Moods Sorono after your late-morning nap.
you hold Mama's hand down the stairs
and gaze around with drowsy eyes.
You wield a smile at each of us,
a stately flourish of your cheerfulness.
Wobbly on your pint-sized legs.
you toddle around the kitchen
and tumble over a forgotten stick-
your smiles dissolve in an instant.
exchanged for indignant tears.
Look at the underlined pairs of lines on
pages 1 and 2.
Click or tap the ONE underlined pair on
these pages that shows an example of
personification.
Soothed by a quick embrace,
you sit peacefully at the table
and ready your toy horses for a race.
You babble merrily
as you tell me their names.
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