Friday, June 19, 2009

POETRY FRIDAY: Sunflakes by Frank Asch


This has been the rainiest June that I can remember. I’m longing for a bit of sunshine. Thus, here is my choice for Poetry Friday this week. It’s a children’s poem by Frank Asch.

Sunflakes
by Frank Asch

If sunlight fell like snowflakes,
gleaming yellow and so bright,
we could build a sunman,
we could have a sunball fight,
we could watch the sunflakes
drifting in the sky.



You can read the rest of the poem here.
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At Wild Rose Reader, I have a review of Incredible Inventions, another great poetry anthology compiled by Lee Bennett Hopkins.

The Poetry Friday Roundup is at Carol’s Corner today.

7 comments:

jama said...

This one cheered me right up. We've had a lot of rain, too.

Mary Lee said...

I'm sending you a small square of bright blue Colorado sky -- that piece right over there above the still snowcapped mountains. I'll include a whiff of clean mountain air, spiced with pine and sagebrush.

Elaine Magliaro said...

Jama,

It's really been a pretty miserable month--not quite your typical June in Massachusetts.


Mary Lee,

Thanks. Wish I could be there!

Marinela said...

Beautifully written!

Libby Koponen said...

This spring/summer feels like that to me, too-- I'm glad to know it's not just my imagination! And it's grey and rainy today and guess what's predicted for tomorrow? RAIN! ENOUGH ALREADY.

Anyway, thanks for the sunshine poem. I wish I could turn my whole apartment into a big bright yellow tent.

laurasalas said...

Fun! Love the sunmobile (though the idea of sunflakes makes me think of dandruff).

We're having a drought here in Minnesota, so I wish some of your rain could come this way.

Elaine Magliaro said...

Hey, All--

It's now Tuesday--and it's STILL RAINING!!! I don't think we've had seven days of sun yet this month.