NPM 2024 - Book Spine Poem 21

For National Poetry Month this year, I am perusing my bookshelves and building book spine poems.

Firefly July

Marshmallow clouds

enchanted air

Yellow umbrella

one white sail

Ice cream summer

lemonade sun

Summer beat

see me run!

Poem ©Tricia Stohr-Hunt, 2024. All rights reserved.

Sources

• Firefly July: A Year of Very Short Poems, selected by Paul B. Janeczko, illustrated by Melissa Sweet
• Marshmallow Clouds: Two Poets at Play Among Figures of Speech by Ted Kooser and Connie Wanek, illustrations by Richard Jones
• Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings: A Memoir by Margarita Engle
• Yellow Umbrella by Jae Soo Liu
• One White Sail by S.T. Garne, pictures by Lisa Etre
• Ice Cream Summer by Peter Sís
• Lemonade Sun and Other Poems by Rebecca Kai Dotlich, illustrations by Jan Spivey Gilchrist
• Summer Beat by Besty Franco, illustrations by Charlotte Middleton
• See Me Run by Paul Meisel

I hope you'll come back again to see what new poem I've cobbled together. You can find all the poems I've written this month on the Book Spine Poems page.