Summer Poem: Mask by Carl Sandburg

IMG_2291This poem by Carl Sandburg makes me think of all the outdoor festivals – concerts at the parks, music at fairs, giant music festivals and radios playing in beat up cars!

 

Mask, by Carl Sandburg

Fling your red scarf faster and faster, dancer.
It is summer and the sun loves a million green leaves,
masses of green.
Your red scarf flashes across them calling and a-calling.
The silk and flare of it is a great soprano leading a
chorus
Carried along in a rouse of voices reaching for the heart
of the world.
Your toes are singing to meet the song of your arms:

Let the red scarf go swifter.
Summer and the sun command you.