Paddling in the toilet

This is a poem I wrote 20 years ago for a school Eisteddfod. The theme was 'water'. I originally wrote a serious poem about stalagmites and stalactites in a cave. 

I  quickly got bored and decided that if I wasn't going to win, I was going to do something that made me laugh. 

It won.

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