A Day At The Beach

• Patrick Calder, Grade 5
• Poetry
• 2009

There is a story I want to tell,
one day on a beach, I found a shell.
It must have washed up on a wave,
I think it came from a far away cave.

It was the biggest shell I'd ever seen,
it was coloured blue and green.
Inside I found a very small fish,
not big enough for a dish.
I took it home and put it in the bath,
the fish grew so big I began to laugh.
I decided to take it back to the sea,
I thought it was better for the fish to be free!