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Basia’s Birthday Present | Robin Mellor, Poet & Children's Writer
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Robin Mellor, Poet and Children's Writer. Poems and Stories for Children. I Told a Lie Today. Problems with the Moon. To be a Dragon. Back in the Day. Yellow Diggers →. Basia’s Birthday Present. July 24, 2011. It is always interesting to find one’s work cited in a piece of academic research literature. Basia’s Birthday Present. A short story of mine) is mentioned in The Representation of the Ethnic and Cultural ‘Other’ in Primary School Textbooks. One question draws attention to the terminology of refuge...
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eBooks | Robin Mellor, Poet & Children's Writer
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Robin Mellor, Poet and Children's Writer. Poems and Stories for Children. I Told a Lie Today. Problems with the Moon. To be a Dragon. Notes on writing poetry with children. Stand Up, Sit Down- poems for children to join in. Basia’s Birthday Present. Back in the Day. Quillstring – Robin and Anne Mellor.
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My Dog Smells | Robin Mellor, Poet & Children's Writer
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Robin Mellor, Poet and Children's Writer. Poems and Stories for Children. I Told a Lie Today. Problems with the Moon. To be a Dragon. Jackie 1986 - 2002. The faint scent of. Like a black star,. When it’s chicken. She reads the garden. Breeze like a child. With a first comic;. Is full of information,. She fills her lungs. And when, in the woods,. Foxes have been,. She rolls, and then…. Basia’s Birthday Present. Back in the Day. Quillstring – Robin and Anne Mellor.
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Scrumdiddly | Robin Mellor, Poet & Children's Writer
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Robin Mellor, Poet and Children's Writer. Poems and Stories for Children. I Told a Lie Today. Problems with the Moon. To be a Dragon. I don’t like peanut butter,. But Dad won’t listen to me,. He comes in and says. 8220;Peanut butter sandwiches, for tea.”. And when I say. 8220;But Dad…”,. 8220;They’re scrumdiddly,. They’re spiffybosh,. They’re extra scrumdidooshus.”. And I know I’m out of luck. I don’t like dead green cabbage,. But Dad won’t listen to me,. So every Wednesday we have. And when I say.
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20 Years Ago | Robin Mellor, Poet & Children's Writer
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Robin Mellor, Poet and Children's Writer. Poems and Stories for Children. I Told a Lie Today. Problems with the Moon. To be a Dragon. March 15, 2013. In this photo by Eric Richmond. Taken in 1993-4, I am listening to a child read her poem to me during a workshop I was giving at the Poetry Society. Robin Mellor at the Poetry Society 1993-4, photo by Eric Richmond. This entry was posted in News. Basia’s Birthday Present. Back in the Day. Quillstring – Robin and Anne Mellor.
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To be a Dragon | Robin Mellor, Poet & Children's Writer
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Robin Mellor, Poet and Children's Writer. Poems and Stories for Children. I Told a Lie Today. Problems with the Moon. To be a Dragon. To be a Dragon. To be a dragon. You do not need a hoard. Of gems and gold,. You need not live in darkness,. You need no fire to fry. A maiden sacrifice,. Nor wings to take you. Round the mountains in a trice,. Large scaly wings;. But you do need to be believed in. To be a knight. You do not need a steed. With mane, cloud white;. No lance of oaken strength. In moonlit hand;.
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Yellow Diggers | Robin Mellor, Poet & Children's Writer
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Robin Mellor, Poet and Children's Writer. Poems and Stories for Children. I Told a Lie Today. Problems with the Moon. To be a Dragon. Basia’s Birthday Present. 20 Years Ago →. May 25, 2012. Oh the yellow diggers dig. And the orange dumpers dump,. The Water, Gas and Electric. Are making the road into humph. There are big holes here and there,. Little holes everywhere,. The workmen are always making holes. They must thing that they are moles. This entry was posted in Poems. Basia’s Birthday Present.
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Nursery Rhyme | Robin Mellor, Poet & Children's Writer
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Robin Mellor, Poet and Children's Writer. Poems and Stories for Children. I Told a Lie Today. Problems with the Moon. To be a Dragon. Sing a song of nothing. With a pocket full of hand,. Watch the monkey dancing. With a penguin on the sand. See the flying rhino. Eat a wrinkled peach;. The Queen of Hearts is riding by,. She’s travelling to the beach. Five and twenty donkeys. Sit in a cabbage patch,. Singing sailors’ ditties. And watching mothballs hatch. The poet ends his reading,. He thinks he is alone,.
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I Told a Lie Today | Robin Mellor, Poet & Children's Writer
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Robin Mellor, Poet and Children's Writer. Poems and Stories for Children. I Told a Lie Today. Problems with the Moon. To be a Dragon. I Told a Lie Today. I told a lie today. And it curled up inside me. Like a steel hard spring. It was quite a clever lie,. No one guessed the truth,. They believed me;. But I’ve carried the twist of it. At the centre of my body, all day,. And I think it’s expanding,. Filling me up,. Making my eyes feel red. Perhaps it’s going to uncoil suddenly. And burst me open,.