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Spring time is here with its sunshine and showers,
All nature is waking from its long winter sleep.
The gardens are blooming with beautiful flowers,
The song-birds are carolling melodies sweet.
This poem is in the public domain.
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Alan L. Strang (1908 – 1919) was born in Spokane, Washington. His family moved to Redwood City, California when he was four years old. Highly intelligent but physically frail from birth, Alan wrote a number of poems as a child, many of which were collected in a book published the same year in which he died--at age 11.
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Denise:
I share in Larry's comments as well. To be remembered thanks to Jayne is a compliment to both. Short life but with sweet remembrances.
Posted 03/27/2024 01:08 PM
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lhcunnin:
How lucky we are to be able to appreciate his observations still in 2024. Thank you for sending this poem.
Posted 03/25/2024 01:26 PM
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Anastasia:
A sweet poem, and a new-to-me poet! Thank you, Jayne!
Posted 03/25/2024 12:16 PM
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CamilleBalla:
So nice that Alan was able to appreciate natures beauty at so young an age.
Posted 03/25/2024 11:02 AM
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Wilda Morris:
So sad that he died so young! Prodigy is the right word!
Posted 03/25/2024 10:32 AM
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Tom Sharpe:
Spring: hot, cold, snow, rain, wind, repeat.
Posted 03/25/2024 10:06 AM
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michael escoubas:
A poetry prodigy for sure!
Posted 03/25/2024 09:30 AM
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Darrell Arnold:
I'm with you, Larry. That's one of the reasons I am putting my poems in published books and giving the books to everybody who isn't fast enough to get away from me. Being remembered will be a great accomplishment. Of course, John Wilkes Booth will be remembered, too. I hope what I leave behind is more positive. Alan had great talent. It is sad he was taken so young.
Posted 03/25/2024 08:59 AM
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Larry Schug:
Strang is still with us thanks to Jayne. I hope I'm remembered a hundred years after my passing. Way to go, kid!
Posted 03/25/2024 07:46 AM
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