Elly Elephant felt happy as she skipped to the park,
She sat near a tree and leant on the bark.
Her tummy rumbled as she thought of her lunch,
A sandwich, apple and cheese to munch.
First her jam sandwich; “Mmmmmmm so yummy”,
Sweet and delicious in her tummy.
Ladybug Lou and her children flying by smelt the jam,
Ladybug Lou asked “Doesn’t that smell delicious Molly, Tom and Pam?”
Elly Elephant’s smile grew and she gave the sandwich to the family of four,
“Enjoy my friends, look in my lunchbox I have more.”
“Thank you Elly” said the ladybugs and they flew off into the sky.
Elly Elephant waved goodbye then reached for her apple so very red.
And she felt a soft touch, a boof to the side of her head.
She looked up at a horse looking at her apple with its wide brown eyes,
“Sorry Elly, I didn’t mean to bump you, it’s just your apple, it’s a very big size.”
“And I can’t help but wonder what it would taste like” said the horse.
Elly Elephant smiled, “here, you have the apple. Be careful of the juice of course.”
The horse neighed a thank you and slowly trotted away,
While Elly Elephant looked at her cheese and thought “perfect, all I needed was a snack today.”
A little voice spoke: “A snack? That cheese is enough to feed me today and tomorrow.”
It was a mouse and Elly knew that she just couldn’t resist the cute little fellow.
“Little mouse, here you have the cheese.”
“You can eat it all yourself however you please.”
A yip for thank you and the mouse scampered off through the playground.
And now Elly Elephant couldn’t hear a sound.
Except for the rumbling of her very empty tummy,
She looked in her lunch box but now there was nothing yummy.
“I know, I’ll get up and go to the playground for a play,
That’s what I’ll do and I’ll be happy and gay.”
Elly Elephant went to play on the swing,
After all it was her favourite thing.
Two ladybugs were playing and swinging,
One of them waited, whistling and singing.
The swinging ladybugs saw Elly and immediately stopped somehow,
“Elly kind elephant we loved the jam sandwich, it would make us so happy for you to swing now”.
Elly smiled and jumped on the swing thanking the ladybugs as she did so,
Her smile vanished as she realised that she couldn’t move not even to go slow.
She couldn’t swing, she hadn’t really ever learned or got the knack,
No need to worry, behind her she felt a gentle push and a nuzzle in her back.
It was the horse so happy to help just as Elly who had given her an apple so red,
Elly was soon swinging and felt she was going to touch the trees, the clouds, the sky with her head.
The new friends all played together. But where was the mouse?
It turns out the scampering little cheese-eating creature had an enormous restaurant for a house.
She came back with a feast that was fit for a king and presented it to Elly,
And the elephant ate until she had a very very very full belly.
endless after 