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It’s Randy’s and my 37th anniversary today (as I post this on Thursday evening). I’m terrible at love poems, but I’ll say he’s the rainbow in my sometimes stormy life.
Before I share my rainbow poem, please check out my Classroom Connections post from Wednesday about Lydia Lukidis’ gorgeous new book, Up, Up, High: The Secret Poetry of Earth’s Atmosphere!
And now for my poem this week, I’m sharing my contribution to Matt Forrest Esenwine’s forthcoming poetry anthology, A Universe of Rainbows! Matt is a thoughtful, careful editor, and this poem (of the several different rainbowfish poems I sent him) went through a few revisions, even as brief as it is! I’ve gotten a quick glimpse at this anthology, but I can’t wait to read the whole book, full of amazing poetry and science!
Also, while I don’t think of myself as drawn to rainbows any more than an average person, I’ve written about them a lot! And this doesn’t include the various other rainbowfish poems I wrote. I might share a bit about that in forthcoming weeks :>)
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After the Storm Ribbons of color –Laura Purdie Salas, all rights reserved |
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Actually, there’s probably more than that, but that’s all I have time to dig up this week! For lots more wonderful poetry, don’t miss the Poetry Friday Roundup with poet-educator Carol Varsalona at Beyond LiteracyLink!
2 Responses
Happy anniversary, Laura! The language in your rainbowfish poem is gorgeous! I love rainbows so I can’t wait to read Matt’s anthology!
What a sweet RAINBOW tribute to Matt’s new anthology. I like how you dug up some other rainbow poems. I’m loving that image of the rainbow doing a backbend over the world. Fun rainbowfish poem! I“m looking forward to finding it in the anthology.