Poetry definition:
the art of rhythmical composition, written or spoken, for exciting pleasure by beautiful, imaginative, or elevated thoughts
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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... |
Hooray for spring poems! I just wish things were actually looking springy over here in Chicago...not quite yet :(
ReplyDeleteI did a poetry post on my blog today as well!
talk about great minds thinking alike and such!!! you know it's national poetry day april 14th!!! hoorah!!!
ReplyDeleteSuper 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".
ReplyDeleteHi 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!
ReplyDelete~Carrie-Anne