POEMS BY ROBERT ASHA: The Journey, The Last Shall Be First, Sneaking Glances, Change
The Journey
Spirit Body, Hand-drawn digitally coloured image, Archival ink limited edition print, dimensions variable. ©2018 Robert AshaNot everything
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THERE’S NO SUCH THING AS NAUGHTY: The end of naughty
Adult: So what is it that grown-ups do to make children feel bad?Child: Smack them, shout at them, and make them sit on the naughty step, or make them do so...
THERE’S NO SUCH THING AS NAUGHTY: The perfectly imperfect everything
Child: We have to have rules and laws and the police and judges to stop grow-ups from being naughty, don’t we?Adult: When someone breaks the rules or the la...
THERE’S NO SUCH THING AS NAUGHTY: No more naughty!
Adult: What do you think happens to naughty children who become naughty grown-ups?Child: The bad people go to prison, don’t they?Prisons are full of peo...
THERE’S NO SUCH THING AS NAUGHTY: Naughty grows up
Adult: We don’t call grown-ups naughty, do we?Child: We say they’re bad people who do bad things to people, such as burglars and people who hurt children or...
THERE’S NO SUCH THING AS NAUGHTY: Believing in naughty is naughty
Adult: Why do you think grown-ups tell children they’re naughty and punish them?Child: So they won’t do something that they did again.They think the chi...
THERE’S NO SUCH THING AS NAUGHTY: The boy who didn’t want to be alone
Child: There once was a little boy named Joe. He was three years old—nearly four, actually—so he thought he wasn’t a little boy anymore. In fact, he thought he ...
POEMS BY COLIN JAMES: Teaching Emergency Awareness, Disproving Infinity, A Comparison to the Particulate
Teaching Emergency Awareness
The smaller the room the better.
A medium-sized cardboard box will do.
Hand the equipment in to me
through a flap pulled down o...
ET IN ARCADIA EGO: A narrative poem about nature, adventure and tragedy by Andrew Hunter
It started with two smiles.
Backpacks zipped with metal clasps glistening
in the crisp winter air;
frosted fragrance on hard studded tires.With roadmaps ...