{"id":10296,"date":"2019-03-21T19:39:16","date_gmt":"2019-03-21T19:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/?p=10296"},"modified":"2019-03-21T19:42:25","modified_gmt":"2019-03-21T19:42:25","slug":"springs-here-and-my-spirit-is-tossed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/2019\/03\/springs-here-and-my-spirit-is-tossed\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring’s here and my spirit is tossed"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Hello friends.<\/strong> Spring is officially here. The calendar tells me so. Today is a cold spring day in Chicago.<\/p>\n

Lots of art focuses on the renewal of spring as something to celebrate.\u00a0 And usually in spring my spirits are lifted, but sometimes, I experience a moment of missing winter. Not the frigid temps and winds and snows but the mindset of winter. I feel unprepared, like I need a few more days.<\/p>\n

So that’s what inspired me to share “The Enkindled Spring”<\/strong> by D. H. Lawrence.<\/strong> The last lines express a familiar feeling.<\/p>\n

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Ogawa Kazumasa<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

If you want to see some exquisite spring-y photographs, which have just come into the public domain, check out Ogawa Kazumasa\u2019s Hand-Coloured Photographs of Flowers (1896), <\/strong><\/a>which I read about in The P<\/strong>ublic Domain Review<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

Hope you have spring energy and a bit of winter indolence.<\/p>\n

Peace, love, and solace<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Enkindled Spring<\/strong><\/p>\n

This spring as it comes bursts up in bonfires green,
\nWild puffing of emerald trees, and flame-filled bushes,
\nThorn-blossom lifting in wreaths of smoke between
\nWhere the wood fumes up and the watery, flickering rushes.<\/p>\n

I am amazed at this spring, this conflagration
\nOf green fires lit on the soil of the earth, this blaze
\nOf growing, and sparks that puff in wild gyration,
\nFaces of people streaming across my gaze.<\/p>\n

And I, what fountain of fire am I among
\nThis leaping combustion of spring? My spirit is tossed
\nAbout like a shadow buffeted in the throng
\nOf flames, a shadow that\u2019s gone astray, and is lost.<\/p>\n

D. H. Lawrence, 1885 \u2013 1930<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thanks to Poets.org<\/a><\/p>\n

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