"Looking above and looking belowmy head hardly knows which way to go.
I look up, down, all around
and, soon, my bottom meets the ground!
Ouch!"
This is what my great-great niece, who is six, said to me yesterday morning on our walk through the woods as I was leaning down to help her up. I thought it was amazingly good for a person who had just done what is described above!
A precocious poet, indeed! And what great color!
ReplyDeleteShe's a smart one! If I were to slip and fall like she did all I would be able to articulate is "OUCH!" (And likely a bad word or two).
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