Spring!?
Hocus Crocus
We’re the focus and the locus when springs soak us not to choke us or to croak us but provoke us and re-stoke us to invoke us— so earth spoke us! |
Spectator No. 3241 called for spring triolets. The thread is probably still there if you search for it. Here's mine that they published:
Every spring I quite forget that this is just a ritual. The warmth performs its show, and yet every spring I quite forget that spring is how a trap gets set. My folly is habitual. Every spring I quite forget that this is just a ritual. Actually, I just saw that they published a second one of mine (under my Erato name, Roger Slater): I tried to write a triolet about my love of spring and found I had but this to say: ‘I tried to write a triolet in praise of April, June and May but ended up just blathering “I tried to write a triolet about my love of spring.”’ |
The arroyo toad,
to call a mate, will unload falsetto farts. For a week, it won't desist. No wonder it's on the endangered species list. The mockingbird can also be heard making a gawdawful racket all night long, while I grow surer Atticus Finch was wrong. |
Roger Bob and Julie, thanks for prodding the essence of spring! Isn't "to kill a mockingbird" a metaphor for "to kill a poet" or any storyteller? Is to me.
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Yes, Ralph, that seems to be what Robert Frost was getting at, too, in his "A Minor Bird."
But patience has its limits. I read once that mockingbirds' main predators are Great Horned Owls, but they're noisy at night, too. |
Spring has sprung,
the grass has risen. Let Trump be hung, or at least in prison. Okay, I know it's "hanged," but what the heck. |
My Mockingbards
Mockingbirds that mimic tunes of springtime’s robins, larks and doves can even voice the laughs of loons. These avian thieves that echo tunes inspire the bards who croon of moons and Junes when courting their coy loves with words that resonate the tunes of loons, spring robins, larks and doves. From Asses of Parnassus |
For the millions who have never heard of grade-school themes about rainbows and palettes.:mad:
Spring’s Palettes April rainbows are spring’s palettes for painting over winter’s whiteness with yellow, orange, green and violet, indigo, red and blue, all drawing bees and hummingbirds to sip the wildest liquors (never brewed!), those nectars deep in blooming flowers. But our Artist reviews details (pentimenti?), each season alters: chiaroscuro, colors warm to hot, those cool to cold, the strong to weak and pale—then, unseen prism tints, the essence of life’s light, are every spring’s immortal palette. |
This was written for LIGHT's "impossible rhyme" feature. I can't remember if they published it:
EARLY SPRING The dew looks like silver bedecking the lawn in the shimmering chill ver- nal light of the dawn. |
And this from my book of children's poems, though it was originally written for a contest that required the use of the word "nascent":
BETTER LATE THAN NEVER Last year the spring came early. My snowman faced his doom. The birds were still in Florida as trees began to bloom and warmth returned to push aside the winter in its prime. Last year the spring came early. It's coming late this time. The birds who are returning find their nesting branches bare, and some have never glimpsed before a snowman's coal-eyed stare. My snowman gives the birds a wink, then melts away at last. The nascent blossoms burst their buds. And winter's finally past. |
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