Yellow Dress Day
In the yellow air of summer
with sunshine everywhere,
go and ask a sunflower
how good it feels to wear a yellow dress.
Ilaria’s in the garden
near the sunflower patch,
offering her friendship,
showing them her yellow summer dress.
The sun is climbing higher;
the flowers turn their heads.
In front of them Ilaria
is pirouetting in her yellow dress.
Midday’s yellow sunbeams
have caught Ilaria’s hair.
The sunflowers watch her turning,
radiant in summer yellowness.
with sunshine everywhere,
go and ask a sunflower
how good it feels to wear a yellow dress.
Ilaria’s in the garden
near the sunflower patch,
offering her friendship,
showing them her yellow summer dress.
The sun is climbing higher;
the flowers turn their heads.
In front of them Ilaria
is pirouetting in her yellow dress.
Midday’s yellow sunbeams
have caught Ilaria’s hair.
The sunflowers watch her turning,
radiant in summer yellowness.
This poem is copyright (©) Kate ONeil 2025
About the Writer
Kate ONeil
Kate O’Neil lives in the Illawarra region of NSW and writes poetry for children and adults. Her poems appear in magazines such as The NSW School Magazine and The Caterpillar, and anthologies by Roger McGough, Roger Stevens, Matt Goodfellow, Mandy Coe and The Emma Press. In 2018 her ‘Cool Poems: the Kate O’Neil Reciter’, was published by Triple D Books Wagga Wagga.
