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Traveling South in Spring

4/26/2016

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And maybe
that's the same thing

that happened with
Mr. Robert Frost.
Maybe he was just
making pictures with words
about the snowy woods
and the pasture--
and his teacher
typed them up
and they looked like poems
so people thought
they were poems.
                                                         from: Love That Dog 
                                                            by: Sharon Creech      
       Away from home in Spring is not my favorite place to be. I'm a little unmoored. My bluebell buds are ready to burst under my kitchen window. I'd like to hear them ring!
       But here I am in sunny South Florida! Don't be sad for me! So many flowers are blooming here that my senses can hardly take them all in!
 
Traveling South in Spring
 
                  I 
Dogwood-dotted mountainside--
dollops of whipped cream
on piled high
key-lime pie
sigh.
 
                   II
Kudzu-draped pines--
boas and stoles
tossed around
shoulders of
hemlock, spruce and fir.
sigh.
 
                   III
 
Silhouetted palm fronds
knocking against
melon, mango and peach-striped
sunset.
Waving welcome back.
sigh.
​                                                            --stay curious!
2 Comments
Patricia Kelvin
4/26/2016 11:34:17 am

Your words invoke such beautiful pictures in my mind. Thank you.

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Shari DellaPenna link
4/26/2016 02:02:53 pm

Thanks for the kind words, Patricia.

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