A Mischievous Lot!

Having read Enid Blyton as a child, I've been fascinated by her thoughts and words even as the years passed by. She's one of my favourite authors. The characters she etches... the settings, the plot, her style is really amazing. The language is simple yet captivating. It truly helps build an interest in reading and adds to the vocabulary. The pictures of gardens, children, food and simple country life that she paints with her pen leaves one longing for more.

This poem too in a way celebrates the innocent mischief of childhood days. You've got to read it to know what I mean.

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One, two three, four and five

Into the pretty lily pond they dived

They splashed, giggled, and laughed aloud

The little but naughty cherubic crowd!

Mummy heard yells, howls and shouts

Peeped out from the kitchen with doubts

Then happy laughter came floating in

Louder and louder grew the din.

She rushed to the garden to see the lot

Amongst the ruckus they had wrought

The ducks were looking at them in distaste

While they gave their mother looks, chaste.

They stepped out from the pond of lilies

The unruly team of colt and fillies

Mother stared at them and tapped a foot

Waiting for witty answers and input!

She swallowed hard when she saw their hair

And told them it just wasn’t at all fair

She asked what they had been doing

What new game were they pursuing!

Their hair was filled with weeds and sand

They said they had tried doing a head-stand

Mother made an angry, impatient sound

To stay calm, very difficult she found.

She marched the filthy looking devils in

She rubbed and scrubbed, hair and skin

The little cherubs were bathed till clean

And dressed in warm robes, a pretty green.

Sipping milk and nibbling cookies for supper

Two children looked down from bunks, upper

They asked for stories from their cosy beds

Of when the angels danced on their heads.

So mother smiled, picked up the story book

Read awhile, paused and took a quick look

To Dreamland the little ones had drifted off

To lands of smiles, wonder and magic, far-off!

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