Sheri Doyle
2013 Poetry Month « April Halprin Wayland – Children's Book Author & Poet
Commas Have Wings: Children's Poetry Through the Eyes of a Naturalist
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We’ve had a stunning autumn — the maples in my neighborhood are a more intense gold and crimson than I’ve ever seen outside of New Hampshire. Sadly, today’s wind and rain will bring down the last of the leaves on most of the trees. Except our oak. We have an enormous oak in our yard that stubbornly waits until winter to drop its leaves. Stubbornness seems to be an oak character trait because Robert Frost calls out an oak for this behavior:
The leaves are all dead on the ground, Save those that the oak is keeping To ravel them one by one And let them go scraping and creeping Out over the crusted snow, When others are sleeping.
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Sheri Doyle
2013 Poetry Month « April Halprin Wayland – Children's Book Author & Poet
Commas Have Wings: Children's Poetry Through the Eyes of a Naturalist