Poetry Friday: Golden Possibilities (by me)

 

Happy Poetry Friday! Last week, I shared "Get Smart With the Periodic Table," which recently appeared in KNOW Magazine, a Canadian science magazine for kids. The theme for the issue was the elements, and here’s the other poem I had included in that issue.

Golden Possibilities

 

Labeled Au

          Gold, assigned

Drilled out of rock

          Gold, mined

Made clean and pure

          Gold, refined

Mixed to make alloys

          Gold, combined

Shaped into rings

          Gold, designed

Buried with pharaohs

          Gold, enshrined

Sunlight in metal

          Gold, undefined

 


–Laura Purdie Salas, all rights reserved

Poet/librarian/photographer Andi has the roundup at A Wrung Sponge today!

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