<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=399353" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Spring (in answer to Gerard Manley Hopkins)</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Spring has an own beauty<br>where grasses and weeds appear with brush<br>and stem, growing in full lush<br>and the sky, the air has serenity</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and insects, birds and animals are full of activity, <br>the wind quivers in every bush, bulrush and rush<br>in the veldt and at the marsh and even the little thrush<br>sings to its heart’s content with a magic quality</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the whole of nature rejoices its joy<br>as if everything has a new beginning <br>without any threat or ploy<br>almost like Eden before the sinning<br>innocent as the heart of every small girl and boy<br>where the light of God is brightly shining.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">[Reference: Spring by Gerard Manley Hopkins. Note that the rhyme scheme of some Petrach or Italian sonnets was abba/abba/cd/cd/cd and not just abba/abba/cde/cde. Although Hopkins’s verse is viewed as a modern sonnet it meets all the requirements<br>of a Italian / patrach sonnet.]</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Gert+Strydom">Gert Strydom</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=399353" data-title="Spring (in answer to Gerard Manley Hopkins) de Gert Strydom" data-description="Spring has an own beauty where grasses and weeds appear with brush and stem, growing in full lush and the sky, the air has serenity and insects, birds and animals are full of activity, the wind quivers in every bush, bulrush and rush in the veld..."></div> </div> </div>

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