Spring -- Summer -- Fall -- Winter

A selection of short American poems dealing with the four seasons and the different weather events and animal patterns that can occur within each

Ages 6-9

SPRING --

Daybreak reminds us / Cid Corman -- Spring / Raymond Souster --

The

Red Wheelbarrow / William Carlos Williams --

The

Island / Lillian Morrison -- In Passing / Gerald Jonas -- Water lily / Ralph Fletcher -- Open-billed / X. J. Kennedy -- Window / Carl Sandburg --

SUMMER --

Little orange cat / Charlotte Zolotow -- Subway rush hour / Langston Hughes --

A

Happy meeting / Joyce Sidman -- Firefly July / J. Patrick Lewis -- Sandpipers / April Halprin Wayland -- Bronze Age / Robert Morgan -- In the field forever / Robert Wallace -- Sea trade / Patricia Hubbell --

The

Moon was but a chin of gold / Emily Dickinson --

FALL --

What is it the wind has lost / Jim Harrison and Ted Kooser -- Screen door / James Stevenson -- Headline / Cid Corman -- In the alley / Alice Schertle -- Tall city / Susan Michols Pulsifer --

The

first September breeze fluttered / Liz Rosenberg -- November night / Adelaide Crapsey -- Between walls / William Carlos Williams -- Moonlight / Bruce Balan --

WINTER --

Old truck / Cynthia Pederson -- Fog / Carl Sandburg -- Uses for fog / Eve Merriam -- Dust of snow / Robert Frost -- Snow fence / Ted Kooser --

The

house-wreckers have left the door and a staircase / Charles Reznikoff --

A

wild winter wind / Anne Porter -- Night / Herbert Read --

A

welcome mat of moonlight / Jim Harrison and Ted Kooser