Today, we’re happy to share a collection of classic and contemporary March poems !
March is very much an in-between time. Some years, March warmly welcomes us into Spring, while in other years, she may leave us still in the depths of winter. Perhaps a good way to conceive of March is as a liminal space. This is true in the church calendar as well. This year, Lent will fill all of March, with Palm Sunday falling on March 29. We cannot rush ahead to Easter and resurrection just yet.
The March poems we’ve collected here explore seasonality, the challenge of patience, and the themes of Lent. We’ve also included poems for Women’s History Month and St. Patrick’s Day.
Featuring poems by Emily Dickinson, Gwendolyn Brooks, Ada Limón, William Butler Yeats, and more!
March Wind
Edwin Ford Piper
The moody wind–is this its grudge day? Whoo!
Against the dusty sky, in the late sun,
A veering flock of mottled pigeons bounce
From the shoulders of a gust. In our village street
The captious wind runs races with itself,
As a dog pursues its tail; with brute persistence
It buffets leafless elm and maple bough,
Tears at the stuff-armed oak.
From the window-pane
Little Fred looks for his father–he grew tired
Of playing outdoors with so rude a comrade;
For the wind hustles, keeps on pushing people,
Makes the street a barrier to neighboring houses,
Besieges timid folk.
Now the reddish sun
Abandons the world to the wind. In alien twilight
He whistles at keyhole, hisses at the window,
Makes all the timbers groan, exults–cuwoof!
Our lamplight in the kitchen shudders, staggers,
As Burton blows in from the writhing darkness,
And sets both knee and shoulder to the door
To force it shut.
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