Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Spring Poems

First Crocus

This morning, flowers cracked open
the earth’s brown shell. Spring
leaves spilled everywhere
though winter’s stern hand
could come down again at any moment
to break the delicate yolk
of a new bloom.

The crocus don’t see this as they chatter
beneath a cheerful petal of spring sky.
They ignore the air’s brisk arm
as they peer at their fresh stems, step
on the leftover fragments
of old leaves.

When the night wind twists them to pieces,
they will die like this: laughing,
tossing their brilliant heads
in the bitter air.

by Christine Klocek-Lim


After looking closely at this poem, we went outside and wrote spring poems of our own.

13 comments:

  1. Wrecked

    Now it’s wrecked,
    The one light breeze,
    Has wrecked it all,
    It was so clear,
    So still,
    Till something,
    Lighter then air,
    Felt that it had,
    To destroy the masterpiece.
    I had finally found,
    Art that I liked,
    When it rippled,
    And faded away.
    Now,
    I will never see the bottom,
    Now,
    None of the mysteries,
    Will ever be solved,
    And now that,
    The wind has stopped,
    The only thing I see,
    Is my reflection,
    Looking for an answer,
    To all my questions,
    In the water.

    SW

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  2. Bugs
    Those little buggers
    Will swoop all around
    Under your pencil
    Until they get squashed,
    They gum up your paper
    With their bodily slime.
    -Eli

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  3. Spring


    Calm
    Like a bodega
    Warm
    Like toasted biscuits
    Happiness all through
    One spring day
    CM

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  4. Green

    New green grass
    Now growing and showing
    Instead of white cold snow
    And the dirt is now here
    So the bugs can walk
    In the fresh turned soil

    MW

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  5. SPRING
    It’s that remarkable time of year.
    Leaves are budding
    Bird are chirping
    Kids are playing until
    Night hushes them,
    Tucks them into bed
    With a blanket
    And kisses them
    Good rest.

    FC

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  6. Warm breeze
    Finally, o so good
    Warmth that doesn’t come from a fire place
    Family reunions, gathering, berry picking, canoeing, and kayaking.
    All smells of happiness.


    SPRING!!!
    JB

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  7. Swift

    The green grass is
    the first sign,
    that makes me think
    "Spring is here,
    I can finally be,
    the free rider,
    I once was".

    HC

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  8. Leaves

    As the wind blows
    I am carried
    to a new place
    and see
    new things,
    but when
    the wind dies
    I am stuck
    in this place
    until
    the next wind
    happens.

    DB

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  9. Sitting on the Dock

    The first boat
    of spring
    sails on the pond.
    the ice has finally
    gone away,
    melted,
    and the water has
    revealed itself,
    revealed it’s blue,
    bold
    self.

    GJ

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  10. Apis mellifera Linnaeus

    One of
    the few
    insects
    to help
    young buds
    grow,
    but
    harmful
    to all other
    living creature


    KB

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  11. WALK RIGHT IN TO IT

    Walked into that big,
    Big,
    Field of beauty,
    Beauty,
    So pure,
    Didn’t have a thought,
    In my head,
    That wasn’t
    Look at that!
    Knew,
    That I wanted to stay,
    But also,
    That if I didn’t leave
    Soon,
    I would never,
    Be able,
    To come back.

    AS

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  12. Spring

    As I look across the field,
    I see the twisted and tangled branches,
    And the thin trees with white
    Papery
    Bark
    Wrapped around them,
    The light breeze sweeps strands of hair into my face,
    When spring comes I get the sensational feeling of something new,
    Something
    Important.
    HW

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  13. Forest

    The trees.
    They’re hunched
    And grumbling.
    Like your
    Crabby neighbor.
    They huddle together
    But leave a path
    For the young.
    Beware
    They give
    No mercy
    To ignorant fools
    Who try to spoil
    Those
    Deep

    Dark

    Secrets within.
    WA

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