Tulips Know Today Brings Spring! #354

Tulip Decisions

by Amy LV

Students - If you have never planted tulips, one of the interesting things about them is that they are bulbs.  You plant tulip bulbs in the fall and waits all winter for them to pop up and announce spring.  Every spring, I say to myself, "Oh!  I should have planted more tulips!"

This poem is a lot like poem #272, "Perfect Timing."  It is fun to examine the same idea and thought with different words.  This poem, like that one, is a wondering poem.  If you write a poem every day, you will find that many of your thoughts circle 'round and find different words to say and wonder and examine and hope the same thing.

What do you wonder about nature?  What small things did you walk by this morning that made you pause and think?  Those small things are the stuff of writing.

Today is the first day of spring!  Happy Equinox!

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Tulips are Waiting for Spring - Poem #272

Very Patient Tulip Bulbs

Photo by Amy LV

We have these two bags of bulbs hanging in our basement, bulbs I purchased in the fall and never planted.  It looks as if our area will have a thaw this week, so maybe we will get them into the ground after all!  These tulips all purples and blues, so if they make it, the show should be quite dramatic.  You can see their little hints of green peeking out already!

Students - I have always been amazed by spring flowers and how they know when to burst into blossom.  It's almost as if each consults a tiny calendar and wears an itty-bitty wristwatch.  Today's poem grew from my amazement at nature and also these bulbs I hope to plant.  Too, I love John Travers Moore's poem, "Springburst," a poem about a flower in the shape of a flower, meant to be read from the bottom, just like a flower grows.

One thing I have always wanted to do is force bulbs indoors.  Each Christmas, I say that I will give ready-to-bloom-flowers as Christmas gifts, but I have yet to do this.  Maybe next year!  If you are interested in trying this yourself, The Garden Helper offers some good tips.

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