Day-Trip
Every once in a while I post a poem in my blog.
I hope that my readers may enjoy my poems and that educators may find them helpful as teaching aids.
For a very long time in the UK people would travel by train to the seaside during the summer. The day-trip to the seaside was something of a national institution. For small children, such a day-trip was a grand adventure.
DAY - TRIP
Sitting on the sea - shore
licking on an ice - cream
swinging a bucket and spade .
Building fairy castles
shouting to his mother
showing the fine things he's made.
Seeking some new wonder
paddling in the water
laughing and splashing and wet .
Boring of this pastime
dozing on a bath - towel
dreaming of flying a jet .
Shadows growing longer
sky of many colours
sun has become a red ball .
Time for more adventure
riding on the railway
What tales he'll tell them at school!
image courtesy Wikimedia commons.
