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Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash. Leonard Cohen

Thursday, May 2, 2013

Spring Unprompted


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April brings clouds,
dreamlike, ethereal, feathery

Gaining height,
intensely jeweled kites lift

May’s newly opened pink quince

Rain showers tease umbrellas

Violets, wisteria  xplode

Yellowweed zydeco.


submitted for 2 prompts from Imaginary Garden With Real Toads:

9 comments:

Helen said...

... yours may be the loveliest of the A-Z poems.

Unknown said...

Feel like I'm standing in that garden, and it is good.

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Mary said...

Wow! You did A - Z so well.

Margaret said...

I read it through and didn't realize this was an A-Z poem until I read the end! Nicely done!

Fireblossom said...

Zydeco!

Kerry O'Connor said...

I only realized at the end that it was an ABC. Such a beautiful piece for Spring.

Marian said...

hey look at that! quince! zydeco! what a gorgeous poem!

Doctor FTSE said...

This is a good poem as well as rising to the A-Z challenge.

Maude Lynn said...

Wow! I didn't even realize that I was reading an A to Z at first. Really well done, lady!