Antics of Dream Flyers
Acrobatic
Published in
Dec 6, 2021
A poem of dreamtime flying, corresponding to the oral cues and illustration of Donnie K., 4th grade, Poets-in-the-Schools.
I guess everyone wants to run away
and be a circus performer some day.
But I don’t run, I become one —
DONNIE WHO DARES (in my dreaming).
I ride my unicycle on a high wire,
scaring the audience below.
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀Yet I hate to hear strangers screaming,
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀He’s going to fall! What? Never!
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀But I could make it part of the show:
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀lose my balance . . fall . . . recover . . .
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀And fly around the Big Top,
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀then up to the sky and never stop . . .
“Acrobatic” originally published in Antics of Dream Flyers, © 2016 Margaret Honton, Sophia Books, Pueblo, CO.
