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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=399899" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Three prayers during spring</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I. I did not expect this early spring</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I did not expect that after this severe winter<br>that destroyed flowers, grass and plants<br>that this early<br>without even rain falling, showering down<br>spring would come in all this glory</div><div style="margin:10px 0">with trees blossoming in bright white and pink colours<br>plants flowering<br>unfurling and to be again really living.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I did not expect these blessings, <br>in life’s early winter<br>that even though I am constrained, <br>my career is falling to pieces<br>and not by my own making<br>my words, my verses<br>are coming to their own</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and this has brought me<br>to see that God is truly great<br>that even the seasons of life<br>is in His hand.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>II. My buds are form Your hand</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I thank you Lord that you by grace are blessing me<br>causing my slender flowers to grow, <br>that you let my words pour down like rain</div><div style="margin:10px 0">hanging flooding over in bell like strings<br>in internodes, joints of roses<br>in a pure white colouring which catches the eye</div><div style="margin:10px 0">that by love you delegate me as the one<br>who is worth to blossom in your shade.<br>I thank you Lord that you by grace are blessing me</div><div style="margin:10px 0">not like others of my kind, but hanging<br>with odourless buds opening<br>in internodes, joints of roses</div><div style="margin:10px 0">in strings upon strings<br>and although some people want to prune me of blunt, <br>that you let my words pour down like rain</div><div style="margin:10px 0">although people hit in nails<br>ridicule, hold my words, my verses in parody<br>with odourless buds opening</div><div style="margin:10px 0">my abilities are formed on your grindstone, <br>although my stems are struggling against a stormy wind.<br>I thank you Lord that you by grace are blessing me</div><div style="margin:10px 0">folding your strong hand over me, <br>although they are thinking of flowers like roses, irises, geraniums<br>ridicule, hold my words, my verses in parody</div><div style="margin:10px 0">you are sending my verses out to all places<br>and I thank you that they are flowing from your hand, <br>that you let my words pour down like rain</div><div style="margin:10px 0">that your light shines like diamonds in every drop, <br>that you are causing my cups to burst open <br>although they are thinking of flowers like roses, irises, geraniums</div><div style="margin:10px 0">which brings forth fragrant odours, but I am<br>tempered by you to glow with an own beauty.<br>I thank you Lord that you by grace are blessing me<br>that you let my words pour down like rain</div><div style="margin:10px 0">ingenuous, pure and fresh<br>flooding over in bell like strings<br>that you are causing my cups to burst open <br>in a pure white colouring which catches the eye.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">	l’Envoi<br>III. In your shade and care I am blossoming</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I thank you Lord<br>that you by grace are blessing me <br>causing my slender flowers to grow<br>flooding over in bell like strings<br>in internodes, joints of roses</div><div style="margin:10px 0">not peach, purple or pink<br>like others of my kind<br>but in a pure white colouring<br>with odourless buds opening</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and some ridicule, hold my words, <br>my verses of rhyme and free form in parody<br>but my flowering is from your hand</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and I can understand that they are thinking<br>of flowers like roses, irises, geraniums<br>which are tempered against the elements<br>bringing forth fragrant odours<br>that perfumes the air<br>but in your shade and care I am blossoming.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>[Reference: The blossoming by Tatamkhulu Afrika, Vier gebede gedurende die jaargety in die Boland (Four prayers during the yearly seasons in the Boland.) by N.P. van Wyk Louw.]</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>
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I did not expect that after this severe winter
that destroyed flowers, grass and plants
that this early
without even rain falling, showering down
spring would come in all this glory

with trees blossoming in ..."></div>
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