The Garden of Verse Stirs Up the Garden of the Seasons: Three Poems on the Many Faces of March

The March 2021 issue of Verse-Virtual offers poems by 71 poets, an astonishing number and range of participants. In tune with the season, editor Jim Lewis chose an optional theme of "lions and lambs."

 I offered three poems written in March of last year, right before (and as) everything changed. While I didn’t quite enjamb the “lambs” in any of these, I did get “sheepish” in one of these poems. And in another I gave pride of place, in its conclusion, to "lions."

The poem "Sipping About" laments the absence of normal 'spring weather,' whatever that is. And also takes note of what was, last year, an almost snowless winter.  Here's the beginning:

Skipping About 

All winter freakishly quiet 
as if someone had put a bag
over its mouth 
and told it, sternly, 
to calm down, 

we have other things to think about...

Lions come in for a cameo at the end of this poem. 

          The poem "Stoppage" bears witness to that strangest of moments last year when the world seemed to stop. Here's the beginning. 

Stoppage

Sometime 
Thursday afternoon
 
They canceled the world
The trees began disappearing from 
my neighbor's yard, one by
incautious one,
forced to stop growing
by powers who knew better 
 
The cars on the street sheepishly parked in front 
of neighbors’ houses by those 
who have too many vehicles 
for their driveways 
strangely disappear 
and, 
       already, 
           I miss them 

To read the rest of these two poems, 

and the whole of the poem "March Winds"

go here Robert Knox  

To access the full range of poems available in 

the March 2021 issue, see Poems and Articles