John Marsden Writing Topic #354
These are all the common words that rhyme with ‘-aked’: ached, baked, faked, caked, flaked, slaked, snaked, raked, braked, quaked. Write a rhyming poem using some or all of these words.**
Fateful Fete
Mrs Slater baked
for the school fete
her sincerity, she faked,
she wished she had flaked
on the fete,
something she preferred
for all school events.
Over the years
of her career,
her enthusiasm slaked.
Her students weren’t stupid,
they could see this for themselves,
they thought she had snaked her way to the top,
just to stay there and do nothing.
With all of their might
they started a food fight.
The teachers’ power quaked,
loose hell braked
Mrs Slater really got caked!
At the end of it all,
Mrs Slater drew the short straw
and literally got her just desserts,
her back ached
as she raked,
the remnants
of her enthusiasm
of her professionalism
and soul,
retirement a not-too-distant goal.
**Reference: Marsden J 1998, Everything I Know About Writing, Pan Macmillan, Australia.
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