seasons

Poetry·Rou Rou Sem — Autumn comes alive through sensory comparisons — rainbows after rain, warm pumpkin seeds, leaves showering down, and sun playing hide-and-seek with clouds.

Poetry·Gia Koo — A child observes a lime tree through the seasons, noting its winter bareness, spring birdsong, summer growth, and autumn abundance of leaves.

Poetry·Grace Zhuang — A young poet captures summer through garden growth, beach days, and songs, ending with a wistful plea for the season to remain.

Poetry·Hana Shqairat — Spring's arrival transforms a winter landscape as snow melts, flowers bloom, leaves sing, and the natural world awakens to renewed life.

Story·Chris Yihan Ye — During extreme seasons—windy spring, scorching summer, cool fall, freezing winter—various animals struggle with weather challenges while their companions offer practical solutions they refuse.

Poetry·Gemma Crimmins — A rhythmic poem cycles through the seasons, from winter's wind to spring's hum to summer's speed, ending where it began with winter returning.

Poetry·Clark Liu, age 9 — A child captures autumn's arrival through sound patterns, describing wool sweaters, breezy sneezes, chattering trees, and red leaves flooding streets like a stream.

Poetry·Katja Muckle Eizenberg — A sunflower narrates its life cycle from bloom to seed dispersal, watching its seeds fly away to freedom before entering winter's sleep.

Poetry·Celia Chen — A speaker anxiously checks for signs of spring's arrival, moving from uncertainty to joyful confirmation as frost melts and soil awakens.

Poetry·Xi Huang — Fragmented observations from a desk window capture April's blooming world through colors, birds, and flowers in stream-of-consciousness style.