It’s Day 3 of our countdown to National Poetry Day. We are celebrating with poems for children So far we have had George Szirtes and Edward Lear.

Today it’s the turn of one of the most lyrical poets I know, E E Cummings. Whilst not strictly a poem ‘for’ children, it’s so evocative, so vividly written, I can’t help but feel any child will come away gaining something from having read it. It’s called maggie and milly and molly and may.