Swimming for a healthy body <br />For a healthy mind <br />For a relaxation from problems <br />Swimming a beautiful experience. <br /> <br />To swim in the river <br />In the lake <br />Through the heavy flows <br />Skills to be learnt with care. <br /> <br />Swimming in the flood <br />That becomes more dangerous <br />In a river, overflowing water <br />Flood is having undercurrents. <br /> <br />To swim like a fish <br />Like a tortoise <br />More I liked in my childhood <br />But never could I achieve. <br /> <br />I have seen people drowned <br />Their corpse and the sad event <br />The family's hardships <br />Water where one must be careful. <br /> <br />An old man in my childhood <br />I have seen him swimming <br />In heavy flood and deep currents <br />Tied up empty coconuts his tool. <br /> <br />He was a strange and wonderful man <br />Having such an ability to swim <br />Whatever the depth and width of river <br />But he missed for ever <br />That too in such an accident he drowned.<br /><br />Gangadharan nair Pulingat..<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/swimming-14/
