Anna’s Alabaster Pasta Sculpture
The alabaster pasta sculpture
won first prize, but then a vulture
swept down and destroyed it faster
than an angry kung fu master.
Anna wailed as claws destroyed it.
Now she’d no way to avoid it:
the judge saw 'twas not alabaster,
just white-painted piles of pasta.
won first prize, but then a vulture
swept down and destroyed it faster
than an angry kung fu master.
Anna wailed as claws destroyed it.
Now she’d no way to avoid it:
the judge saw 'twas not alabaster,
just white-painted piles of pasta.
This poem is copyright (©) Ian Brownlie 2026
About the Writer
Ian Brownlie
Ian lives with his family in Marlow, Bucks (UK). His prospective middle grade novel, Solomon Brown from Hero Town, was longlisted for the Times/Chicken House Children's Fiction Competition. His poems have been published in The Dirigible Balloon and The Toy.
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