A glimpse of spring
shy blue morning
black trees etch sky
children skipping
over puddles
bramble on snow
soft birdsong
listening to water
race downstream
winds gently kiss
my forehead
grass shoots push
through first thaw
New Spring -- Apel-les Mestres
e.e. cummings -- Chansons Innocentes: I
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spring when the world is mud-
luscious the little
lame balloonman
whistles far and wee
and eddieandbill come
running from marbles and
piracies and it's
spring
when the world is puddle-wonderful
the queer
old balloonman whistles
far and wee
and bettyandisbel come dancing
from hop-scotch and jump-rope and
it's
spring
and
the
goat-footed
balloonMan whistles
far
and
wee