Title:Boy learns to Swim(Worth a Verse!)
You see the river?
Yes That beautiful river and all the sound.
The Green and The Yellow
And all that is colorful around.

I was taught in school,
Yes ,I still remember the portion.
That river originates in a mountain or glacier,
and meets the flat ocean.

Oh that big and beautiful Book,
Of my favourite subject:Geography,
with all those graphs
and my annual picture with a trophy.

I thought I would write a wonderful rhyme,
dedicated to this colorful scheme,
And they will revere me as a poet of nature(Wordsworth!),
And I will treat them with an Ice cream.

Irrelevant:Those peasant brutes threw me in the river,
And mocking bastards asked me to swim.
Boy ,My muscles tire and give up,
I regret not being regular in Gym.

I remember coming here with other smart friends,
Happy ,Intelligent(unlike dumb brutes),in Tents;Girls and so Bold,
We will just touch the water with our big toe,
And exclaim 'Wow,It is so divinely cold!'

Bah:Somewhere I have heard that all animals
are obvious natural swimmers,
Monkeys,Ants ,elephants(Yes,On DiscoveryTV)
and even those stupid lemurs.

.Now:I just wanted to be an animal,
To stop this shaking and this horrible tremor.
Anything ,A Monkey ,An Ant ,An Elephant
or even like a stupid lemur.

I must be quick, I realize
If I dont want to get drowned,
And in the middle of a river
I find myself frowned.

Briefly:I wonder why all animals
are obvious natural swimmers,
Monkeys,Ants ,elephants
and even those(damned) stupid lemurs!

Ignorant fools!May be they dont know,
That they cannot swim,
And their muscles dont need a trainer,
nor any routine sweat in any Gym.

Hence:I dabble naively moving my hands,
But My head easy and steady above my throat.
With little fear gone and Hands nimble,
I suddenly realize I can easily float.

-Rohan Thackeray