This poem is submitted for Bill West’s Fifth Annual Great
Genealogy Poetry Challenge.
You can read
all about it at this page:
Bertha Louise (Roberts) Wilkinson 1897 - 1990 |
My grandmother, Bertha Louise Roberts, came to Massachusetts
from Yorkshire, England in 1915. She married my grandfather, Donald Munroe
Wilkinson, in Beverly, Massachusetts in 1925.
In England, she trained to be a children’s nurse (a Nanny) when she was
only twelve years old. She was always a terrific story teller, and could recite
dozens of poems. She dreamed of writing
poetry and being a poet. I've submitted
some of her other poems here for previous Genealogy Poetry Challenges.
I think that the New England weather always surprised
Grammy. It was not as mild and as
predictable as the weather in England. Many of her poems are about weather,
seasons, and nature. The one I
transcribed below is a poem she would often recite to me when I was a little
girl. The last line makes me think that she was happy to have become a U.S.
citizen.
Spring Time
By Bertha Roberts Wilkinson
Old man
winter with a sigh
Knew that he must say good bye
Miss Spring
softly enters in
Now the pleasant days begin
Windy March
with huff and puff
Miss Spring calls “Now, that’s
enough!”
Gentler days
will soon be here
For it’s that time of the year
A little
snow is still around
But the little crocus can be
found
Their little
faces bravely raise
To the sunshine’s warmer rays
Now that
Spring is here one sees
Green leaves growing on the
trees
Nature busy
waking up
Daisies and the buttercup
Birds are
singing far and near
Songs for everyone to hear
Tulips in
their bright array
Gently on their stems will sway
We see
children at their play
Outdoors now most every day
Roller
skates and bouncing ball
Jumping, skipping, growing tall
Thank
Heavenly Father for the spring
For loving parents and everything
For
mountains, valleys, skies so blue
And for this Country, we thank
thee, too.
Please click
here to read more of Bertha’s poetry:
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