I know when to play and I know when enough is enough. And today I say to Mother Nature—STOP PLAYING
WITH ME. Send this winter weather
home. Yesterday brought blizzard weather
to upstate NY. Enough is enough. I am through with playing with you. You are calling me out to play and I am
staying inside, waiting for my warmer friend to call me out to play. In the meantime…a poem that I wrote last year
and want to resurrect to celebrate spring…bound to happen soon!
MARCH TUG-o-WAR
It’s tug-o-war time once again—
Seasons’ in a tiff.
Winter wants to have its way
Giving Spring mischief.
Yesterday was balmy—
Warm wind filled the air.
Today it’s cold and gray outside
With Winter’s lasting dare.
Back and forth they tug the rope
Each struggling to win
One day flowers a bloomin’
Next day snow begins.
“I will win this tug-o-war!”
Winter loudly gloats.
Spring keeps pulling, shouting back,
“Put away those coats!”
The war goes on and days do pass
With Winter finally tired.
So spring puts up a mighty push
To get the win desired.
The world’s awash in green and warm
As new birth fully sprouts
Spring is here in all its force
And Winter is shut out.
“Don’t be cocky, Springtime,”
Winter weakly drawls.
I’ll be back to win this war
When I can sprawl with Fall.
Spring Wins!
PLAY-TITUDE #29: CELEBRATE SPRING—EVEN WHEN WINTER WON’T LET
GO!
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Love the poem especially with the weather we had this winter I'm VA. I also wanted you to know that I love how you focused your month of writing around a word. I'm new to this challenge but quickly started looking for your posts to see what new aspect of play you were writing about each day. Thanks for being a slicer! I enjoyed your writing allonth long! My poetry unit is being planned today and I'll share your poem when I share Douglas Florian's poems - What I love/ hate about ___(each season). Great mentor text!!
ReplyDeleteI can't wait for spring either and I'm all the way down in Philadelphia. I think we're through it here, but I feel I've been waiting a LOOOONG time. Good luck. Great poem too. I love the fact that you can pull a poem from a while ago and use it. I try to get my students to see that they can re-look at old writing when the time comes.
ReplyDeleteOh, Deb! This poem came right to my mind this morning when I awoke to springtime bird songs and a winter landscape. What a treat to find it here. I, too, have loved your focus around one word this month. Congratulations, and happy almost April! xo
ReplyDeleteIt's wonderful, Deb, love that last stanza especially! I'm so glad you re-posted because I didn't see it last year! Hoping for you that spring is winning!
ReplyDeleteToday was a spring day here, she's winning the war of the season (today).
ReplyDeleteSo many of us can relate to this post and poem. Oh how we want Spring to win and put Winter in its place...at least for now. So enjoyed your posts this month.
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