O Spring-time sweet!
The whole Earth smiles, thy coming to greet.
Hen Hop
This joyful short animation features a dancing hen that transforms into an egg. The film was made without a camera by Norman McLaren, who drew directly onto 35 mm movie stock with ordinary pen and ink. Colour was added optically.
Spring Storm
The sky has given over
its bitterness.
Out of the dark change
all day long
rain falls and falls
as if it would never end.
Still the snow keeps
its hold on the ground.
But water, water
from a thousand runnels!
It collects swiftly,
dappled with black
cuts a way for itself
through green ice in the gutters.
Drop after drop it falls
from the withered grass-stems
of the overhanging embankment.
Spring
Nothing is so beautiful as Spring –
When weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush;
Thrush’s eggs look little low heavens, and thrush
Through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring
The ear, it strikes like lightnings to hear him sing;
The glassy peartree leaves and blooms, they brush
The descending blue; that blue is all in a rush
With richness; the racing lambs too have fair their fling.What is all this juice and all this joy?
A strain of the earth’s sweet being in the beginning
In Eden garden. – Have, get, before it cloy,
Before it cloud, Christ, lord, and sour with sinning,
Innocent mind and Mayday in girl and boy,
Most, O maid’s child, thy choice and worthy the winning.
How to Meet a Flower
Looking to learn more about wildflowers this spring? Consider introducing yourself first.
Remember, we all stumble
So stay humble
As you find and make your way
And that it’s okay
To not always know
How the path will unfold
But you do have a role in how the story will be told
If you remain bold
With the courage of persisting on
Remembering that all good trails curve and meander
But it doesn’t make them any less exciting to behold, and wonder
What’s around the turn
If you cease to uphold
The idea that it should all be known and controlled
Adventure on
Maine Coon
Happy International Haiku Poetry Day!
crouched before the couch,
suddenly, cat has all night
for just one sound: mouse
The Maine Coon’s Haiku: and Other Poems for Cat Lovers
by Michael J. Rosen
Illustrated by Lee Anthony White
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