Today's prompts from Write Better Poetry and NaPoWriMo: (1) Write a "friend" poem, and (2) "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."
Here's a simple rhyming verse that's inspired in part by the sample poem the Maureen offered, "Spring Thunder" by Mark Van Doren. (Trivia fact: He was a Pulitzer Prize winner, but also known as the father of Charles Van Doren, who was involved in the TV quiz show scandal of the 1950s, as depicted in the film "Quiz Show." Paul Scofield played Mark Van Doren and Ralph Fiennes played his son Charles.)
Early April
O April, old and fickle friend,
Today you set the fashion trend—
T-shirt and shorts this summ’ry day.
Tomorrow, though, they go away
for winter coat and knit wool cap.
I watch with awe the weather map,
The war of warm and cold’s begun,
The battles—wind and rain and sun.
The trees have blossomed, but I know
you could betray us with spring snow.
And yet, when August bakes me red,
I’ll wish I had you back instead.
Today you set the fashion trend—
T-shirt and shorts this summ’ry day.
Tomorrow, though, they go away
for winter coat and knit wool cap.
I watch with awe the weather map,
The war of warm and cold’s begun,
The battles—wind and rain and sun.
The trees have blossomed, but I know
you could betray us with spring snow.
And yet, when August bakes me red,
I’ll wish I had you back instead.
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