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Home Blog Rob Walton, ‘Jeremy Micklethwaite’

Rob Walton, ‘Jeremy Micklethwaite’

November 29, 2022
About Rob Walton:
Rob Walton is a writer, performer and teacher from Scunthorpe. He now lives in Whitley Bay, where he writes poetry and fiction for children and adults.  His poetry for children has been published by Tyger Tyger, The Toy and The Dirigible Balloon, and features in various print anthologies published by, among others, The Emma Press, Bloomsbury, Frances Lincoln, Dreich and Macmillan. He works part-time as a primary school teacher at the same school he joined over twenty years ago.

 

Jeremy Micklethwaite went to bed

and thought he heard the terrible tread

of the thing that always frightened him.

 

Jeremy Micklethwaite went to bed

and worried that he hadn’t said

goodnight to those so dear to him.

 

Jeremy Micklethwaite went to bed

pulled the pillow over his head

so nothing could get near him.

 

Jeremy Micklethwaite went to bed

fretted from A right through to Z

of the perils that might befall him.

 

Jeremy Micklethwaite didn’t go to bed

faced his fears and looked ahead

with his fingers crossed behind him.

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