As one season turns into the next, subtle changes occur in nature. Winter turned to spring this year, and a flurry of poems were released. National Poetry Month saw the rise of poetry in classrooms and on social media.
Laura Shovan's #10FoundWords project that began in winter on a closed FaceBook community site continued into spring. For the April challenge, Heather Meloche offered the prompt, Early Spring by Rainer Maria Rilke. I found myself responding late to the call to write but nonetheless was drawn to this poem that centered on the turning of the seasons.
In order to complete the task, I needed to use the 10 words that were chosen from the original poem to create an a found poem. The words Heather chose for the challenge were: vanished, softness, meadow, rivulets, tendernesses, earth, subtle, risings, expression, and trees.
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In order to complete the task, I needed to use the 10 words that were chosen from the original poem to create an a found poem. The words Heather chose for the challenge were: vanished, softness, meadow, rivulets, tendernesses, earth, subtle, risings, expression, and trees.
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Early Spring
Harshness vanished. A sudden softness
has replaced the meadows' wintry grey.
Little rivulets of water changed
their singing accents. Tendernesses,
hesitantly, reach toward the earth
from space, and country lanes are showing
these unexpected subtle risings
that find expression in the empty trees.
-Rainer Maria Rilke
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Hues of stark white vanished
in the gentle turning of earth.
Verdant green meadows replaced
winter's colorless landscape as
earth rejoiced at the gentle awakening.
Subtleties of nature's handiwork
were evident in the tenderness of
shoots rising, the calling of the birds
above rivulets, and the trees exploding
with colorful blossoms. Earth opened
its arms to nature's euphoric expressions
of jubilation-a springsation of the senses
unfolded before mankind's watchful eyes.
©CVarsalona, 2017
Now please turn to the Poetry Friday Roundup at Tara Smith's site, A Teaching Life. There you will find springtime delights.
If you have an offering for my spring gallery of artistic expressions, #Springsations, please send me your work.
Thank You.
Thank You.
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