old and new
memories grow together
Spring flowers and trees
old and new
Category: Teaching Writing
National Poetry Month – April 2023
The Academy of American Poets began National Poetry Month in April 1996. I am grateful for poetry – for as long as I can remember. The Psalms, songs and music, acrostic poems, haiku, tanka, many forms.
sometimes
sometimes
poetry is a gift
plants and flowers
that grow from winter
ground in spring
reading in my study
reading in my study
many authors over time
then I look up from a page
and can write what I see
SPRING Acrostic Poem
S pring
P romises
R enewal
I nspiration and
N ew
G rowth
SPRING
Published by SMILE (2011).
still room
still room
for robins in spring
broken branch
covered with snow
by my study window
cold so very cold
cold so very cold
yet sunrise colors show me
flowers that will bloom
Poems For Bulletin Boards 