“Everyone
grumbled. The sky was grey.
We had nothing to do and nothing to say.
We were nearing the end of a dismal day,
And then there seemed to be nothing beyond,
Then
Daddy fell into the pond!”
Alfred Noyes, “Daddy Fell into the Pond”
Nothing but a silly story poem for a fun if gray Friday.
From a personal note, I have fallen into a pond (or pool) twice, once unwitnessed
when I was testing the ice on the semi-frozen turtle pond in front of the
Scarsdale Public Library and once to the wild amusement of my then 5-year-old
son into a hot tub. Read the poem, laugh along with the children, the gardener,
and even the geese. But be sympathetic to the Daddy’s side of the story as
well.
https://100.best-poems.net/daddy-fell-pond.html
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