Spring

Looking for poems for our Daisies to recite during a field trip to the local senior center (where they'll distribute these crafts), I came across several gems.  Not as thought-provoking as Toni Bernhard's spring quotations, they cheerfully evoke the season, which has been bumping us around from chill to rain to warmth and back again:


by Anonymous

I'm glad the sky is painted blue,

and the earth is painted green,

with such a lot of nice fresh air,

all sandwiched in between.

Mud by Polly Chase Boyden

Mud is very nice to feel

All squishy-squash between the toes!

I'd rather wade in wiggly mud

Than smell a yellow rose.

Nobody else but the rosebush knows

How nice mud feels

Between the toes.

Rain Clouds by Elizabeth-Ellen Long

Along a road

Not built by man

There winds a silent

Caravan

Of camel-clouds

Whose humped gray backs

Are weighted down

With heavy packs

Of long-awaited,

Precious rain

To make the old earth

Young again,

And dress her shabby

Fields and hills

In green grass silk

With wild-flower frills.

Good-by My Winter Suit by N.M. Bodecker

Good-by my winter suit,

good-by my hat and boot,

good-by my ear-protecting muffs

and storms that hail and hoot.

Farewell to snow and sleet,

farewell to Cream of Wheat,

farewell to ice-removing salt

and slush around my feet

Right on! to daffodils,

right on! to whippoorwills, 

right on! to chirp-producing eggs

and baby birds and quills.

The day is on the wing,

the kite is on the string,

the sun is where the sun should be--

it's spring all right! It's spring!

Spring by Karla Kuskin

I'm shouting

I'm singing

I'm swinging through trees

I'm winging sky-high

With the buzzing black bees.

I'm the sun

I'm the moon

I'm the dew on the rose.

I'm a rabbit

Whose habit

Is twitching his nose.

I'm lively

I'm lovely

I'm kicking my heels

I'm crying "Come dance"

to the freshwater eels

I'm racing through meadows

Without any coat

I'm a gamboling lamb

I'm a light leaping goat

I'm a bud

I'm a bloom

I'm a dove on the wing.

I'm running on rooftops

And welcoming spring!