I started writing Disney-inspired poems back in April 2017, after a few too many comments about me being “A BIT OLD” for my Big Hero 6 lunchbag. Madness, right? As Walt said, adults are only kids grown up, anyway.

You can order my poetry book – Kids Grown Up – and prints of my poems via BigCartel.

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Hiya pals — BIG NEWZ, for me at least, which is: a lil range of my Disney-inspired poems are now available as A4 prints on BigCartel! So if you're a fan of Kids Grown Up, or you're missing Main Street USA, or you want to passive-aggressively make a point to the Sues and Robs in your life, NOW'S YER TIME. Link in bio — and if you don't see your favourite poem available to buy then HIT ME TF UP and I will get on the case speedy speedy 🐭

A post shared by SOPHIE JO (@sophiejowrites) on May 25, 2020 at 11:24am PDT

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WE MISS DISNEY, and that is the long and short of it. Thank u pals who got in touch to share highly niche examples of Stuff You Can't Wait To Do/See/Eat/Smell (we heart Pirates)/Silently Weep Over —- we are all HEFTY mouse nerds and woo I adore it 🤘

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tl;dr – STFU SUE. Bringing this poem back cos why the heck not —- and in all seriousness, PLEASE don't be a Sue. You think someone's life choices are weird? Great! Fine!! GOOD FOR YOU, but keep it in your head. Pointing out that someone is doing things Slightly Differently To How You Would Do Them isn't going to make them change —- it's just going to make them think you're nosy and unnecessarily invested in their life. Making negative comments re: something that makes someone else happy is a low blow pal A REAL LOW BLOW. Be on your way Sue and Rob, YOU HEINOUS KNOW-IT-ALLS 👋👋👋

A post shared by SOPHIE JO (@sophiejowrites) on Jul 3, 2018 at 4:50am PDT

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OH LOOK ANOTHER POEM, and this time a Disney one!!! I would love to say I am on a roll but truthfully I found this in an ancient Word document this morning and decided it wasn't quite as diabolical as I'd originally thought. BRACE YOURSELVES for more Sue and Rob (and Mike! That wiseguy 😒) and then TAG yourselves —- I'm the Euro Disney Dad, obv. Swipe for part 2, and then swipe again for the original Sue + Rob poem from many many moons ago (2017?? HOW. We are all gettin on a bit) ❤ P.S. how do u spell "plusses"? "Pluses"?? It all looks wrong, I'm tired

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Rumours of my raging PMS have not been at ALL exaggerated. Has the week been bad? No. Am I still going to complain about it and cry every so often for reasons such as 'I Forgot To Buy Breakfast Cereal' and 'I Will Never Get To Hug That Dog I Saw Earlier In Tesco'?? YOU KNOW IT. If you too are having a subpar week then pls know I am sending you positive vibes via the medium of terrible poetry, WE GOT THIS FRIENDS ❤ (but really today I would rather be in Disneyland so who's coming)

A post shared by SOPHIE JO (@sophiejowrites) on Sep 12, 2019 at 5:18am PDT

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I wrote some of this ACTUALLY ON A BENCH in @disneyland, because I only had an hour left and I'd got to that weird, half-frantic, half-soak-it-all-in sort of feeling that ya GET when there are just 59 minutes until you need to jump in a taxi to the airport. Does anyone else get the same thing? And like wow I have to go soon but….. this is my home now? I live here??? It's the strangest saddest happiest feeling — sad because we miss it, happy because sometimes aches are worthwhile and we are so lucky to have a place that makes us get that way (sure there's a Winnie the Pooh quote in there somewhere……) ANYWAY ENJOY!! I hope you do ❤

A post shared by SOPHIE JO (@sophiejowrites) on May 8, 2019 at 8:02am PDT

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IT'S BEEN 84 YEARS but here we are — a new poem!! I miss Disneyland somethin' awful and I had a dream at the weekend that I was walking right down the middle of Main Street USA, which frankly made the whole thing worse, so this was my Sunday project. I'm a little (a lot) rusty, LIKE AN ABANDONED VAN, but LET'S CONTINUE cos I really love writing these and I missed 'em ❤

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WE MISS YA, ALFRED, ALL THE TOWN. IT AIN'T THE SAME NOW, MISTER BROWN. Hi pals! It's been a while since I wrote a Haunted Mansion tombstone poem, but I was listening to the ride spiel on my lunchbreak today and INSPIRATION HIT ME… so here we are. Grim grinning ghosts come out to DO SOME READING! 🔮👻💍⚰ P.S. Little bit of trivia for ya: this photo is from Boot Hill at Disneyland Paris, just outside Phantom Manor, and it shows Mary Murphy and Frank Ballard, who were an almost-married couple, it seems. Their stones say 'Til Death' and 'Do Us Part'… BUT IF YOU LOOK REALLY CLOSE, THERE IS AN EXTRA GRAVE BEHIND THEM! It belongs to Ma Ballard (an angry-looking gal who is presumably Frank's mom), and HER tombstone says 'Over My Dead Body'. OH THE SCANDAL. If you were wondering why I love Disney so much, it's because of stuff like this 👻👻👻

A post shared by SOPHIE JO (@sophiejowrites) on Jun 27, 2018 at 12:34pm PDT

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Seeing the sign that says 'HERE YOU LEAVE TODAY AND ENTER THE WORLD OF YESTERDAY, TOMORROW AND FANTASY' has to be one of my most tingly Disneyland moments. What kinda stuff do you guys leave at the entrance? For me it's any kind of outside-world-stress — it blows my tiny MIND that when I'm walking around Disneyland I kind of forget that the real world even exists. I love my life and my everyday adventures, but I think everyone needs a break from the norm / their own head every once in a while ❤

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