The Ragtag Daily Prompt this morning is GREEN
We’re enjoying wafts of spring here, lots of sunshine and puddles alternating with colder days and more snow. No sign of green, but a lot of brittle brown grass showing up. It’s a start. 😉
Like the Canadian poet Archibald Lampman, I delight in our colourful seasons. Although the word GREEN doesn’t appear in this verse, you get the idea, so I’ll post it as my response to the prompt.
Amor Vitae
I love the warm bare earth and all
That works and dreams thereon:
I love the seasons yet to fall:
I love the ages gone,
The valleys with the sheeted grain,
The river’s smiling might,
The merry wind, the rustling rain,
The vastness of the night.
I love the morning’s flame, the steep
Where down the vapour clings:
I love the clouds that float and sleep,
And every bird that sings.
I love the purple shower that pours
On far-off fields at even:
I love the pine-wood dusk whose floors
Are like the courts of heaven.
I love the heaven’s azure span,
The grass beneath my feet:
I love the face of every man
Whose thought is swift and sweet.
I let the wrangling world go by,
And like an idle breath
Its echoes and its phantoms fly:
I care no jot for death.
Time like a Titan bright and strong
Spreads one enchanted gleam:
Each hour is but a fluted song,
And life a lofty dream.
—Archibald Lampman
Christine's Collection 
Lovely poem. We’re also heading into spring, but probably some snow before it’s official. We’ve had a very mild winter here.
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It’s an old poem; glad you enjoyed it. We’ve had a mild winter here, too, “relatively speaking.”
(Here’s a trivia question for you: What character from the 60s always ended his comments with “figuratively speaking.”)
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No idea, Christine. I was in high school and college during the ’60’s, not much time for TV. Is it someone I should know about anyway?
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It seems to me that it was a character in some book, but I forget…so just thought I’d ask.
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