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National Poetry Month – April 2012
Tuesday, April 17th, 2012
April 17
The feel of May...
This year, to honor National Poetry Month, I turned to John Keats for a poem that expresses the new life bursting forth in color now. In the following poem, he honors spring with a bittersweet twist at the end:
After dark vapors have oppress’d our plains by John Keats
After dark vapors have oppress’d our plains
For a long dreary season, comes a day
Born of the gentle South, and clears away
From the sick heavens all unseemly stains.
The anxious month, relieved of its pains,
Takes as a long-lost right the feel of May;
The eyelids with the passing coolness play
Like rose leaves with the drip of Summer rains.
The calmest thoughts came round us; as of leaves
Budding—fruit ripening in stillness—Autumn suns
Smiling at eve upon the quiet sheaves—
Sweet Sappho’s cheek—a smiling infant’s breath—
The gradual sand that through an hour-glass runs—
A woodland rivulet—a Poet’s death.
Here is poetry of a different kind, by Joyce Sequichie Hifler, writer of my favorite meditation book, A Cherokee Feast of Days:
A green cathedral
“This is Cherokee paradise—to stand quietly in aged timber and be so much a part of it. Even the tiny creek plays water-harps as it winds its way around clumps of dried leave and slips over round stones that are a part of its past handiwork. This is a green cathedral with shafts of sunlight cutting through thick foliage to turn droplets of water into prisms of color. Nothing is out of place—not even the walker.”
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