Will Patrons of Forest Hill Swimming Pool Kindly

Dive into the lemonade bubbles,

swim like a tiger fish, a dolphin, a shark;

flip your mermaid’s tail.

Play waterpat with a stripy white, green and orange ball,

learn how to do backstroke in the deep end,

scud with your hands and legs on your back.

Play Olympics in the pool,

race from side to side with your brothers,

when you’re a shark catch your Mum underwater,

dunk your Dad.

Try not to be too sad to come out of the pool,

have a coffee, some cheesecake,

egg mayonnaise sandwiches,

drink Green Tea.

 

From a workshop 22^nd September 2012 in Forest Hill Library on the day the new Forest Hill Pools opened.

Written with Sarah, Lizzie, Ethan, Joel, Lizzie, Maya (if I remember correctly. They were one family and had just come back from Cyprus) and Chrissie Gittins