Hello on this last day of National Poetry Month! I'm giving this poem it's own post because it was a bugger to write. You can view all the poems in the ArtSpeak: Red series (so far) on
padlet. For this poem, I typed pages and pages of watermelon ideas -- only to discard them. It's hard to write about something so familiar and bring something fresh to a poem... and then I remembered one of
Charles Water's poems about peanut butter that the kids adore. It uses rhyme, and so I decided I could do that, too, and at least make watermelon FUN (because it is!).
So there you go. My only concern is: will kids know what "champagne" is? I don't know!
Here it is again, not tied to the image:
Watermelon TimeHoney, grab a watermelon.Baby, pick a big one!Now let's crack it open –we'll feast on juicy sun.
Honey, is your belly full?Baby, did you taste sweet rain?Watermelon, o watermelon!Summer's own champagne.
- Irene Latham
Published on April 30, 2020 03:30