Chido's musings

Five-year-old  poet and short-story writer Chido Sowa

My friend Mary has the most adorable daughter ever! Her name is Chido, five years old, and she fancies herself a writer and poetJ. I’m keeping my ears to the ground she will bring us a Pulitzer Prize one day.  Here is some of her work, with very minimal editing to preserve the aesthetic quality of Chido's musings.

A poem about queens

Queens are royal because they have crowns and money

Like Queen Boudicca, Queen Elizabeth and all queens in the world

My mummy is the queen of the house and I am the princiss

A poem about planets

There are nine planets

Their names are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars,

Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto

Those are the planets

Some are bad for you.

You can’t breathe and some you can

Some are dark and have moons

The best of all is Earth

I love Earth

All the planets lit my earthly sky in winter

I love doing poems

A poem about my family

My family is nice

When I have a mess they help me.

When I need them to help me with something that’s hard

They help me

Cut your paper

Make a rose

Make and blow

Make sure it fly like a kite

Put a hole for the ribbon

And it fly all around the place and world

To the top of the cloud

Like a boat

Floating around the world

 Let's see who manages to make sense of the story below :). I did!

A Story about Charlie the Chick

Once upon a time where was a chick called Chalie one day he went out on the farm he said this “maybe I should go for a walk then when mummy Hen wake 123456 where is Charlie. “oh I have to find  Charlie maybe  Mr Fox ate him he is trap maybe I ask Mrs donkey kid stay here and off she went Mrs donkey “have you seen Charlie yes where is he in that  party over there thank you but there come Mr fox he going to eat there there’s a trap that let him step on it it to late let do another trap yeah it worked come on Charlie OK mum don’t do that Charlie OK but I wanted a walk but you have to tell me OK I won’t do it again a were are you going for a walk no OK mum thank you