The School Holidays

Image1: Norman and Kimie at the Club pool. It is a hot day.They like it here, it is the bigger pool now, no more wading pool for them.

 Image2: Chow-time at the Pool Terrace. A welcomed tuck in after the swim.

Image3: From Left : Dickson (Chinese) Kimie, Big Daniel ( of Malay/Australian parentage)
Small Daniel (of Portuguese/French parentage) and Norman, resting in between takes

 Image4: Play Station with Small Daniel, Kimie and Norman at other times

 Image5: Kimie with Naqip, my youngest grandchild

The school holidays are here

Let’s give a big hooray!

It affects one and sundry

The kids for a start

The parents having a respite

Snow elsewhere would be common

Visiting for the next few months

But in  our part of the world

It is clear, sunny and warm

An occasional shower and thunderstorm

Or when the heavens erupt

With Bangkok getting all the floods

The end of year is often notorious

Heavy rains a normal recourse

At other times hot and sunny

At the club Norman and Kimie

No more the kiddie wading pool

Being allowed in the big pool is cool

Frolicking in the hot sun

Of noodles and rice an early lunch

Into the Club Library they then adjourned 

Later in the afternoon

The neighborhood kids came on

For their ‘sessions’ of  PS2 or PSP

Or a game of Monopoly

They’ll be around now more often

Staying on till late afternoon

A mixed potpourri of a peer group

Sometimes alone or at times a crowd

Small Daniel, Dickson,
Imran, Big Daniel their friends 

Sara Ayesha, Naqib and Nabil
are of  my third generation

Such a crowd forgetting themselves
on certain occasions

A little rowdiness quite rarely

Otherwise like other kids
they are exemplary 

Submitted to d'Verse week#19