School Poems to eBooks

I was going through my old school stuff and came across some work I had put away because of how proud I was of it at the time. I showed it to my father who suggested I share it on HubPages. I was in Year 7 and about twelve years old when I wrote My Magic Box. It was an assignment set by my English teacher. He read a poem called My Magic Box by Kit Wright to the class and asked us to write a poem about all the precious things we would put in our own magic boxes.

In my box I will put

The first smile of a baby

A day that never dies

The first snowflake of winter

Alexander the Great’s sword

The heartbeat of the world

My first kiss

In my box you will also find

The ring from Mount Doom

A white feather from an angel’s wing

The words from Muhammad Ali’s lips

The roar of a tsunami

My dreams and achievements

And my family’s laughter

My box is made from

A deep mahogany, which is covered with golden sand from the Gobi desert

It is also covered with ice, fire and lava

The hinges are made from volcanic rock

It roars with emotion

Now I will relax in my box of dreams,

Travel round the world and go back in time to visit the ancient Egyptians and find out their great secrets of the world

Writing this poem was my first experience of delving into another world, a world of fantasy and magic where I could say how I felt without being too obvious. The assignment made me think about all the things I could be grateful for in my life and I suppose made me realise what were the important things in my life. I like that twelve year old boy and I am proud of the choices he made then. Those choices he made have made me the man I am today!