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Alexandra Carr-Malcolm, humour, milk tooth, poetry, tooth, tooth fairy, UK poet, writing, Yorkshire poet
I’ve been playing with some ideas for children’s poems and verses. Ironically I finished this one yesterday just before a large chunk of my tooth fell out.
I’m now nervously waiting for the dentist to tell me tomorrow if it can be saved – Oh well on the bright side, the tooth fairy may well be generous?
I’m a little bit worried
to tell you the truth,
last night I discovered
a wobbly tooth.
I wiggled it this way,
and wobbled it that,
it started to hurt,
my gum feels quite fat.
I then ate an apple,
and that did the trick,
out came my tooth,
it didn’t hurt a bit!
The hole felt enormous,
the size of a pea,
I looked in the mirror,
’twas the size of a flea.
Now that it’s out,
it’s not quite so scary,
so it’s under the pillow,
for the bedtime tooth-fairy.
© Wobbly Tooth 05.08.2013
by Alexandra Carr-Malcolm
The Tooth Fairy Tats 2000 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Worldly Winds 
Cute 🙂
Good luck with your dental visit!
Thank you – all fixed and eating cake again 😀
Much gentler than my father’s solution to a “wobbly tooth” He would tie a string around the tooth, connect the end of the string to a door handle then slam the door.Traumatic, but it worked. Funny thing is we lived on an orchard yet biting into an apple never crossed his mind. 🙂
Ouch – that sounds a drastic solution – thank goodness it wasn’t a revolving door!
A lovely piece that is sure to delight the audience for whom it was written. Well done. (Caveat: that particular tooth fairy is rated R).
Thank you – I’m not sure it is a true representation of a tooth fairy – I expected them to be more sparkly 😀
Very cute!
Aw thank you 🙂
Surely this fairy (faerie) you write of is one of good intentions?
Nope – they are in it for the teeth! Hehe!! 😀