Sandcastle

Down to the beach – a building project’s planned! Plastic spades gripped tight in eager hands. We fill the buckets, tip them, pat them and

Soon there’s a magic castle made of sand.

Let’s find some stones, decide which shells to pick, And make a flag from seaweed and a stick.

Fetch some water from the sea. A moat. Be quick! Before it drains into the sand, a photo . . . click!

The sun sinks down; the sky is turning grey. We trudge up the pebbles, wishing we could stay, While the castle left behind us starts to sway As the tide creeps up and carries it away.

Vivien Brown.