March 2026 Slice of Life, No. 1
Yesterday, I said “Goodbye” to February. Today, I say “Hello” to March. For several weeks I’ve been looking for signs of spring, and what I saw called for a poem.
SPRING
Cold melts away
Sun rises earlier
Grass grows green
Leaves unfurl
Blossoms lift their heads
Daffodils dress in yellow
Crocuses in purple
Tulips wave red, yellow, pink
Robins pull worms
Songbirds sing
Squirrels scamper
Summer’s coming
–Alice Nine
Writing about my writing
What inspired my poem
It was a warm March afternoon, and over a hundred robins had spent a few days in our backyard. They covered the lawn. They rested on our chain link fence and on the bare branches of the walnut tree. They flew from ground to tree, and back again. I stood so still beneath the spreading branches of the walnut tree that the robins ignored me and there, I sketched a robin resting on a branch, and then I got a cup of coffee and sat at my kitchen table and drafted a poem. I called it “Spring” because my mother always watched for the return of the robins to celebrate that winter was almost over. Robins are heralds of spring.
Robin in the Walnut Tree
How I crafted my poem
I chose to name things that I see in the first days of spring. Then I brainstormed verbs to go with those nouns. I asked myself what those nouns do in the spring. I paired these together–nouns and verbs–to form the basic lines of the poem. I added some modifiers and complements. I then chose to bookend my poem with a reference to the seasons that bookend spring. Cold melts away evokes winter at the beginning of the poem; Summer’s coming, the closing line, looks forward.
Robin in my Backyard
Volunteer Daffodils in my Yard
Grape Hyacinth Borders Our Walk
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