HAPPY MAY (?)

For some reasons I’ve only been able to find ambivalent poems about the month….

May

BY JONATHAN GALASSI

The backyard apple tree gets sad so soon,

takes on a used-up, feather-duster look

within a week.

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The ivy’s spring reconnaissance campaign

sends red feelers out and up and down

to find the sun.

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Read rest of poem at The Poetry Foundation

May

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Sara Teasdale

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The wind is tossing the lilacs,
The new leaves laugh in the sun,
And the petals fall on the orchard wall,
But for me the spring is done.

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Read rest of poem at PoemHunter

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