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Bear5
True Blue Farmgirl
13055 Posts
Louisiana/Texas
USA
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 Posted - Apr 01 2012 : 4:51:59 PM
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I found these two poems in one of the newspapers this morning. I thought y'all would enjoy them.
Marly
"A Little Madness in the Spring" by Emily Dickinson
A little madness in the
Spring
Is wholesome even for the
King
But God be with the Clown-
Who ponders this tremendous scene-
This whole Experiment of
Green-
As if it were his own!
"Nothing Gold Can Stay" by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature’s first green is
gold,
Her hardest hue to
hold.
Her early leafs a
flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to
leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to
day.
Nothing gold can stay.
"It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth- and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up- that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had." Elisabeth Kurler-Ross |
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Ninibini
True Blue Farmgirl
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Nini
Pennsylvania
USA
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Posted - Apr 01 2012 : 8:45:08 PM
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Thank you, Marly! Love them! Hugs - Nini
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Farmgirl Sister #1974
God gave us two hands... one to help ourselves, and one to help others!
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Bear5
True Blue Farmgirl
13055 Posts
Louisiana/Texas
USA
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Posted - Apr 01 2012 : 9:03:08 PM
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Thanks, Nini. I love your drawing of the bunny! Cute.
Marly
"It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth- and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up- that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had." Elisabeth Kurler-Ross |
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LadyInRed
True Blue Farmgirl
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PeggyAnn
Vancouver
WA
USA
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Posted - Apr 02 2012 : 01:07:49 AM
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Marly...enjoyed the poems! Thanks for sharing!
blessings,
Peggy
Farmgirl #1326
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Miss Bee Haven
True Blue Farmgirl
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Janice
Louisville/Irvington
Kentucky
USA
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Posted - Apr 02 2012 : 04:10:31 AM
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Thanks, Marly. I love Emily Dickinson. I had a writing professor once who said good poetry makes you feel as if you 'have no bones'. That's how I feel about Emily's work.
Farmgirl Sister #50
"If you think you've got it nailed down, then what's all that around it?"
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Bear5
True Blue Farmgirl
13055 Posts
Louisiana/Texas
USA
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Posted - Apr 02 2012 : 09:05:14 AM
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I love how your professor described good poems, so true. One of my professors once said to me, "If you find yourself sighing deeply after reading a poem, then you have felt it in your soul".
Marly
"It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth- and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up- that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had." Elisabeth Kurler-Ross |
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GirlwithHook
True Blue Farmgirl
922 Posts
Alyce
Madison
WI
USA
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Posted - Apr 02 2012 : 11:46:46 AM
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Miss Dickinson herself once said that she only knew something was really poetry if she felt, "As if the top of my head were taken off."
Good poetry leaves me gasping, personally--and these just did! Thank you!
A hook, a book, and a good cup of coffee.... |
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Bella
True Blue Farmgirl
274 Posts
Karen
USA
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Posted - Apr 04 2012 : 6:00:08 PM
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Love the poems. Here's a little corny one that my mother says just about every time she hears a crow caw.
Caw, Caw, said the crow.
Spring has come again I know.
Just as sure as I am born.
There's the farmer planting corn.
"Just living is not enough, said the butterfly. One must have freedom, sunshine and a little flower." -Hans Christian Anderson |
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Bear5
True Blue Farmgirl
13055 Posts
Louisiana/Texas
USA
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Posted - Apr 05 2012 : 2:43:42 PM
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I like that poem. I'll remember that the next time I hear the crows; caw, caw!
Thanks for sharing.
Marly
"It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth- and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up- that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had." Elisabeth Kurler-Ross |
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prariehawk
True Blue Farmgirl
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Cindy
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Posted - Apr 05 2012 : 3:20:13 PM
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I like all these poems. I wish I could find the poem "in Just Spring" by e.e.cummings. But I can't remember what book it's in.
Cindy
"Vast floods can't quench love, no matter what love did/ Rivers can't drown love, no matter where love's hid"--Sinead O'Connor
"In many ways, you don't just live in the country, it lives inside you"--Ellen Eilers
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forgetmenot
True Blue Farmgirl
3602 Posts
Judith
Nora Springs
IA
USA
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Posted - Apr 06 2012 : 08:06:02 AM
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I just typed "in just spring" into my search and up came the poem. Lovely! Thank you all for sharing. Another Emily Dickinson poem here.
Farmgirl sister #3926
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but the belief that something is more important than fear." Ambrose Red Moon |
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lisalisa
True Blue Farmgirl
216 Posts
Lisa
Broomall
PA
USA
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Posted - Apr 09 2012 : 11:03:15 AM
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Nothing Gold Can Stay is by Robert Frost! (It's the first poem I ever read by Robert Frost.)
ee cummings! in Just ( I love that poem too!)
You ladies have good taste!  |
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smiley
True Blue Farmgirl
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lea
pea ridge
arkansas
USA
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Posted - Apr 15 2012 : 7:42:11 PM
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