H: Thank you for being my Mommy, Happy Birthday!

To Mommy, A Birthday Poem

-- by H (a Grade 4 student): June 22, 2015

(written** on a bench outside the Phoenix Restaurant on Bayview)

Afternoon tea with grandparents is 

yummy.

I wish you were here with Daddy.

We are now going to the library.

On your Birthday we are so happy!

We are enjoying the sunny day.

I want to dive into the bay.

Beside the bay there is a small totem.

This is the end of the poem!

PS: Thank you for being my Mommy!

** Note:

With some assistance of course (like suggested rhymes, some leading questions) by a "self-styled contemporary poet and body guard". (hehee!)

To aid in her all round development, I am going to teach her some martial moves for street-smarting and effective self-defence.