She sings and sings and sings

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I have been so busy with my house inside I have barely had the time to enjoy the spring that is upon us….but she is surely here ..even though I picked everyone of my freshly bloomed daffs for my daughter for her birthday they are blooming as if happy to give and once again my little rock garden is full of them…and will soon have tulips bursting out too…the birds are cheering me on through my open windows and the dogs are getting to remember what an outside dog feels like..I have not had a chance to take picutres so I wanted to share this poem..not by me of course…but I love it.
~Cat

The Spring

(After Rilke)

Spring has returned! Everything has returned!
The earth, just like a schoolgirl, memorizes
Poems, so many poems. … Look, she has learned
So many famous poems, she has earned so many prizes!

Teacher was strict. We delighted in the white
Of the old man’s beard, bright like the snow’s:
Now we may ask which names are wrong, or right
For “blue,” for “apple,” for “ripe.” She knows, she knows!

Lucky earth, let out of school, now you must play
Hide-and-seek with all the children every day:
You must hide that we may seek you: we will! We will!

The happiest child will hold you. She knows all the things
You taught her: the word for “hope,” and for “believe,”
Are still upon her tongue. She sings and sings and sings.

~ Delmore Schwartz ~

(Last & Lost Poems)

7 Apr, 2009
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Gilli

Great poem Cat. Get out there and have a day in the sun and the Spring...You know what they say....."All work and no play makes Cj a dull girl...." Hee hee hee.

8 Apr, 2009

Toto

Nice poem Cat. Hope your decorating is now coming to an end and you can get out where you belong and enjoy your garden and the countryside. I bet Flash would love to take you for a nice long ride.
Glad to have you back on Goy. Try not to leave it so long before you contribute again or you'll be up before the committee. You have been missed.

8 Apr, 2009