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  JACK and THE BEANSTALK funny poem by Australian writer Graeme King - funny, sad, serious and romantic poems. Poems for children, nature and environment poems. ©kingpoetry2007.
 

JACK & THE BEANSTALK

a stonnet (a sonnet that tells a well-known story)

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So, Jack goes into town to sell the cow,

and comes back with some magic beans, somehow!

Mum chucks 'em, they grow overnight: kapow!

He climbs up to the castle in the air.

 

He cons the giant's missus for some food

then hides, the fee-fie-foer's in a mood

but falls asleep - a bag of gold's accrued,

and Jack goes home and gives his Mum her share.

 

He climbs again, and grabs the golden goose,

the next time up the giant yells abuse,

when Jack purloins the golden harp, cuts loose,

and follows Jack straight down the beanstalk stair.

 

Jack makes it down first, grabs an axe that's there,

and now the boy's a multi-millionaire.

 

 

Original picture by Graeme King ©Kingpoetry2007  BACK to TOP