Riddle-Ku! [yellow explodes]

Riddle-ku (National Poetry Month 2014)

 

Riddle-Ku of the Day

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My yellow explodes
in the middle of summer
like daytime fireworks
–Laura Purdie Salas, all rights reserved
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HINT 1:

 

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HINT 2:

 

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Photos by Laura Purdie Salas

TITLE (AND ANSWER):

FLOWER

 

[Educators, please click here to see a roundup of the entire month’s riddle-ku and also to get suggestions for using these riddle-ku with your students.]

UPDATE: My riddle-ku are now available in Kindle and paperback as Riddle-ku: Haiku for Very Close Reading (along with tons of great auxiliary materials for teachers), part of the 30 PAINLESS CLASSROOM POEMS series.

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Riddle-ku: Book 2 in the 30 Painless Classroom Poems series

14 Responses

    1. Thanks, Jessica. And I’m at least standing up today, though still icky and wiped out. Reading the comments and poems is cheering me up some:>)

    1. Thanks, Jessica. And I’m at least standing up today, though still icky and wiped out. Reading the comments and poems is cheering me up some:>)

  1. Exploding yellow! Our favorite line was the “daytime fireworks.” Students guessed the sun. One student said daisy or sunflower. Happy Spring!

    1. Oooh. Sun is a great answer, actually. I think I need some kind of flower-related word in there to be a textual clue. What great feedback to help me with my revision. Please thank your students–and say congrats to the one student who guessed it (whose mind must work a bit like mine:>)

  2. Exploding yellow! Our favorite line was the “daytime fireworks.” Students guessed the sun. One student said daisy or sunflower. Happy Spring!

    1. Oooh. Sun is a great answer, actually. I think I need some kind of flower-related word in there to be a textual clue. What great feedback to help me with my revision. Please thank your students–and say congrats to the one student who guessed it (whose mind must work a bit like mine:>)

  3. My first thought was sun, then from the first picture sunflower, which promptly brought showerhead to mind. Can’t explain it, but when I see the larger sunflowers droop, I think of the “pampering” showerheads available. I doubt the students would ever get that connection. I’m a senior citizen and I’m happy that folks make allowances for a bit of silliness.

    1. Yes! I can totally see that. We have a big oversized showerhead (not as big as some of them, but bigger than traditional ones), and I am going to feel like I’m taking a sunflower shower later today. What a gift that is:>) Isn’t it fun to get to share our impressions/connections with each other?

  4. My first thought was sun, then from the first picture sunflower, which promptly brought showerhead to mind. Can’t explain it, but when I see the larger sunflowers droop, I think of the “pampering” showerheads available. I doubt the students would ever get that connection. I’m a senior citizen and I’m happy that folks make allowances for a bit of silliness.

    1. Yes! I can totally see that. We have a big oversized showerhead (not as big as some of them, but bigger than traditional ones), and I am going to feel like I’m taking a sunflower shower later today. What a gift that is:>) Isn’t it fun to get to share our impressions/connections with each other?

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