This is the literary weblog of Jeffrey W. Hull, M.D., a pediatrician. It is intended mainly as a place to maintain a collection of poetry created for the enjoyment of a few friends and as an archive for my family. All material is protected by US copyright.

Jeffrey Hull

Friday, March 31, 2006

Renewal

Spring flowers
© 2006 Nina Camic All rights reserved.


The rising of the greening shoot,
   The budding of the vine,
The plucking of the heavy fruit,
   The aging of the wine;

The counting of the bridal chest,
   The preening of the groom;
The rip'ning of a mother's breast,
   The swelling of the womb;

The gasping of the primal breath,
   The wailing infant's cry;
The suckling babe denying death
   And cooing at the sky.


© 2006 Jeffrey Hull
posted by Jeffrey Hull, 6:56 AM

2 Comments:

Uh, yeah, what Blue Rajah said.

Nice one, JH.
Blogger Richard Lawrence Cohen, at 6:14 PM  
Thank you both. It took some time to finish, mostly just staring at it, but writing a number of discardable stanzas to reach the distilled essence. Gerunds on parade. By that time, I had no idea if anyone would like it, in fact, doubted that anyone would. It surprised me.
Blogger Jeffrey Hull, at 6:23 PM  

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