Giving a Voice to Water: A Personification Poem for Kids
- Mark Bird
- 5 days ago
- 1 min read
Swimming Pool
It’s evening time again, oh joy!
For gassy grans and bombing boys
Inflated crocs and unicorns
Retreat - My peace, restored, reborn
From galaxies beyond the sun
As night descends, new bathers come
With sparkling winks and silent gleams
My ripples glint with starry dreams
Mark Bird
I wrote Swimming Pool as a light-hearted response to a social media prompt I run under the hashtag #personifythis. The weekly challenge is to give human qualities to something non-human—in this case, a pool. It ended up being a fun exercise in voice and perspective, and the result was a short personification poem for kids that gently shifts from day to night.
The poem imagines the swimming pool narrating its own experience: from the noisy chaos of daytime swimmers to the calm, dreamy quiet of evening. I liked the idea of showing how even something as ordinary as a pool might “feel” relief and wonder, depending on the time of day.
Personification is such a useful literary tool for young readers and writers—it opens up creativity and invites empathy. With Swimming Pool, I simply aimed to explore that in a playful, visual way.
I’d love you to share your #PersonifyThis poems in the Comments below.
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