Childhood is...

 Childhood is...

Dr Abe V. Rotor

Living with Nature - School on Blog

Lesson: Recalling happy memories of childhood, in poetry. Recall the happiest moment of your childhood, put it in drawing and verses. Show and read to your friends, in school - to your children, or simply, to yourself.

Memories of Childhood, Mural detail, AVR 2009

Childhood is when the night passes

Quickly, rising as the sun rises,

To watch the herons stake the fishes

Singing with the birds in the trees.

Frogs are still before the kingfisher;

Rain is read from a friendly dragonfly;

Nests are secrets only to the finder -

These lessons live to live by.

War is solved in kites and fishing poles,

In hide-and-seek and barefoot races;

Faith lies in seasons the sky extols

And virtues friendship embraces.

Peals of thunder break the afternoon,

Driving the fowls to their tree;

And we catch the raindrops, and soon,

Across the field, dash for home in glee.~