Happy National Poetry Month! I have set a goal to write a poem a day for this month. I will also be featuring classroom poets and other fun poetry happenings. I’ll be part of the Progressive Poem, so hit the link on the sidebar to see how the collaborative poem is progressing. Greg at GottaBook is posting a poem a day. Today is a delightful spring poem from Mary Lee Hahn.
As we drove home from Austin yesterday, Easter Day, I enjoyed the blankets of bluebonnets that line the highway between Austin and Bastrop. An acrostic poem is one in which the lines begin with the letters that spell a word, usually the theme of the poem.
Blanket of blue
lines the highway
under a cloudy Texas sky.
Every pod pops
blue topped with promise
of more blossoms
nudging up, nodding to the day,
nestled with fiery Indian paintbrush,
elegantly announcing
the arrival of spring.
Reflections on the Teche 
I miss bluebonnets! (taught my first 2 years in Dallas)
This is a perfect mentor text for an acrostic. It’s so hard to get kids to stop writing lists of words and start writing a POEM that makes SENSE!
Mary Lee, thanks for stopping by. I love your green door poem today. Such hope and brightness.
I’d love to see the bluebonnets some day. They are so pretty. I like that “blue topped with promise”, Margaret.