A Poem for Spring

good morning Hank it's Tuesday March 26 2013 also known as spring you know spring when daisies pied and light looks blue and lady smocks all silver white spring thou with dewy locks who look us down through the clear windows of the morning spring which is like a woman who says oh yes I'm here again and your heart knows I was coming spring when the hope of man as well flowers among the morning dews a light exists in spring Emily Dickinson wrote not present on the year in any other period where is this light Emily Dickinson is it down there with the snow is it up there in the gray sky of doom because that looks exactly like the winter white hey when the Yeti and I first moved Indianapolis we dropped off the moving van at the u-haul place and the guy was like welcome to Indianapolis and I said how long have you lived here he said about 30 years and I said well what do you think of it and after a second he said well you got to live somewhere I think that follow we have a lot of people feel about their hometowns but I've really come to love Indianapolis even in the spring snow it's an unpretentious City of hidden beauty which is by far my favorite kind of beauty and it's lovely even in winter but I am ready Hank I am ready for spring Hank the calendar has made me a promise that outside has failed to keep stupid outside always ruining everything so Mike I don't actually believe that magical thinking works or anything but I thought for today's video I would share my favorite poem about spring in the hopes that spring will like happen I also love this poem because it reminds us that poetry is partly in the business of getting us to try to pay attention it's by EE Cummings oh sweet spontaneous earth how often have the doting fingers of Puri and philosophers pinched and poked Vee has the naughty thumb of science prodded thy beauty how often have religions taken be upon their scraggy knees squeezing and buffeting thee that thou mightest conceive gods but true to the incomparable couch of death by rhythmic lover thou answerest them only with spring you gotta live somewhere Hank but you also get to live somewhere so brace yourself my friends spring is coming Hank I'll see you on Friday

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Keywords: poetry, reading, books, spring, weather, snow, book, literature, publishing, e books, kindle, Spring (season), spring break, library, poem, poems, ee cummings, william Shakespeare, author, john green

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Length: 2min 2sec (122 seconds)

Published: Tue Mar 26 2013