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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SPRING STRAINS, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poet's Biography
First Line: In a tissue-thin monotone of blue-grey buds
Last Line: Flung outward and up -- disappearing suddenly!
Subject(s): Spring
First Line: In a tissue-thin monotone of blue-grey buds
Last Line: Flung outward and up -- disappearing suddenly!
Subject(s): Spring
In a tissue-thin monotone of blue-grey buds
crowded erect with desire against
the sky --
tense blue-grey twigs
slenderly anchoring them down, drawing
them in --
two blue-grey birds chasing
a third struggle in circles, angles,
swift convergings to a point that bursts
instantly!
Vibrant bowing limbs
pull downward, sucking in the sky
that bulges from behind, plastering itself
against them in packed rifts, rock blue
and dirty orange!
But --
(Hold hard, rigid jointed trees!)
the blinding and red-edged sun-blur --
creeping energy, concentrated
counterforce -- welds sky, buds, trees,
rivets them in one puckering hold!
Sticks through! Pulls the whole
counter-pulling mass upward, to the right,
locks even the opaque, not yet defined
ground in a terrific drag that is
loosening the very tap-roots!
On a tissue-thin monotone of blue-grey buds
two blue-grey birds, chasing a third,
at full cry! Now they are
flung outward and up -- disappearing suddenly!
Other Poems of Interest...
SPRING FOR THOMAS HARDY by ANTHONY HECHT
SPRING LEMONADE by TONY HOAGLAND
A SPRING SONG by LYMAN WHITNEY ALLEN
SPRING'S RETURN by GEORGE LAWRENCE ANDREWS
ODE TO SPRING by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD
ODE TO SPRING by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD
SPRING FLOODS by MAURICE BARING
SPRING IN WINTER by CHARLOTTE FISKE BATES
SPRING ON THE PRAIRIE by HERBERT BATES
THE FARMER'S BOY: SPRING by ROBERT BLOOMFIELD