Hello Sky (a children’s poem)

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Someday I’m going to climb a tree

to reach its very highest limb

and there I’ll sit and listen to

the merry music of the wind.

Spying on the world below

from my secret hiding place

I’ll chuckle softly to myself

each time a bird flies past my face.

I’ll hug a branch and sing out loud:

way up here my eyes can fly!

Then climbing down most carefully

I’ll whisper, see you later, sky.

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(c)  1970,  2012  Betty Hayes Albright

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Snow

These millions

of crispy soft stars

from above

billow and lighten,

lifting our feet

beyond the earth -

the deeper it gets

the higher we go!

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(c)  1989  Betty Hayes Albright 

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(The poem is old, but the snow is new. )

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