Iva Ticic’s Perfect Poems: Springtime

spring-276014_960_720Happy Spring!

This one is for children who like it when things melt, new things blossom, temperature rises and short sleeves are in again: Welcome to Spring! 

To celebrate the new season I’d like to offer you a beautiful, fun poem for the occasion. Let these lines roll off your tongue, have fun reading them in the backyard or bring them along on a springtime picnic. Either way, your kids will love them.

Poetry is alive. Don’t let it just end with a singled reading. Let the seeds grow!

Wondering what to do after you read?

Best lines to memorize:

Little white snowdrop just waking up,
Violet, daisy, and sweet buttercup,
Think of the flowers that are under the snow,
Waiting to grow!

Want to help your kids connect to poetry and nature?

Consider finding these flowers from the poem and find on the meadow or garden afterwards:

Snowdrop, violet, daisy, buttercup

Things that are meaningful, deep and to be discussed:

Seeds growing, roots sprouting, life cycles, birth. 

Without further ado, here is my perfect springtime poem for you and yours:

Waiting to Grow
by Frank French

Little white snowdrop just waking up,
Violet, daisy, and sweet buttercup,
Think of the flowers that are under the snow,
Waiting to grow!

And think what a number of queer little seeds,
Of flowers and mosses, of ferns and of weeds,
Are under the leaves and under the snow,
Waiting to grow!

Think of the roots getting ready to sprout,
Reaching their slender brown fingers about,
Under the ice and the leaves and the snow,
Waiting to grow!

No seed is so small, or hidden so well,
That God cannot find it; and soon he will tell
His sun where to shine, and His rain where to go,
Making it grow!


Photo is public domain by Larisa-K

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