Masquerade

Brenda Bryant

SHADOW SHOT SUNDAY

http://heyharriet.blogspot.com/2010/02/shadow-shot-sunday-90.html

MASQUERADE!

At the children's playground I spied this masquerade;

Spider-like and yet a trampoline.

And I wondered what the children thought when they scrambled up on it;

Surely the strangest insect ever seen.

Did they see a giant spider, and clamber on its web?

Did they bounce on it to show their lack of fear?

Did they giggle with excitement at their game of 'let's-pretend'

As they waited for the Spider to appear?

We can never think as children think; those thoughts are truly gone,

And we cannot quite remember what we thought.

Imagining was part of it, of that we may be sure

But our memories are of an adult sort.

It could be that the children don't think very much at all

As they gambol in this pleasant parkland scene.

Maybe little Johnny just looks at it and says

'I think I'll bounce on that old trampoline!'

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Another matter-of-fact child here:

http://rinklyrimes.blogspot.com/2008/06/28-basket-case.html