{"id":585,"date":"2020-10-21T14:56:49","date_gmt":"2020-10-21T13:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/pk\/poetryforall\/?page_id=585"},"modified":"2020-10-21T22:12:58","modified_gmt":"2020-10-21T21:12:58","slug":"the-bag","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/pk\/poetryforall\/our-table-poems-2\/the-bag\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bag"},"content":{"rendered":"

I<\/span>t comes ho<\/span><\/i>me<\/span><\/i>\u00a0from a long day of school,<\/span><\/i>
\n<\/span>It gets dumped onto the floor by a child.<\/span>
\n<\/span>Still inside<\/span>,<\/span>\u00a0a\u00a0<\/span>pencil<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>case<\/span>\u00a0full of things,\u00a0<\/span>
\n<\/span>A\u00a0<\/span>lunchbox\u00a0<\/span>and hand<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>sanitiser<\/span>,<\/span>
\n<\/span>A<\/span>\u00a0mask\u00a0<\/span>and a<\/span>\u00a0BUNCH of HOMEWORK!<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>Her worries about school melt away\u00a0<\/span>as she sits down<\/span>,<\/span>
\n<\/span>L<\/span>ooking at her heavy bag<\/span>.<\/span>
\n<\/span>L<\/span>ittle by\u00a0<\/span>little<\/span>\u00a0she forgets 6×8 is still waiting to be solved<\/span>,<\/span>
\n<\/span>A<\/span>nd ninjas,\u00a0<\/span>
\n<\/span>A<\/span>ll the chats with her friends.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>But the thing she most wants to forget<\/span>,<\/span>
\n<\/span>A<\/span>ll the annoying songs that she has had in her head<\/span>,<\/span>
\n<\/span>ALL DAY LONG!<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>She could smell the food being cooked from the kitchen as she did her BUNCH of\u00a0<\/span>HOMEWORK<\/span>.<\/span>
\n<\/span>S<\/span>he wishes she had done her homework a different day.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Each day the pile grows and grows<\/span>,<\/span>
\n<\/span>S<\/span>ome days heavier than\u00a0<\/span>others<\/span>.<\/span>
\n<\/span>B<\/span>ut the bag doe<\/span>s<\/span>\u00a0not\u00a0<\/span>mind<\/span>,<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>
\n<\/span>I<\/span>n<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>fact<\/span>,<\/span>\u00a0it does not say a peep<\/span>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

B<\/span>ut what she\u00a0<\/span>does n<\/span>ot realise <\/span>is\u00a0<\/span>how much her bag do<\/span>es\u00a0<\/span>for her.<\/span>
\n<\/span>But then again life goe<\/span>s on.<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

T<\/span>he pile\u00a0<\/span>of papers, thoughts, dreams and\u00a0<\/span>memories<\/span>
\n<\/span>G<\/span>rows\u00a0<\/span>and grows,<\/span>
\n<\/span>I<\/span>n the coldest days in winter<\/span>
\n<\/span>To\u00a0<\/span>the hottest days in summer.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

By Jasmine\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It comes home\u00a0from a long day of school, It gets dumped onto the floor by a child. Still inside,\u00a0a\u00a0pencil\u00a0case\u00a0full of things,\u00a0 A\u00a0lunchbox\u00a0and hand\u00a0sanitiser, A\u00a0mask\u00a0and a\u00a0BUNCH of HOMEWORK!\u00a0 \u00a0Her worries about school melt away\u00a0as she sits down, Looking at her heavy bag. Little by\u00a0little\u00a0she forgets 6×8 is still waiting to be solved, And ninjas,\u00a0 All the … Continue reading The Bag<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10578,"featured_media":0,"parent":181,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-585","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/pk\/poetryforall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/pk\/poetryforall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/pk\/poetryforall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/pk\/poetryforall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/pk\/poetryforall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=585"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/pk\/poetryforall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":723,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/pk\/poetryforall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/585\/revisions\/723"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/pk\/poetryforall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/pk\/poetryforall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}