Nature Poems

These are the ten poems I choose for today:

"Roses" by George Eliot
"Summer Serenade" by Odgen Nash
"Sermon of an Elder Catfish" by Miles Garrett Watson
"The Sloth" by Theodore Roethke
"Lost" by David Wagoner
"Maples" by Judith Pordon
"The Shapes of Leaves" by Arthur Sze
"Fancies" by Lucy Maud Montgomery
"Heavenly Grass" Tennessee Williams
"Leaves Before the Wind" by May Sarton

Again, I have chosen poems that are mostly about things in nature. Two that I have chosen to talk about are "Roses" and "Summer Serenade". I like these two because they are so upbeat. When reading them, it reminded me of the summer and happy times. For instance, "Summer Serenade" ends on a happy note by saying, "If we must melt, let's melt together!" This is talking about a nice summer thunderstorm and these two people are about to get wet from the rain.

In the poem "Roses", Eliot writes, "I wish the sky would rain down roses, as they rain from off the shaken bush." When a reader reads this, they can imagine these nice, soft roses falling from the sky and dancing around in them as they lay on the ground. It seems as if one can feel only happy after reading these poems.