe in it but I often wonder if I've been sold down the river #poetry #poetrycommunity #Blueskypoet #blueskypoetry

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Mark Bird @dreambeastpoems.bsky.social · 12d

What is Hope?

I used to believe in it but sometimes feel I'm being sold down the river. #hope #poetrycommunity #metaphor #metaphorpoetry

Mark Bird @dreambeastpoems.bsky.social · 15d

by all means
try to untangle your past
but remember
Now is where it’s at

#vss365 #vss #micropoetry #blueskypoet #life

Mark Bird @dreambeastpoems.bsky.social · 15d

It can and it will Robin 😍

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Mark Bird @dreambeastpoems.bsky.social · 15d

Some days at school are so tough. Anyone that says #teaching is easy, needs to go back to school. This is how I feel today #teacherlife #Teachers #TeachersDay2025 #teachersday

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Mark Bird @dreambeastpoems.bsky.social · 16d

It National Poetry Day on Thursday. The theme is #play so I wrote a poem inspired by
@thetoypress.bsky.social
#wordoftheweek that plays with words and ideas about #poets and the #poetrycommunity #playwithwords #poems4kids #words #recipeoftheweek #bake

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The Toy Press 🍩🦜🍑🌻🪐🛼 @thetoypress.bsky.social · 17d

Hello, here is your #wordoftheweek!

#writingcommunity #writingforchildren #writingprompt #poetryforkids #poetryforchildren #poetrycommunity #Kidlit

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Fran Moldaschl - When The Giants Passed Through @franmoldaschl.bsky.social · 17d

Re-sharing an old poem for this because it fits the theme and the seasonal vibes.

#writingcommunity #writingforchildren #writingprompt #poetryforkids #poetryforchildren #poetrycommunity #Kidlit

A screenshot of a poem which reads:

INTERGENERATIONAL RECIPE

Take apples,
Crumble topping,
Lashings of autumn spice.
Bake until
Golden topped, then
Gold-topped again,
Pour on cream.
Taste summer meadows
And promised snow days.
A balanced meal,
Suspended between seasons
And devoured with ready spoons.

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Kay Medway @kaymedway.bsky.social · 17d

#wordoftheweek #poetry #poem

The happiness I feel when we bake is
like a rollercoaster twisting track of orange behind us
on the beach,
as we dance on sand
similar to cake crumbs.

Bake
by Kay Medway

A cupcake case is a patterned dress-up coat
for a circle cake.

The bottom of a cake is a cuddle
of soft, golden, spongy trampolines.

A smaller icing circle is a face,
blushing with peach happiness,
shaped with carefree joy.
An edible icing art sticker-like sphere
in the icing, too,
is worn by the cake as a hat.

The happiness I feel when we bake is
like a rollercoaster twisting track of orange behind us
on the beach,
as we dance on sand
similar to cake crumbs.

Far away from the rollercoaster,
at night, in rain,
on the edge of a pier,
enjoyable as an experience
in glittering dodgem cars.

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Mark Bird @dreambeastpoems.bsky.social · 18d

Beautiful

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Doug @flip89db.bsky.social · Oct 18

LEANING ON A BROKEN WILLOW

#poem

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Mark Bird @dreambeastpoems.bsky.social · 18d

Glad to have a poem in both of these beauties