Poems for September

This is beautiful, and so poignant.

I've printed it off & put on the walls near our nursing offices.

Thank you so much for putting in to words how so many people feel.

I would love to write poems with my group but afraid it may be a bit too demanding. Our group is starting back in September so I am going to read or we will read together 2 poems abbout grandchildren starting school and see if they want to try a pooem tof their own to someone special. https://www.goldencarers.com/dear-teacher-poem/5989/

Thank you for sharing your comments and poems!

It is National Poetry Day in UK next month (4 October) and there are some good ideas here -

https://nationalpoetryday.co.uk/about-npd

Thanks,

My Life as a Scarecrow

Emily Dickinson Poetry Club

St. Catherine’s, Caldwell, NJ

I’m a scarecrow out in a cornfield

With arms outstretched big and wide.

I look up and down the narrow rows

And see a blackbird hide.

I wave my arms and give a shout

As the blackbird soars

I warn “Keep Out!”

September poem by our residents

Autumn Beckons

By the Emily Dickinson Poetry Club

of St. Catherine’s, Caldwell, New Jersey

I heard soft autumn calling

I gazed upon her face,

Then boughs of orange and yellow

reached out in warm embrace

The fruit of summers’ sunshine

hung heavy on the trees,

The apples in the orchard

beckoned for release.

In country lanes and fields

bright pumpkins decked the ground,

An orange array of gourdish shapes

lay on umber brown.

A group of school aged children

hurried off to class,

To tell their stories of summer

and how they’d wish it last!

How special are the days of fall

each moment in September

The colors, sounds and lovely sights

I always will remember.

how about some Australian ideas

I am going to do this activity this week. I love Poetry and i hope the residents will enjoy it.

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