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!




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