Seasons flow alongside our ever-changing lives.
As fresh spring days slide into summer’s steamy nights, we fall in and out of love. Autumnal glows fade into winter’s crisp, whispering winds, and we prepare for another year of transitions. Yet, every change grants us the opportunity to embrace what was and honor what is arriving.
This is the very reason that poets have always turned to the natural world for a muse. Each season’s own unique energy adds life to their verses. Bringing us through the ebbs and flows of Earth’s cycles helps us understand that we are not alone during our seasons of transition.
Even the most powerful force we know, Mother Nature herself, has seasons of withering and blooming.
Whether you’re feeling more like a “red, red rose” or “the heat of autumn”, there is a poem to reflect your truth. This selection of poetry has been handcrafted to help you tend to the evolutions within nature and the earth within. The shifts you feel are not only natural, they’re handcrafted for your growth!
SPRING
Spring by William Blake
Today by Billy Collins
Sonnet 98 by William Shakespeare
Spring Quiet by Christina Rossetti
In Perpetual Spring by Amy Gerstler
SUMMER
The Pond by Mary Oliver
Summer Night, Riverside by Sara Teasdale
From Blossoms by Li-Young Lee
summer, somewhere by Danez Smith
The Summer I Was Sixteen by Geraldine Connolly
AUTUMN
the lesson of falling leaves by Lucille Clifton (pictured right)
Autumn Leaves by Marilyn Chin
The Changing Light by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Autumn by Amy Lowell
To Autumn by John Keats
WINTER
Winter Trees by Sylvia Plath
Choices by Tess Gallagher
Winter-Time by Robert Louis Stevenson
Spellbound by Emily Brontë
Winter Love by Linda Gregg
