Year 5 – The Mirror of Despair

“The Mirror of Despair”

On the wall, there is also the mirror of despair! This always shows what you fear most of all happening.

Once again, the poem is written by Pie Corbett, and he has written his ideas using the same pattern. He has kept some of characters the same as in his ‘Mirror of Wishes‘ poem, but changed some of them.

The Mirror of Despair

The teacher looked into the mirror

And saw children throwing paper airplanes.

A sailor looked into the mirror

And saw a tsunami approaching.

Here is Chloe’s poem:

A childminder looked into the mirror

And saw a messy home.

A car salesman looked into the mirror

And saw loads of abandoned cars on the roads.

A groomer looked into the mirror

And saw 1,000,000,000 dogs with fleas and matts.

A golfer looked into the mirror

And saw his favourite golf course flooded.

A doctor looked into the mirror

And saw a lot of sick people.

The Prime Minister looked into the mirror

And saw his country at war.

Here is Jack’s poem:

An illustrator looked into the mirror

And saw a book with no pictures in.

A footballer looked into the mirror

And saw a World Cup being cancelled.

An athlete looked into the mirror

And saw him accidentally wearing bright pink in the finals.

A policeman looked into the mirror

And saw all the bad guys escaping from prison.

An paleontologist looked into the mirror

And saw himself failing to find any dinosaur bones.

A race driver looked into the mirror

And saw himself crashing on his first race.