Antics of Dream Flyers
Gymnastic
Published in
Nov 16, 2021
A poem of dreamtime flying, corresponding to the oral cues and illustration of Lynette S., 4th grade, Poets-in-the-Schools.
Lynette’s birthday gift was a canopy bed.
She’d never dreamed of such a thing —
ruffles all around, pink satin overhead!
What happened next was quite surprising:
When she bounced,
testing the mattress and self-expressing,
the whole bed trembled,
excited as she was, and lifted . . .
several inches off the floor!
What more could a birthday girl ask for?
That night the canopy bed began to fly . . .
up to the ceiling, up to the sky!
She flew from curfew
through the night,
right into the next-day morning.
“Gymnastic” originally published in Antics of Dream Flyers, © 2016 Margaret Honton, Sophia Books, Pueblo, CO.
