SOLC # 27/31 - Told To Write About Spring

          Day Twenty-Seven of the Two Writing Teachers Slice of Life Challenge. Tweet at #SOL15 And also Poetry Friday with Jone McCullough at Check It Out. Thanks, Jone!

           Also blogging with my students at Linda & Jonathan's Class Blog

        Those Things That Grow

For ‘things that grow’, I was told to care

thus I’m growing a poem right now to share.

My list lingers,

counting on my fingers,

I say ten,

then think again.

There’s shoots and roots,

and seeds a growin’

soon as rain comes, we’ll be seeing

green stems, flowers, buds keep bursting

also thirsting, just like children, needing care.

I see them growing everywhere.

First they arrive, need lullabies,

rock-a-bye-babies with gentle cries,

yet suddenly, they’re leaving home

grown to live lives on their own.

Other growing items I’ve written down

are brains and toenails and hair and towns.

Buildings grow, too, and so does knitting.

Guess my list has grown too, so now

I’m quitting!

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