March poem

My favorite day of the year. Bar none. Thanksgiving? Lovely. Christmas? Holy. Spring? Longed for, dreamed about, celebrated... I can't help myself. More sunshine, thunderstorms, green grass, tiny shoots of pretty plants, and the garden, picnics outside, flowering trees, waking up to bird song, flowers, blue skies, laundry hung on the line and getting into a bed that smells like breezes, longer days, and nights where the cool air and sound of spring peepers lulls me to sleep through open…

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September 1964 | A. Ammons, Robert Bly, Turner Cassity, Bruce Cutler, Jean Garrigue, Philip Levine, Thomas McGrath, W. Merwin, Samuel Morse, Gilbert Sorrentino, Hayden Carruth, William Dickey, Donald Finkel, X Kennedy, Robert Sward, Phyllis Webb

This page is from a wonderful book called A Child's Calendar by John Updike. The poems and illustrations capture perfectly the feeling of each month. "Some days are fair, some days are raw." March. A month where deciding what to have for dinner is sometimes a challenge. I'm betwixt and between on a meal at this time An inspiring main course is my plight. I'm bored with the casseroles, chilis and stews, But there's nary a fresh green in sight. Here's one answer for a March meal. It has the…

Today's Poetry Friday Roundup is hosted today by Linda at Teacher Dance, a poet in her own right. I don't share poems my young readers and I really love often enough on Poetry Friday, even though we read a poetry all the time. One of our favorite poetry books is A Child's Calendar by John Updike and illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman and so I thought that since today is the first day of March, I would share the poem by the same name. Holiday House has just released a 20th Anniversary edition…

In the month of March we keep track of the outdoor temperature each day. The children learn to read a thermometer, and to plot the daily te...