Frank Asch
Frank Asch, a graduate of Cooper Union, has written and illustrated more than eighty children’s books, among them the bestselling classics featuring Moonbear and Baby Bear, Russian National Book Award recipient Here Comes the Cat, and Oppenheimer Toy Portfolio Golden Award winner Like a Windy Day. Mr. Asch lives in Hawaii. Source
Break Free
I just want to be
where the earth breaks free
of concrete and metal and glass,
of asphalt and plastic and gas,
where sun is king
and water is queen,
where cactus grow tall
and the air is clean.
I just want to be
where the earth breaks free
of fences and alleys and walls,
of factories and traffic and malls,
where owls sleep
in the heat of day
waiting for sunset
to hunt their prey,
where mountains rise
in seas of sand
and coyotes roam
across the land.
Published:
1998
Length:
Regular
Literary Movements:
Children's
Anthology Years:
2023
Themes:
Nature
Poems of Place
Literary Devices:
Anaphora
a figure of speech in which words repeat at the beginning of successive clauses, phrases, or sentences
End Rhyme
when a poem has lines ending with words that sound the same
Metaphor
a comparison between two unrelated things through a shared characteristic