The Goldfish
Listen to Ian ...
Have you ever told someone a story
that you wrongly thought happened to you?
I'll give you my favourite example:
my goldfish that was flushed down the loo.
I reminded my sister about it,
telling her how my young heart had been torn.
She said, “I think you’ll find that was my goldfish,
and you hadn’t even been born!”
that you wrongly thought happened to you?
I'll give you my favourite example:
my goldfish that was flushed down the loo.
I reminded my sister about it,
telling her how my young heart had been torn.
She said, “I think you’ll find that was my goldfish,
and you hadn’t even been born!”
This poem is copyright (©) Ian Brownlie 2025
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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