Showing posts with label rain. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rain. Show all posts

Friday, March 11, 2016

Poetry Friday -- Worms on the Sidewalk


Flickr Creative Commons Photo by Kurt Bauschardt
Advice 
by Dan Gerber

You know how, after it rains,
my father told me one August afternoon
when I struggled with something
hurtful my best friend had said,
how worms come out and
crawl all over the sidewalk
and it stays a big mess
a long time after it’s over
if you step on them?

(the rest of the poem is at American Life in Poetry)


It's been warm and rainy and the worms are out on the sidewalks. Two fourth grade girls walking out to the buses this afternoon were having a grand time squealing every time they saw one. All the while, I sent out silent wishes that the carelessly tramping feet would miss all the humble worms who had been rained out onto the sidewalk on a warm March afternoon.

Irene has the Poetry Friday roundup this week at Live Your Poem.


Friday, June 01, 2012

Poetry Friday -- Rain

Flickr Creative Commons photo by kicksave2930


RAIN

It is finally raining.
After a long period
of unseasonable heat
and
unending dryness,
it is finally raining.

The relief
of the grass, the trees,
the native plants who are expected to survive
without extra watering
is nearly palpable.



Jack Black is helping Carol host the Poetry Friday roundup at Carol's Corner (and dug up back yard).

Wednesday, April 04, 2012

SPRING IS A QUICK CHANGE ARTIST



SPRING IS A QUICK CHANGE ARTIST

sky
darkens
thunder
comes
rain
pounds 
down

sky
lightens
clouds
part
chirps
sound
'round

© Mary Lee Hahn, 2012







Poem #4, National Poetry Month, 2012

Cathy, at Merely Day By Day, is joining me in a poem a day this month. Other daily poem writers include Amy at The Poem Farm, Linda at TeacherDance, Donna at Mainely Write, Laura at Writing the World for Kids (daily haiku), Liz at Liz in Ink (daily haiku), Sara at Read Write Believe (daily haiku)...and YOU?