Stick Insects
Stick insects do not play the flute
Or wash the kitchen floor
They don’t know how to mend a fuse
Or write or paint or draw
I think this is quite sensible
And hope that you do too,
If I was a stick insect
I would stick to what I knew!
Or wash the kitchen floor
They don’t know how to mend a fuse
Or write or paint or draw
I think this is quite sensible
And hope that you do too,
If I was a stick insect
I would stick to what I knew!
This poem is copyright (©) John Dredge 2026
About the Writer
John Dredge
John Dredge has had his work broadcast on BBC Radio London and BBC 6Music. He has been published in The Manchester Post, The Morecambe Poetry Festival Anthology, and the Dirigible Balloon children’s anthology Sky Surfing. He has also had work shown as part of an exhibition run by The Poetry Society.
