The Pan and the Potatoes By Kirsi Kunnas

Phew!

I’m sweating and steaming

I feel like screaming

I’m bubbling and seething

I’m rattling like tea-things

The pan said took his hat off his head and

Phew!

I’m absolutely boiling

I’m bristling and whistling and hustling and moiling

And all hot and sizzling

It’s a mad mad bustle

The pan said took its hat off its head and

Phew!

Ouch this hoppity, hoppity, hoppity

Shouted the potatoes, popping up fit to split

No way of stopping it, dropping it, swapping it dancing a polka, have to, dance, dancing a polka

Got to go higher now, shoes are on fire now

Galloping, galloping, off at a lollop

Jumping and jumping and off at a wallop

Turning and thumping, thumping and turning

Oh this knocking and bumping and socking

Off again copping it, hopping it, whopping it makes me split

No way of stopping it!

This poem sings about how the potatoes are feeling when they are boiled in a pan. The potatoes say that they are very angry and wanted to scream because the water is too hot and the pan is making them boil like tea. We shout like a kettle's whistle.

The pan sings lifting its lid and pushing the steam out.

Again the potatoes said that they felt like angry animals with its fur standing up. We are hopping, pushing, frying, inside the pan. We are also making a hissing sound in the pan. The potatoes also say that we make noise like people in crowd and move around in a clumsy way. We do polka dance with fast and lively movements/steps. We jump and leap forward.

Finally after all the trouble being inside the hot water, we are boiled with split on us. But there is no way for us to stop this boiling pan.

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