Friday 25 September 2015

Time to Invent!

Before the summer, the children's school gave the prompt for the summer writing competition. It was to be any piece of writing about inventors or an invention in any style. It was a nice prompt, because the previous two had been fiction prompts (first lines). This one opened that up nicely.

This is my entry.

Time to invent

Tick tock
Tick squock

Dials are wriggled
Nobbles are squiggled

Wind, wind, whirr, whirr

Tick tock
Tick splat

Teeny tiny
Weeny whiny
Cogs are rattled.

Wind, wind, whirr, whirr

Tick tock
Tick twang

Coffee is drunk
Thoughts are thunk

Tick tock
Tick tweee

Heads are scratched
Hair detached

Tables are kicked…
…catches are flicked

Wind, wind, whirr, whirr

Tick tock
Tick… tock

Tick tock
Tick tock
Tick tock
Tick! Tock!
TICK!!! TOCK!!!

!!! !!!!

A chime has chimed
Brass numbers shine


The invention of Time.