Friday 14 September 2012

Sloshy melon poem for early years children

Don't sit on your melon

Melon squashy
Melon sloshy
Melon yummy
Melon scrummy
Melon smellin' lovely jubbly
Now I'm tellin' my friend Helen:

"Eat your melon
slurp, slurp, slurp.
Gobble your melon
burp, burp, burp.
Do what you want;
do what you do.
I don't mind.
It's up to you.
But -
don't-don't; don't-don't;
don't! don't! don't!
Don't SIT on your melon,
Helen!"



Michael Rosen

(copyright 2012)
[not in any book yet]
[first appeared in 'Rhyme Rocket' BBC Cbeebies]