Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SLOW SPRING, by ARDELL CARDON


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SLOW SPRING, by                    
First Line: Let march now blush with blossom brief and white
Last Line: And hear the crashing thunder of desire.
Subject(s): Seasons; Spring; Sun


Let March now blush with blossom brief and white
Of Mary-bud upon the hem of snow,
Against my cheek make petal-tangled light
To stave from Maytime fires my senses slow.

Let fritillaries flutter to a bank
Tasting new sun against a frame of ice,
And venturesome returning groesbecks flank
A sodden cloud; let winter's sacrifice

Be hesitant, yet let pale April rise
Lovely and slowly out of sleep,
And let the coldness mirrored in her eyes
Turn into silver prelude at my feet,

And daffodils and irises, star-flowers,
Like candles multiple and burning long
Above the grassy ocean of the hours,
Placating stormy voices, be upborne.

Then let me stand, perpendent in the sun,
Rooted in snow, my fingers dripping fire,
And feel the lightning quiver in my bone
And hear the crashing thunder of desire.





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