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Capricious Gaia
Spring hugs in extremes
Light breeze to wind-screams
Earth hymn
Bees covet what gleams
Tulips burst the seams
Life’s whim
Can you smell the rain
Quenching our terrain?
Good Earth
Flowers feel the strain
Sips of sunbeams reign
Rebirth
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Written for dVerse Poetry form: Lai and Lai Nouveau, hosted by Grace. Other poets contributed here.
Also written for NaPoWriMo’s day 25 prompt: write a poem that:
- Is specific to a season
- Uses imagery that relates to all five senses (sight, sound, taste, touch, and smell)
- Includes a rhetorical question, (like Keats’ “where are the songs of spring?”)
I’m still a day behind, but I’m working on it.
Hephaestus’ Waste & Cosmic Rubble 
Great treatment of difficult challenge!
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We are at her whim. Wonderful telling with the lai.
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Beautiful words to welcome the Spring season.
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Spring is a wonder… and what can we do but watch
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Nice poem of praise to spring.
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Fun spring poem and the you made the form fit well
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Spring is always a rebirth, a gift from mother earth. I specially adore this line:
Light breeze to wind-screams
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Gaia is certainly capricious, Barry, and you’ve captured that in your lai. I love the tulips bursting their seams and the rain quenching our terrain.
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I liked the rhythm and the two syllable ”punctuations” – enjoy spring.
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“Light breeze to wind- screams” – love that line, Barry!
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