The Yard Poem
By Philip EdwardsWe've got a playground in our school,
rectangular and boring.
It leaves us every break time,
underwhelmed and snoring.
Yet here within this prison yard
there's a plot with some potential
but it lacks degrees of flatness
a trait that's so essential.
If only we could reach the top,
upon a riskless pathway.
To sit upon a picnic bench,
feeling happy all the day.
An orchard, now that would be nice,
besides a water feature,
anticipating Autumn thoughts
of apples for the teacher.
A windmill for our Eco School,
to power a little fountain.
Bring interest to the uninspired
upon our lofty mountain.
Please help us manifest our dreams.
Please help our aspirations.
Please bring joy and happiness
to this deathly dull location.
But just in case our quest doth fail,
plan B progresses daily.
A devious and cunning scheme
engineered precisely.
Our tunnel's now twelve metres long,
shored up with chairs and tables
and soon we'll all escape this place
that intellect disables.