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Tony Mitton
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This poem is not for children.Keep Out!
There is a big oak door
in front of this poem.
It’s locked.
And on the door is a notice
in big red letters.
It says: Any child who enters here
will never be the same again.
WARNING. KEEP OUT.
But what’s this?
A key in the keyhole.
And what’s more,
nobody’s about.
“Go on. Look,”
says a little voice
inside your head.
“Surely a poem
cannot strike you dead?”
You turn the key.
The door swings wide.
And then you witness
what’s inside.
And from that day
you’ll try in vain.
You’ll never be the same again.
© 1998, Tony Mitton
From: Plum
Publisher: Scholastic, London
From: Plum
Publisher: Scholastic, London
Tony Mitton
(Tripolitania, 1951)
Tony Mitton was born in North Africa. At the age of nine he came to England and attended a State boarding school in Suffolk. He gained an English Literature degree from Cambridge University. After a spell of secondary school teaching, he moved to the primary sector where he taught for about 20 years. He is now a full-time writer and visits schools, libraries and festivals to perform his work.
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This poem is not for children.Keep Out!
There is a big oak door
in front of this poem.
It’s locked.
And on the door is a notice
in big red letters.
It says: Any child who enters here
will never be the same again.
WARNING. KEEP OUT.
But what’s this?
A key in the keyhole.
And what’s more,
nobody’s about.
“Go on. Look,”
says a little voice
inside your head.
“Surely a poem
cannot strike you dead?”
You turn the key.
The door swings wide.
And then you witness
what’s inside.
And from that day
you’ll try in vain.
You’ll never be the same again.
From: Plum
Forbidden Poem
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