Yellow
is a sun
lighting the day.
Yellow is a banana
in my stomach. Yellow
is my mother
forever cleaning
in the kitchen.
Yellow is cold
as gold. It is a rock
a child paints. A yellow blanket
wrapping a baby. It is
the smell of vegetable soup
and birthday cake. Yellow
is a duckling swimming
when the sun is setting.
By Diego, 3rd grade
Click the link above to listen to the poem read on KPFT radio by Trevor Mangum at Johnston Middle School For the Performing and Visual Arts in Houston.
This poem is featured as part of the 2013 A Poem a Day campaign, a National Poetry Month celebration by Writers in the Schools (WITS) that features a different poem by a WITS student every day during April. Click here to learn more.
Special thanks to Susan Phillips, an independent radio producer and KPFT volunteer in Houston, who recorded and produced all the poems for the WITS A Poem a Day campaign.
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