Cheshire Cat Moon

Around ....must be twenty years ago now. My two eldest and I were sat in our car waiting for their Dad to come out of work.  One of them said that the moon looked like the Cheshire Cat's mouth, (as in the Disney film, Alice in Wonderland, they'd been watching it on video.)  I wrote this poem because of that comment.  Tonight there was a "Cheshire Cat Moon" again, and it reminded me of the time when my children were young.
So here it is, the poem....

 

Cheshire Cat Moon

Cheshire cat moon

Grinning in the sky.

Why’s he grinning?

He’s eaten the pie.

Then he curled up

Had a little dream,

Woke up again

And ate all the cream.

Cheshire cat moon

Grinning in the sky

When Mum finds out

I’ll be the one to cry

She’ll not believe

That you are real

Call me, “little liar!”

A smack is what I’ll feel.

Cheshire cat moon

Grinning in the sky

Growing bigger and bigger

Night after night

The food you steal

On nights clear and still.

Food people leave

On their windowsill.

Cheshire cat moon

Grinning in the sky

Green cheese diet

Is one you’ll never try?

I am quite pleased with the poem, but it also makes me think back to when both my children and I were so much more innocent.