Showing posts with label Hilda Conkling. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hilda Conkling. Show all posts

Thursday, August 7, 2008

Snowflake Song (Hilda Conkling, 1910-1986)

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Hilda Conkling as pictured in Poems by a Little Girl _____________________________________________________________________


Snowflakes come in fleets

Like ships over the sea.

The moon shines down on the crusty snow:

The stars make the sky sparkle like gold-fish

In a glassy bowl.




Bluebirds are gone now,

But they left their song behind them.

The moon seems to say:

It is time for summer when the birds come back

To pick up their lonesome songs.

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Hilda Conkling was a child poet; between the ages of 4-10, she would often recite her poems to her mother, who would then write them down. Eventually, Hilda's mother stopped writing the poems down.

Most of Conkling poems were written when she was a child and have to do with the natural world.

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