Go Fly a Kite, by Laura Purdie Salas [Poetry Friday]

Poetry Friday

Today’s poem comes from the fabulous Poetry Friday Anthology for Science, edited by Sylvia Vardell and Janet Wong.

This latest offering in their Poetry Friday Anthology series is chock-full of poems exploring everything from physics to scientific methods to nature to machines to scientists. There’s a teacher’s edition, and then grade by grade student editions–with line art illustrations and bonus poems.

Go Fly a Kite

Above the kite, the pressure’s low.
The air’s a streaming, breezy flow.

Below the kite, the pressure’s higher.
Up! Up! Up! This one’s a fly-er!

Lift versus drag.
Lift wins!
That’s why…

your kite
breaks
free
and
climbs
the
sky!

–Laura Purdie Salas, all rights reserved

I highly recommend ALL the Poetry Friday Anthology books, and of course it’s fun to see lots of regular Poetry Friday participants in there:>)

Here I am reading “Go Fly a Kite!”

 

Tabatha Yeatts has the Poetry Friday Roundup today?at The Opposite of Indifference–enjoy!

52 Responses

  1. The book is another treasure, Laura. Love your poem. We’re taking a kite to the beach this next week, maybe there will be a science lesson in there too? Thank you!

  2. The book is another treasure, Laura. Love your poem. We’re taking a kite to the beach this next week, maybe there will be a science lesson in there too? Thank you!

  3. I love the information included and the text shape. Great mentor poem for my students! 🙂 I also love that you record yourself reading your poem. I need to try that. 🙂

    1. Thanks, Holly–I’m barely starting to get used to my recorded voice!

  4. I love the information included and the text shape. Great mentor poem for my students! 🙂 I also love that you record yourself reading your poem. I need to try that. 🙂

    1. Thanks, Holly–I’m barely starting to get used to my recorded voice!

  5. There are so many great poems on this and all the POETRY FRIDAY ANTHOLOGIES. I love your concrete poem, Laura (good to use in language arts as well as science).

  6. There are so many great poems on this and all the POETRY FRIDAY ANTHOLOGIES. I love your concrete poem, Laura (good to use in language arts as well as science).

  7. A kite is a free image I neede a positive sine of being free today I love the poem

  8. A kite is a free image I neede a positive sine of being free today I love the poem

  9. I have a copy of this one and am excited to use it this year alongside Wonderopolis, a great combination. I am a strong believer in poetry being a part of every day in the classroom. Thanks for sharing this delightful, uplifting poem.

  10. I have a copy of this one and am excited to use it this year alongside Wonderopolis, a great combination. I am a strong believer in poetry being a part of every day in the classroom. Thanks for sharing this delightful, uplifting poem.

  11. “Uplifiting” post, Laura! (Sorry. Couldn’t help myself.)

    Thanks for sharing your perfect poem for summer, and for shining some sunlight on Janet and Sylvia’s latest work of wonder.

    1. Thanks, Robyn–I forgive you the pun. My husband is a shameless punster. Glad you liked the poem–the PFAs are so fabulous!

  12. “Uplifiting” post, Laura! (Sorry. Couldn’t help myself.)

    Thanks for sharing your perfect poem for summer, and for shining some sunlight on Janet and Sylvia’s latest work of wonder.

    1. Thanks, Robyn–I forgive you the pun. My husband is a shameless punster. Glad you liked the poem–the PFAs are so fabulous!

  13. Hearing you read it was great fun. Did you decide on the shape first or get the draft first, then massage it into kite form?

  14. Hearing you read it was great fun. Did you decide on the shape first or get the draft first, then massage it into kite form?

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