by Alison Yoder
Take a stroll
through the wooded ground
where sits her cabin still.
There the moth and butterfly
on nectar sip their fill.
Take a seat
by Chinkapin Oak
where birds their song compose,
with chirps, warbles, twills, and caws
in Spring and Summer Prose.
Take a sweep
through flowered fields
of blossoms sweet and wild.
Trillium, Violet, Shooting Star
display their grace in style.
Take a step
through Gene’s lush world,
where flit the dragonflies.
There the Great Horned Owl awaits.
She calls and he replies.
Alison is a 4th grade teacher at Adams Central Elementary School. Her class was studying Gene Stratton Porter, talking about nature and her homes in Geneva and Rome City. The class assignment was to write a poem inspired by what they had learned. This was Alison’s submission.
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