Poetry ideas needed for son's birthday poem

[DumbledoresGirl]

I don't know if anyone else does this, but once my children reach 10, I have started doing birthday poems for them. Ds1 is 12 on Saturday so this will be the third poem I have done for him and I am lacking original ideas.

When he was 10 I wrote a long poem of rhyming couplets, just silly stuff really about things that interest him.

When he was 11 I wrote an acrostic poem using his full name and recounting some of his achievements/hobbies for the year just gone.

I would really like suggestions for what I could do this year. He still has the same hobbies and interests as last year so I can't really revamp that idea. I like the acrostic idea as it limited my poem to a few short lines and it did not have to rhyme!

So, anyone with any ideas?

Limericks?

(When can you start doing haikus?)

LOL Haikus will be reserved for when they are teenage and never speak to me so give me nothing to write about!

Limericks - it is an idea but it will only be 5 lines long. I am not sure I can be clever enough to make it memorable!

Deck of Cards!

Is acrostic like this?
Prose its not
O yes lovely rhyme
Elephantitus
Me me me
if so, what's his name so I can put my amaxzing skills to your aid....or you could spell out Happy Birthday or his age???

I can't tell you his whole name - bloody hell you could trace hin down from his name! But his first name is Declan and last year this was the first verse of my poem: (don't take the piss)

Difficult though this is
Every parent should try to do it
Can I number your achievements
Leaving out no letters of your name?
A whizz at all things mathematical
Not a soul at school can match you.

So I have done an acrostic using his name. I suppose I could do another acrostic using the words Happy Birthday, but I was really hoping for another idea.

What does Deck of Cards mean?

yeah what does deck of cards mean?
I think you should do a rap

Deck of Cards
People have done parody versions...

How would a rap go? Just give me a flavour, it doesnt matter what it is about.

Erm it should probably start with Yo.

(Reaches end of usefulness here...)

LOL!

I like deck of cards idea. Would that go something like this?

Ace - you only have one mother so respect her!

Two - the number of times you have combed your hair without being asked this year.

Three - your siblings whom you love to attack so much

Yes that's the idea!

Yo mutha fukker in the mutherr fuckin house
I'm your fukkin muther so me have got the nous
Luckily for you I'm well on your team
Do yu like fish cos I like bream
mutherfukker.....yo

Yo this is the tale of a dude called Dec
Whose going at a speed that is called breakneck
Through childhood?s years, he ain?t no snail,
It?s enough to make his parents pale

Yo!

Dec of Cards...

Yeah, it was a good idea but I could not think of things to put with each number. I am trying the rap idea out.

The trouble we go to for our kids eh?