Sunday, June 25, 2006 ; 10:49 PM
ah...how beautiful and splendid poetry is. Soothes the soul and paints a thousand pictures so vividly.
The Enkindled Spring
by David Herbert Lawrence
This spring as it comes bursts up in bonfires green,
Wild puffing of emerald trees, and flame-filled bushes,
Thorn-blossom lifting in wreaths of smoke between
Where the wood fumes up, and the flickering, watery rushes.
I am amazed at this spring, this conflagration
Of green fires lit on the soil of the earth, this blaze
Of growing, these sparks that puff in wild gyration,
Faces of people streaming across my gaze.
And I, what fountain of fire am I among
This leaping combustion of spring? My spirit is tossed
About like a shadow buffeted in the throng
Of flames, a shadow that's gone astray, and is lost.
Extracted from:
Poetry Foundation
Dreaming of a new day ahead!;
Just making my way through the crowd