https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/a-poem-for-spring Style Advice for Fashion Lovers en-US Mon, 27 Apr 2026 08:22:00 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/search.php https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/a-poem-for-spring#post-1195338 Sat, 15 Mar 2014 05:07:18 +0000 Jeanie 1195338@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I love how these words dance about like rain drops. &nbsp;And puddle-wonderful just makes me smile. &nbsp;Thanks for sharing Anna! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/a-poem-for-spring#post-1193730 Thu, 13 Mar 2014 18:15:15 +0000 El Cee 1193730@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Terrific Spring poem. The "when the world is mud" part is so true for those of us in New England.&nbsp;"Mud" is our fifth season. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/a-poem-for-spring#post-1193605 Thu, 13 Mar 2014 17:11:31 +0000 rachylou 1193605@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>e.e. could just be my favourite poet. This one reminds me of Mary Poppins so much, whom I just love. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/a-poem-for-spring#post-1193558 Thu, 13 Mar 2014 16:32:26 +0000 catgirl 1193558@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>e.e. Cummings always had a sad/macabre/creepy side to his writing - like a contrast to the cutesy factor of the lack of caps and punctuation.&nbsp; The goat-footed balloon man always gave me the creeps - in poetry, I find only the beast that "slouches toward Bethlehem to be born" is creepier....</p> <p>But happy spring!&nbsp; As I told Anna elsewhere, I was a huge and pretentious fan of Cummings in my teen years.</p> <p>Suz, I just read that New Yorker article.&nbsp; Didn't realize he was such a womanizing iconoclast!&nbsp; Not sure I would have liked him IRL...</p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/a-poem-for-spring#post-1193512 Thu, 13 Mar 2014 16:03:47 +0000 Isabel 1193512@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Thank you&nbsp; ! &nbsp;I loved the expression "puddle wonderful" &nbsp;reminds me of when my kids were little we would go out and run in the rain and stomp in puddles at the bottom of the drive way.....until my kids led me back to the house ! &nbsp;LOL</p> <p>Those are good memories, thank you Ana, this really put a smile on my face today. &nbsp; &nbsp; : &nbsp;)&nbsp;</p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/a-poem-for-spring#post-1193275 Thu, 13 Mar 2014 12:52:14 +0000 Claudia 1193275@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Love it, a most excellent spring poem, thanks for sharing, Anna.&nbsp;</p> <p>This is my first reading of the poem, and Gaylene, I pictured a white&nbsp;mountain goat, nimbly appearing and disappearing on tiny hoofs, climbing higher and higher up a mountain side, tempting one to follow him. The sun and puffy tufts of clouds being the balloons, buoyant in the blue sky. I can imagine though,&nbsp;as a child, the goat-man image being scary! Sort of demonic pied piper.</p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/a-poem-for-spring#post-1193237 Thu, 13 Mar 2014 12:00:15 +0000 Suz 1193237@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Poetry Foundation. Love.&nbsp;</p> <p>There was an interesting piece on e. e. cummings by Paul Muldoon in a recent New Yorker.&nbsp;</p> <p>I love lilacs, too, Anna, and they grow like weeds in my part of the world. You can't cut them back enough. But it will be months before they're blooming here, alas... </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/a-poem-for-spring#post-1193076 Thu, 13 Mar 2014 04:15:21 +0000 Gaylene 1193076@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Do you think WW was having a bad day when he wrote that morbid ode to mortality?<br />But there is always Wordsworth and his daffodils to perk up your spirits:<br /><a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/174790" rel="nofollow">http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/174790</a></p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/a-poem-for-spring#post-1193058 Thu, 13 Mar 2014 03:51:10 +0000 annagybe 1193058@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Well I looking for something less depressing than this.<br /><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/174748">http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/174748</a></p> <p>I got excited by the title because we had a lot of lilacs growing up in my home. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/a-poem-for-spring#post-1193051 Thu, 13 Mar 2014 03:46:54 +0000 Gaylene 1193051@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p><i>Mud-luscious</i> and <i>puddle-wonderful</i>&nbsp; Who doesn't remember spring that way as a child?</p> <p>But I have to confess that this poem has always disturbed me; on the surface it seems so open and engaging, but I've always shuddered at the the image of that <i>goat-footed balloonMan</i>...whistling to the children. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/a-poem-for-spring#post-1193043 Thu, 13 Mar 2014 03:31:58 +0000 Mo 1193043@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>One of my stepmom's favorites. &nbsp;She did some artwork that included&nbsp;a few of these lines. &nbsp;Brought back memories. &nbsp;Thanks. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/a-poem-for-spring#post-1193042 Thu, 13 Mar 2014 03:28:31 +0000 LACeleste 1193042@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Yes--the quintessential Spring poem. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/a-poem-for-spring#post-1193036 Thu, 13 Mar 2014 03:22:07 +0000 annagybe 1193036@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I love the line "when the world is mud"</p> <p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/176657">http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/176657</a> </p>