Up sprang spring after winter,
Spring sprang up before the summer,
Dormant, sleeping dozing life,
Was sprung by spring when spring sprang up!
Tag Archives: spring poetry
Spring is Here!
Leave a commentSpring has sprung! Depending on where you live we’ve had wild winds, rain, blazing sunshine, cool mornings and everything in-between. But then again, that’s what happens in Spring as the season gets underway. It’s a time for new growth and new beginnings and new life.
What is happening this Spring in your part of the world?
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Spring Has Sprung!
Leave a commentIt’s Springtime so with this new prompt we are welcoming anything to do with this time of year – flowers, weather, swooping birds (there are LOTS in my neighborhood!), the spring in your step or anything that reminds us of this season of renewal. Looking forward to receiving some fresh and colourful new poems from wherever you are!
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Poem of the Day
Leave a commentSpringing To Action
Sprr-r-r-ring is such an active word.
You can hear it gathering-up its force.
Ready to burst out a kind of ping.
Releasing its energy on a course.
It’s the name we give to the season when
all living things gear-up to abound.
We use it to label a water source
that’s pushing its way through the spongy ground.
It’s also the name we give a device
that bends and moves but will not crack.
It’s often metallic and flexible.
If it’s pushed or pulled it does the same back.
A spring isn’t always a coiled-up wire.
It could be a curve or a V-shaped bend.
Like a bow that shoots arrows through the air.
Or a pair of tweezers with open ends.
A spring can be made from a plastic mould.
A blister, a mound or a curvy dome.
They’re hidden in keyboards for typing things.
And once were used on an old mobile phone.
A pen you can click. A used paperclip.
A clock that goes tick. A peg that can grip.
A doorknob that twists. A bike-bell that rings.
It’s likely they’ve all got some kind of sprr-r-r-ring!
Celia Berrell
- Submitted in response to Poetry Prompt #34
Celia said: Many Australians seem to have an easy-going approach to life. Is this reflected in the way we say words like “spring”? Other cultures and languages speak in a more animated way than us. Can you “roll your r’s” like the Italian and Spanish people do? Or gargle your “r’s” like the French? How do you make the word “spring” really spring?
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