Swifts Fine Art              Abstract Realism

Greenboots (A Children's Story)

 

I want to tell you about Greenboots:

 

He was once called Mudfoot

because he never cleaned between his toes

never washed his feet,

never ever!

 

Nobody would let him into their homes

as his feet were always muddy

but

Everybody liked him,

he was always cheerful

and

really looked after the trees in the valley.

 

He saw to the planting of saplings,

the little trees

and

he protected the old and mature trees

from foreign woodcutters,

those people who knew nothing about trees

except to cut them down for timber.

 

In the centre of this valley

stood a thicket of huge trees.

These trees bore a red fruit

that fed the Blue birds of happiness-

you know the ones I mean:

the birds that laugh-sing when they fly

and make everbody look up and smile.