Along with those, you'll find inspiring sayings like Thomas Tusser's “Sweet April showers do spring May flowers” and Harriet ...

Some of the best poets of spring are masters of the minor key. So it's no surprise that the famously dour Philip Larkin wrote two of the finest... Springtime is the season of renewal, but it can also ...

A year after asking readers to reflect on the coronavirus pandemic for KidsPost’s annual poetry contest, we decided that a more uplifting theme is in order this year. So we asked kids, ages 6 to 14, ...

DEAR READERS: Wishing you and your families a very happy Easter and Passover. Spring is a time to get outdoors and play. It is a time for new beginnings and fresh starts. It is a time when the flowers ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. This unique scroll, over thirty-six feet long, is filled with poems and illustrations celebrating springtime, when ...

Click to open image viewer. This unique scroll, over thirty-six feet long, is filled with poems and illustrations celebrating springtime, when Kama, god of love, evokes passion in the hearts of all.

With its varying accentual lines, the poem evokes the fact that despair will always see ruin, even when faced with beauty and renewal: April as its own cruel April Fool’s Day joke.