Giving a Voice to Water: A Personification Poem for Kids

Swimming Pool

It’s evening time again, oh joy!

when 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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