The Empty Nest

About the Poem

In England, it is still not uncommon for boys to be sent away to boarding school at the tender age of seven. Strangely, it is often the mothers who cry themselves to sleep at night, while the boys take on the chracteristics of the feral castaways in Lord of the Flies.

Category

School Poems

Style

Rhyming poem

Author

Patrick Winstanley

The empty bed
The teddy bear
Do not linger
I am not here

Please do not cry
I will return
In just eight weeks
It'll be half term

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