Mud by Polly Chase Boyden - Your Daily Poem

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Critter/Plants/Art:
I had to learn this poem in second grade (1957-58) at Centerville Elementary School, Anderson, South Carolina, and remember most of it to this day. I'd always left our the part about wading wiggle mud than smelling a yellow rose.Thank you Mrs. Majors, for helping me to learn something that has stayed with me over 60 years. Being a gardener, I used the quote frequently. Diane Taylor Hayes
Posted 02/03/2022 10:35 PM

Donald :
Donald Wortman: In 1956 I was in second grade. I was just looking through library books. I saw a color print of a little girl standing next to a yellow rose bush with her feet in the mud. I read the poem Mud over and over. When I came back to the library I remembered where the book was on the shelf and I read it again. This was the first poem I ever read and I never forgot.
Posted 09/16/2021 08:21 PM

MustangSilly:
I remember this poem from a Ladybird Book of children's poems from the 1970s. I was looking on line for it to put in a scrapbook with photos if my daughter who loves mud so much.
Posted 06/16/2021 09:45 AM

rileytrumbull:
Polly Boyden knew just about ever literary light inearly mid-century America, and she hosted most of them Her book The Pink Egg even had a sort of cult following among them...She lived in Truro on the Cape for many years and her house was open to any one who was witty, erudite, intellectual...or just fun. A remarkable person whose light appears to have been "under a bushel". Worth researching! Caroline Riley Trumbull - I knew her in the 60's
Posted 04/10/2021 10:34 PM

Sharon Mathias:
I wish I could see that "little poetry book" that fer has - I had a pink book "Poetry for Children" when I was a child that had this wonderful Mud poem in it, and lots of other good ones. "Nobody else but the rosebush knows!"
Posted 10/30/2020 02:40 AM

Katrina:
Nice ;) gloppy and almost fun-ctional
Posted 08/31/2013 08:12 AM

fer:
Ah, the memories.... I knew just how to make the best mud all squishy-squashy between the toes and even found a V nickel while doing so one time. I still have a little poetry book with this poem in it, with credit given to Child Life Magazine, copyright 1930 -- that's all.
Posted 08/31/2013 06:16 AM