Saturday, April 9, 2011

Poems for Spring

Nothing says Spring like tulips and poetry.

Poetry definition:
the art of rhythmical composition, written or spoken, for exciting pleasure by beautiful, imaginative, or elevated thoughts
dictionary.com

Doesn't that just scream Spring? What a perfect time for beautiful, imaginative and elevated thoughts?

Here's a list of Springalicious Poetry (all at poets.org):

Ode to Spring by Frederick Seidel
I can only find words for...
Spring by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Nothing is so beautiful as spring...
[O were my love yon Lilac fair] by Robert Burns
O were my love yon Lilac fair...
The Enkindled Spring by D. H. Lawrence
This spring as it comes bursts up in bonfires green...
Spring in New Hampshire by Claude McKay
Too green the springing April grass...
A Blessing by James Wright
Just off the highway to Rochester, Minnesota...
In the Memphis Airport by Timothy Steele
Above the concourse, from a beam...
City That Does Not Sleep by Federico García Lorca
In the sky there is nobody asleep. Nobody, nobody....
From you have I been absent in the spring... (Sonnet 98) by William Shakespeare
From you have I been absent in the spring,...
Spring and All by William Carlos Williams
By the road to the contagious hospital...
Spring is like a perhaps hand by E. E. Cummings
Spring is like a perhaps hand...
Spring Snow by Arthur Sze
A spring snow coincides with plum blossoms....
Springing by Marie Ponsot
In a skiff on a sunrisen lake we are watchers....
Equinox by Joy Harjo
I must keep from breaking into the story by force...
Butterfly Catcher by Tina Cane
In the Sixties...
Morning News by Marilyn Hacker
Spring wafts up the smell of bus exhaust, of bread...
National Poetry Month by Elaine Equi
When a poem / speaks by itself,...
Diary [Surface] by Rachel Zucker
Spring is not so very promising as it is the thing...
Another Attempt at Rescue by M. L. Smoker
And to think I had just paid a cousin twenty dollars to shovel the walk...
A Blessing by James Wright
Just off the highway to Rochester, Minnesota...
Birds Again by Jim Harrison
A secret came a week ago though I already...
Prologue of the Earthly Paradise by William Morris
Of Heaven or Hell I have no power to sing...
If a Wilderness by Carl Phillips
Then spring came...
Black Petal by Li-Young Lee
I never claimed night fathered me...

4 comments:

  1. Hooray for spring poems! I just wish things were actually looking springy over here in Chicago...not quite yet :(

    I did a poetry post on my blog today as well!

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  2. talk about great minds thinking alike and such!!! you know it's national poetry day april 14th!!! hoorah!!!

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  3. Super selection, Stephanie! I clicked on names I didn't know, and loved the Marilyn Hacker and the James Wright - "if I stepped out of my body, I would burst into blossom".

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  4. Hi Stephanie! I'm so glad you visited my blog because it gave me the opportunity to visit yours. My husband and I have been sitting here reading some of the links to the poetry and having such a nice time! I really love your site design too. So lovely!
    ~Carrie-Anne

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