Beautiful Words for April

My kindergarten students recite this poem each April, but also like to use it as a prompt for their journals, because of course, five and six year olds certainly have their own feelings about rain:

Let the rain kiss you

Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops

Let the rain sing you a lullaby

The rain makes still pools on the sidewalk

The rain makes running pools in the gutter

The rain plays a little sleep-song on our roof at night

And I love the rain.

- Langston Hughes, 1902-1967, April Rain Song