Children of the Year

By leading us with strength and truth, he earns great prominence, and February's Cupid too, who celebrates romance! Though Irish charmed and mild at times, it's also obvious that when she either comes or goes, March is tempestuous! Lovely April brings her poems with romance, sun and rain, and year to year, she surely sings Earth's happiest refrain. Fair merry May loves motherhood, so. . . sparing no expense, she spreads her arms and gifts us with creation's opulence. Coming after May is June, who, sweet and fairly young, pledges love to summer's sun as wedding bells are rung. July, great fun, shows up to play. A patriotic one, he lights up skies with fires that fade into oblivion. . . The king of lazy afternoons, although he has his pride, August hasn't much to add to what July has tried! September goes from hot to cool in very little time, sees children off to school and gives the bards new cause to rhyme. October waltzes in, and with her magic, paints the trees, then dons a witch's hat before she leaves with frightful ease. November, though he's gloomy, has great harvests he must tend and brings a time for thankfulness before he nears his end. Although December is a man grown cold and very old, he brings the joy of the greatest story ever told. With trials and our past behind us, hope can reappear within the form of January, first born of the year!