Animal Antics
Granda can’t hear so well these days
He mixes up words and texts
It’s become our newest, funniest game
To guess just what he’ll say next.
I told him I needed a cardboard box
But he thought I’d said I’d seen a fox!
My sister said she’d a very sore throat
He thought there were escaped billy goats!
He told me Mum had bought six hens
When she’d really needed a black felt pen!
When Dad said he’d finished washing his car
Granda thought he’d found a budgerigar!
But the game changed when we met Bosphorus
Granda’s new pet baby rhinoceros!
He mixes up words and texts
It’s become our newest, funniest game
To guess just what he’ll say next.
I told him I needed a cardboard box
But he thought I’d said I’d seen a fox!
My sister said she’d a very sore throat
He thought there were escaped billy goats!
He told me Mum had bought six hens
When she’d really needed a black felt pen!
When Dad said he’d finished washing his car
Granda thought he’d found a budgerigar!
But the game changed when we met Bosphorus
Granda’s new pet baby rhinoceros!
This poem is copyright (©) Morna Sullivan 2026
About the Writer
Morna Sullivan
Morna Sullivan has always had a love of stories and has been reading and writing stories and poems since she could read and write. She is a member of the Coney Island Writers Group and a SCWBI member regularly attending the Belfast chapter meetings. She has recently taken over as SCBWI Regional Advisor (Ireland) leading a team of volunteers supporting children’s writers and illustrators across Ireland.
