Arnold Adoff Seasons Poem

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Introduction: This poem describes clouds and thunderstorms, it would be best to share this poem during thunderstorm season or while learning about weather. This would also be a fun poem to have students perform.(click "What is poetry performance" from my home page)

Clouds Are Black

And
Dark Green This Afternoon
And They
Are Sitting Over Our Town
Just Rumb l i n g
Away

With Their Bragging
N o i s e

Who Ordered
The Thunder
Who Ordered That Flash Of Lightning
Flashing From The
West
Who Ordered The Rest Of This Dark Sky

Who Asked This S t o r m To S t a y

by Arnold Adoff
from "In for Winter, Out for Spring"
by Arnold Adoff and Jerry Pinkney
(Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Publishers, 1991)

Extension: After reading this poem to your class it would be fun to have the students draw a picture of the storm they thought of when they heard the poem.