If you have ever seen the colored lights made by small crystals hung in your window, you and your children may have already lived this story.

CRYSTAL RAINBOWS
By Bill Kirk
(Published in Saplings magazine in January 2005)

In my bedroom window
Upstairs and down the hall,
Hang two magic crystals—
A teardrop and a ball.

In the morning sunlight
With curtains open wide,
The crystals cast their magic,
On walls, from side to side.

Red and blue and yellow,
Each rainbow has its place.
But when I twirl the crystals,
Around the room they race.

Like multi-colored fireflies
They dance and flit and spin;
While through the open window,
The morning sun beams in.

But slowly rainbows fade away
As sun climbs in the sky.
Please, hurry back another day
So I can watch you fly.

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