Well, Poetry Paraders, this day has been in the forecast for quite some time. We're talking frosty mornings, frozen walkways, and frolicking in the snow! We're talking blustery winds, blizzards, and brrr! We're talking winter poems! In Names for Snow, a beautifully written and illustrated picture book from the LMC collection, a mother rabbit teaches a little rabbit the many names snow can be given. Whether or not you like winter weather-- and even if some of your personal Names for Snow haven't been very nice lately, today we celebrate winter and the poetry it inspires. We're thinking about the sledding, the shoveling, the shimmering, the shivering, the sipping, the slipping, the snowmen, the slushing, and the ssshhh hush of snow falling on a safe-inside-your-house February night. Today's two poems, from Winter Eyes: Poems and Paintings by Douglas Florian, share different reasons for liking-- and disliking-- the season:
WHAT I LOVE ABOUT WINTER
Frozen lakes
Hot pancakes
Lots of snow
Hot cocoa
Skates and skis
Evergreen trees
Funny hats
Thermostats
Sunset blaze
Holidays
Snowball fights
Fireplace nights
Chimneys steaming
Winter dreaming
WHAT I HATE ABOUT WINTER
Frozen toes
Running nose
Sloppy slush
Holiday crush
15 below
Shoveling snow
Leafless trees
Cough and wheeze
Shorter day
Less time to play
Salt-spreading tractors
Windchill factors
No place to go--
Winter is slow
Can you think of any new Names for Snow? We've named the snow that the plow drops at the end of our driveway Big Bad Boulder Snow; the snow that taps on our windowpane Sleety Sno-cone Snow; and the snow that flutters and flurries around our heads in the morning Magic Spell Snow.
What do you love-- and hate-- about winter? Make some hot chocolate, curl up with your imagination, create a list poem, and share it!
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