Why poetry?

Poetry (I'm learning now I've graduated) isn't something you run across often outside of the classroom. But poetry is meant for more than just Monday, Wednesday, Friday from 3:00-4:00 so here is a place to always find poems and suggestions of more places to seek them out. You can agree or disagree with my choices, but my hope is that you'll be inspired to let poetry (the poems I find or ones you find on your own) be a part of your every day.

Friday, September 2, 2011

"Wind on the Hill" by A. A. Milne

What a terrible blog mother I've been! Neglecting it for months! But whether you're in school or not, September feels like a time to start over.  Oh poor blog. Perhaps if I buy it a new lunch box with a generic superhero on the front it will forgive me? Either way, I will ask for forgiveness and try again. And in honor of school starting, I'm resorting to one of my favorite groups of poems - children's poetry. I hope it makes you think of circle time and new pencil smell...

Wind on the Hill
by A.A. Milne

No one can tell me,
Nobody knows,
Where the wind comes from,
Where the wind goes.

It's flying from somewhere
As fast as it can,
I couldn't keep up with it,
Not if I ran.

But if I stopped holding
The string of my kite,
It would blow with the wind
For a day and a night.

And then when I found it,
Wherever it blew,
I should know that the wind
Had been going there too.

So then I could tell them
Where the wind goes...
But where the wind comes from
Nobody knows.