CPC “PICK-APART POETRY” WELCOMES SPRING with Frost and Stevenson
Welcome to the March 2014 Edition of Pick-Apart Poetry
as we welcome Spring in a Pick-Apart Poetry kind of way.
It’s always a joy to spend this time together each month
and we look forward to another opportunity to be creative
and to share with one another.
This month, in honor of Spring’s arrival,
we feature a couple of very well-known poets
who have welcomed Spring in eloquent and wonderful ways —
a couple of Roberts, in fact —
Robert Frost and Robert Louis Stevenson.
A PRAYER IN SPRING
Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers to-day;
And give us not to think so far away
As the uncertain harvest; keep us here
All simply in the springing of the year.
Oh, give us pleasure in the orchard white,
Like nothing else by day, like ghosts by night;
And make us happy in the happy bees,
The swarm dilating round the perfect trees.
And make us happy in the darting bird
That suddenly above the bees is heard,
The meteor that thrusts in with needle bill,
And off a blossom in mid air stands still.
For this is love and nothing else is love,
The which it is reserved for God above
To sanctify to what far ends He will,
But which it only needs that we fulfill.
Robert Frost (1915)
SPRING CAROL
When loud by landside streamlets gush,
And clear in the greenwood quires the thrush,
With sun on the meadows
And songs in the shadows
Comes again to me
The gift of the tongues of the lea,
The gift of the tongues of meadows.
Straightway my olden heart returns
And dances with the dancing burns;
It sings with the sparrows;
To the rain and the (grimy) barrows
Sings my heart aloud—
To the silver-bellied cloud,
To the silver rainy arrows.
It bears the song of the skylark down,
And it hears the singing of the town;
And youth on the highways
And lovers in byways Follows and sees:
And hearkens the song of the leas
And sings the songs of the highways.
So when the earth is alive with gods,
And the lusty ploughman breaks the sod,
And the grass sings in the meadows,
And the flowers smile in the shadows,
Sits my heart at ease,
Hearing the song of the leas,
Singing the songs of the meadows.
Robert Louis Stevenson (from New Poems and Variant Readings, 1918)
Please select your 25 words from these two pieces
and create a new piece using only those 25 words.
Remember though that those 25 words may be repeated
and tenses changed so you are not limited to a 25-word piece.
Your piece may certainly end up being much,
much longer than 25 words.
We look forward to what we create
and bring to share with one another.
Happy March and Happy Spring!
~Barb and Cherie~
Happy Tuesday Evening and Happy Spring and Welcome to our March “Pick-Apart Poetry” Get-Together. We’re looking forward to sharing what flows from our collective imaginations. While our theme is Spring, please don’t feel limited to that theme alone. We welcome all themes and types of poetry and writing in general. Feel free to share multi-media as well. Looking forward to this time together. :love: :love: :love: and (((HUGS)))
SPRING PRAYER
The white nights of the year end!
Oh Spring days, give us pleasure!
Make us happy!
Sanctify and fulfill needs!
Spring is reserved for harvesting love,
and nothing else.
Smile in my heart
Dancing songs of my youth
Year to year darting like ghosts
Spring flowers blossom
Shadows of love
Come again to me….
Cherie c2014
Well….those third graders wait for no one….heheheheeh So, to sleep I go….hugs and see everyone in the morning!!!!!
GRACE
~
Give us pleasure
And give us not to think
Keep us here
Else by day ghosts by night
Make happy bees
Perfect trees
Make us happy darting bird
Is heard
This is love
For God above
~
Written By: Bettie Davis —————————— © March 25 , 2o14
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WITH SPRING’S RETURN
My heart smiles
with the return of spring,
dancing among the flowers
as the bees happily dart
from blossom to blossom
in the meadows
and byways
of my youth.
(c) barbara kausteklis 3-25-14
I’m off to dreamland as well. See you in the morning and looking forward to reading over coffee. Good Night and rest well. :love: :love: :love:
Have a beautiful day everyone…… :love: :love: :love: :love: :love: :love: :love: