Roar Squeak Purr: A Treasury of Animal Poems,
ed Paula Green, Illus Jenny Cooper
Penguin, 2022

The Muddy Cat

Squelch! Squilch! Squolch!
The mucky muddy cat is so muddy mucky
she looks like a mucky mud puddle
with two green eyes

and there is too much muddy mucky muck
for her dainty little pink cat tongue
to lick clean.

Paula Green, 2025

Today is National Poetry Day so to celebrate I am offering you a popUp poem challenge. For childreen from Y0 to Y8 in Aotearoa New Zealand.

I challenge you to write some cat poems.

Your poems can be funny, based on your family cat, your nana’s cat, anyone’s cat (!), tell a story, use your eyes, use your ears, use your imagination, use a cat fact or two!

Over to you! And if you want you can illustrate your poem.

The deadline is 9 am on Monday 25th August

Please include name, age , year and name of school

I will post some poems on Tuesday 26th August

I will give away one copy of Roar Squeak Purr: A Treasury of Animal Poems.

Don’t forget to write CAT POEM in the email subject line.

HAPPY NATIONAL POETRY DAY!