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@ Friday, Jan. 20, 2006 – 11:03:18 am
It is a sunny morning and Spring is in the air.
This has strayed here from my poetry blog:
"They enter the new world naked
cold, uncertain of all
save that they enter. All about them
the cold, familiar wind"
It is about leaves but could, of course, refer to all of us:
"We come into the world naked, having nothing and we leave naked, taking nothing with us."
waspbuster
Nice picture, nice poem - bit chancy putting 'naked' as a tag!
I hadn't considered that there might be problems with that tag, but I have removed it anyway.
I note that I didn't attribute the work, which was only an excerpt.
It was by the American poet William Carlos Williams.
Here is the full text:
SPRING AND ALL
By the road to the contagious hospital
under the surge of the blue
mottled clouds driven from the
northeast—a cold wind. Beyond, the
waste of broad, muddy fields
brown with dried weeds, standing and fallen
patches of standing water
the scattering of tall trees
All along the road the reddish
purplish, forked, upstanding, twiggy
stuff of bushes and small trees
with dead, brown leaves under them
leafless vines—
Lifeless in appearance, sluggish
dazed spring approaches—
They enter the new world naked,
cold, uncertain of all
save that they enter. All about them
the cold, familiar wind—
Now the grass, tomorrow
the stiff curl of wildcarrot leaf
One by one objects are defined—
It quickens: clarity, outline of leaf
But now the stark dignity of
entrance—Still, the profound change
has come upon them: rooted they
grip down and begin to awaken
Thanks - a specially good poem to read today when there's a cold wind and trees and plants seem shrunken.
alfiesmum
Spring may be sprung - I have one crocus (spared by the mice) and a lot of daffodil shoots. The garden along the road is covered in snowdrops.
Is it too early to congratulate ourselves on a easy winter?
I have noticed that the bulbs around here are not so advanced as usual.
Very few are emerging yet and last year they were showing before Christmas.
Colin.
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Nice Picture.