Day 27

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A poem for today: D.H. Lawrence's "The Enkindled Spring" teems with visual imagery. The first stanza brilliantly captures the look of budding trees. Try out your own tribute to spring in three ABAB quatrains.

The Enkindled Spring

BY D. H. LAWRENCE

This spring as it comes bursts up in bonfires green,

Wild puffing of emerald trees, and flame-filled bushes,

Thorn-blossom lifting in wreaths of smoke between

Where the wood fumes up and the watery, flickering rushes.

I am amazed at this spring, this conflagration

Of green fires lit on the soil of the earth, this blaze

Of growing, and sparks that puff in wild gyration,

Faces of people streaming across my gaze.

And I, what fountain of fire am I among

This leaping combustion of spring? My spirit is tossed

About like a shadow buffeted in the throng

Of flames, a shadow that's gone astray, and is lost.

A song for today: Joni Mitchell's "Little Green" is track 3 (side A) from her amazing Blue album. For more Joni, check out some of these classics from the late-60s to mid-70s: Clouds, Ladies of the Canyon, For the Roses, Court and Spark, The Hissing of Summer Lawns, and Hejira.

Works Cited

Lawrence, D.H. (1885-1930). "The Enkindled Spring." Poetryfoundation.org. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44578/the-enkindled-spring. Accessed 8 April 2020.

Mitchell, Joni. "Little Green." Blue, A&M, 1971.