Day 4 Rocky Mountain Spring
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- Apr 4
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Day 4 Rocky Mountain Spring
NaPoWriMo prompt:
“In his poem, “Spring Thunder,” Mark van Doren brings us a short, haunting evocation of weather and the change in seasons. Today, we’d like to challenge you to craft your own short poem that involves a weather phenomenon and some aspect of the season. Try using rhyme and keeping your lines of roughly even length.”
Pooh Bear wrote the perfect poem for the weather in my part of the world right now, but here’s my attempt.
Rocky Mountain Spring
Outdoor soccer starts in three weeks.
Shovelling in knee-high boots today
she laughs, creates icy mountain peaks.
Magpies flit past with sticks in their beaks,
home-building while hustling crows away.
Seducing spring with many shrieks.
Indoors she digs out shorts and cleats,
looks up drills for warm-up play.
She’ll be ready, come what may.
And here’s Pooh Bear’s:
The more it
SNOWS-tiddely-pom,
The more it
GOES-tiddely-pom
The more it
GOES-tiddely-pom
On
Snowing.
And nobody
KNOWS-tiddely-pom,
How cold my
TOES-tiddely-pom
How cold my
TOES-tiddely-pom
Are
Growing
From the House at Pooh Corner by A.A. Milne
Photo was taken in May 2021 at Lake Louise, Alberta.
