3 Perfect Poems for Climate Changing April
Fossil-Fueled April Showers May Bring Flowers Earlier & Warmer Than Average
Gotcha! There’s no such thing as “Perfect,” except for you. You’re perfect.
1. “Little Lion Face” by May Swenson
lover, hot light.
Gold corona, widen to sky.
I hold you lion in my eye
sunup until night.
2. “Advice to a Prophet” by Richard Wilbur
Ask us, ask us whether with the worldless rose
Our hearts shall fail us; come demanding
Whether there shall be lofty or long standing
When the bronze annals of the oak-tree close.
3. “In April” by James Hearst
This I saw on an April day:
Warm rain spilt from a sun-lined cloud,
A sky-flung wave of gold at evening,
And a cock pheasant treading a dusty path
Shy and proud.