We’re a week into May 2025 and although some things have already been celebrated (May Day on May 1, National Space Day May 2, National Wordsmith Day May 3 & Star Wars Day May 4) there is still so much left to acknowledge and celebrate this month.
Mother’s Day May 11, Limerick Day on May 12, Dance Like a Chicken Day on May 14 (would LOVE to see some photos with this one!), Love A Tree Day May 16 and National Sorry Day May 26.
Please email your poems for May to @ozchildrenspoetry.
Hey, Mr Sunshine,
where are you today?
Rain is falling heavily,
the sky is dark and grey.
All the kids are stuck inside
with nowhere to play.
Hey, Mr Sunshine,
please come back one day.
Hey, Mr Sunshine,
welcome back today.
The sky is blue and clear and bright,
the rain has gone away.
Now the kids can run outside
to laugh and sing and play.
Thanks, Mr Sunshine,
sure beats yesterday!
I can’t go out to play today,
it’s raining very hard.
And it rained the day before as well
and flooded my backyard.
My shoes are wet,
my socks are soaked,
my boots are green with mould —
I wonder how much water
this world of ours can hold?
Photo by Pixabay
We’ve had SO much rain around the country lately that I thought it might be good to write about what you do, see, feel and think about on those rainy days. Do you jump in puddles, wait for rainbows, catch the river rising, surf the waves after the storm, listen to the sound of rain on your tin roof, or do you sit quietly watching the drops running down a window pane?
Send your rainy day poems to ozchildrenspoetry@gmail.com
Photo by Atahan Demir from Pexels.
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