Poems

A Summer Poem

Posted by Sarah L. Thomson on May 23, 2024 in Animals, Poems | 0 comments

I’ve been working lately on a collection of poems united by themes of the natural world, the seasons, and clothing or textiles. Yep, clothes. Just a thing I’m playing with.

Since summer has arrived in Maine all in a rush (time to get the flannel sheets off the bed, I guess), I’m sharing one of my summer poems.

Small World

What does a worm wear?
miles of earth
deep dark tunnels
cool soft spaces

What does a firefly wear?
dim purple twilight
an endless hush
between dawn and dusk

What does a mosquito wear?
the sharpest sword

What does a cricket wear?
music

What does a honeybee wear?
heavy golden dusk
slow summer days
sweetness

Spring Poem

Posted by Sarah L. Thomson on Apr 16, 2021 in Poems | 0 comments

Thanks to FotoRieth from Pixabay for the lovely image!

It’s a cold, gloomy, rainy, SNOWY spring day up here in Maine…but it did give me a bit of inspiration for a spring poem, which I thought I’d share with you.

Party Dresses

Spring throws a party
and everyone’s going,
everyone’s wearing their best.
Daffodils nod their new golden bonnets.
Hyacinths brush up their purple-prink frills.
Tulips sashay in their deep crimson ballgowns.
Pansies slip on their soft velvet shoes.
Even the rain has been invited,
shaking her long silver hair.
Spring throws a party,
and everyone’s going.

What about you?
Come too!