Wordless Wednesday

Wordless Wednesday

"Last Spring"

 

Last Spring
By GOTTFRIED BENN

Fill yourself up with the forsythias

and when the lilacs flower, stir them in too

with your blood and happiness and wretchedness,

the dark ground that seems to come with you.

Sluggish days. All obstacles overcome.

And if you say: ending or beginning, who knows,

then maybe—just maybe—the hours will carry you

into June, when the roses blow.

Source: Poetry Foundation, Poetry (March 2011).

Wordless Wednesday

'Somei-yoshino'

pril is a promise
      that May is bound to keep.
     

~Hal Borland

 

'Somei-yoshino' photographed at Douglas Park, Vancouver BC, April 7th, 2011.