CHILDREN AT PLAY

CHILDREN AT PLAY



What a fun! Watch children playing,
Absorbed in games,
Calling out names,
And parents’ nerves fraying!

Happily lost in their own world,
They laugh and cry
Without being shy.
They act like a wild herd!

Parents’ advice they always shun.
No use for it.
It’s their habit.
Watching them what a fun!


* Rhyme, abba; syllabic pattern, 8-4-4-6
* Written for "Invalid Item" , the “ STROLL DOWN MEMORY LANE” contest, 5th round, October 2008, hosted by ShiShad , around the picture prompt no. 3, ** Image ID #1440532 Unavailable ** . The poem had to close with the opening 3 words.


M C Gupta
12 October 2008