where i broke off a stem,
white drops oozed
in a milky trickle from the plant
growing wild
in the vacant lot next door.
“bring the plant you found
it on,” my mother had said
as we settled my caterpillar
in the glass quart jar
that would be its home.
i liked to pound the hammer
on a sharp nail, driving
breathing holes into the jar lid
after [...]
On Sundays in rows of chaos,
Children shouting over a tinny piano,
Spring was popping popcorn —
Week after week, we took it in armfuls.
As a teen, blooming was the last breath of winter.
The snow having seeped into roots of trees,
Pushing methodically to tips of limbs,
Bursting into blossom, then blowing off again in flaky grace.
And there’s still this [...]
Something curious all around, in everything I see.
A rippled wave against the world
first pushes against me.
I see it when you enter here, all breathless tides withdrawn,
and heavy moon within my heart,
recedes into the dawn.
A softer joy within your eye becomes my emerald star,
and skies lit up with comet smiles
stretch near to ears afar.
Like springtime’s hush, [...]
‘Twas yesterday I saw a crack
That stretched across the sky.
It pushed the silken curtains back
And hung the trees to dry.
It glittered gold—A shining slice
Of glorious pearly cream
And shattered all the sadness ’round
With its single shining beam.
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Mary-Celeste Lewis has golden hair, blue eyes, and loves to play with her nieces and nephews. When she’s not [...]
Naturally we’re turning romantic
I guess it’s age
But maybe we were just like this
From the very beginning.
Spring it’s coming, see the birds,
She says,
I say
Yeah, spring is close
It’s the greatest time of the year
She says,
I say,
Yeah, mine too.
But I can’t help but keep on
Thinking what the heck
Has to do spring
With my favourite team’s winning streak.
I guess it’s [...]
Slowly, after evening has gathered her stars,
Daybreak quietly spreads over the meadowland.
Foxglove and larkspur rise like tranquil towers
Floating in the shadowy, purple dawn.
Briar patches, woven with dewy blackberries,
Hedge around crooked oaks where sparrows
Flit in the branches. Small clouds of palest pink,
Mushroom in the soft-born morning light,
And linger above the violet embroidered vales.
Soon, all the budding [...]
Arthur wrote the music and lyrics to “You’re Better Than That.” He also plays the instruments (keys, bass, piano, lead vocals). His brother Thomas Hatton wrote and sings the backup harmonies.
Listen to “You’re Better Than That”
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Arthur Hatton is a psychology student, songwriter, and founder of Linescratchers.com, the only website online that features and interviews LDS [...]
“can you smell it?”
“what?” you asked.
“the spring,” said i.
the corpse of lifeless leaf crackled,
cracked, &
croaked beneath the grinding heel of
passersby. You scoffed,
and sniffed,
and scoffed again—a groaning, chill-
wind branch murmured dryly
his assent;
Even the Groundhog fled.
i
sighed: “perhaps not,” said my heart, and walked on.
Still,
i could have sworn
that–
for a glimpse however brief
–it was sunlight lit your curls.
And weren’t [...]
To kick off WIZ’s Spring Poetry Runoff, we’re starting a haiku chain. This is a non-competitive (that is, not part of the poetry contest), everybody-can-participate activity, just for fun–a songfest for many voices.
A haiku is a classical Japanese poetical form, usually 17 syllables all in a single line in Japanese, but I understand that there [...]
Tomorrow, at different times in the afternoon depending on what time zone in the Northern Hemisphere you inhabit, the sun will cross directly over the Earth’s equator. Here in the Northern Hemisphere, this event marks (as the calendar flies) the beginning of spring –the vernal equinox. In the Southern Hemisphere, it’s known as the autumnal [...]