Swimming Ool
From the book The Aliens Have Landed at Our School!
Swimming in the swimming pool
is where I like to “B,”
wearing underwater goggles
so that I can “C.”
Yesterday, before I swam,
I drank a cup of “T.”
Now the pool is just an “ool”
because I took a “P.”
— Kenn Nesbitt
Copyright © 2001. All Rights Reserved.
Reading Level: Grade 3
Topics: Sports, Wordplay
Poetic Techniques: Narrative Poems, Wordplay
Word Count: 43
From the book The Aliens Have Landed at Our School!
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