I love just picking up any poem that speaks to me and sharing it with the kids. But I also like choosing poems that especially call to mind the seasons and upcoming holidays.
Here are our favorite poems for October and November that bring to mind the joys of the season: the spookiness of Halloween, the crispness of ripe apples, the nip of frost in the air, and the colors of the changing leaves.
Something Told the Wild Geese by Rachel Field
The Oven Bird by Robert Frost
Late October by Sara Teasdale
When the Frost is on the Punkin by James Whitcomb Riley
The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
The Hag by Robert Herrick
Song of the Witches: “Double, double toil and trouble” by William Shakespeare
hist whist by ee cummings
The Witches' Ride by Karla Kuskin
What is Orange? By Mary O'Neill
Theme in Yellow by Carl Sandburg
Autumn by William Jay Smith
Autumn by Emily Dickinson
Dusk in Autumn by Sara Teasdale
The Oak by Alfred Lord Tennyson
Autumn Thoughts by John Greenleaf Whittier
Song for Autumn by Mary Oliver
To Autumn by John Keats
November by Walter de la Mare
The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost
Thanksgiving Time by Langston Hughes
The New-England Boy's Song about Thanksgiving Day by Lydia Maria Child
What are your poetry favorites for fall?
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I love your practice. Reading a poem aloud every day, letting the poems' music and meaning effortlessly find a way in five days in a row, is a lovely tradition.
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