This AM I heard Frost’s poem below on the Poetry Almanac. The last stanza reminded me that I am responsible for the protection of God’s creatures as they spring back into the concert that is SPRING!
A Prayer in Spring
Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers to-day;
And give us not to think so far away
As the uncertain harvest; keep us here
All simply in the springing of the year.
Oh, give us pleasure in the orchard white,
Like nothing else by day, like ghosts by night;
And make us happy in the happy bees,
The swarm dilating round the perfect trees.
And make us happy in the darting bird
That suddenly above the bees is heard,
The meteor that thrusts in with needle bill,
And off a blossom in mid air stands still.
For this is love and nothing else is love,
The which it is reserved for God above
To sanctify to what far ends He will,
But which it only needs that we fulfill.
Robert Frost
Jane Yolan and Mark Teague tell how dinosaur gets well soon.
Three year old saw it
once; heard it once; kept the rhyme!
THINK: make a big stink
Today on Face Time, Oliver reminded me that his Mom had the flu. And that the dinosaur doesn’t make a “big stink.” This is a timely phenomena since he is navigating from diapers to using the toilet.
So he memorized the phrase from Yolan’s book: “Does he make a big stink? Is that what you think?” Every time he quotes the book, his family applauds for the young poet. All the acknowledgment is just more encouragement. His favorite at 2 was “poop poop toot toot”!
(giggle,giggle)
inchoate deeds are tap roots
primum well springs
inspiration stems
innate KINGS
early QUEENS
elementary births of greatness
inchoate, explicit, initial beginnings-
inch worms in the soil
Would you believe? Although I went online 4 x yesterday, my iMac had a virus and I missed the authlete vote!!!! While the seconds were counting down I was baby-sitting my 3 and 5 year old grandchildren in the woods. So let the hippo ride! And anyone who wants to see 3 more versions of “inchoate”, try these links:
I heard Ogden Nash’s poem this morning on the Poetry Almanac Podcast, and was inspired to write this:
In-ko’-it
“inchoate” sounds like “cohabit”
“cohabit” sounds like “intuit”
“intuit”: you knew it
“cohabit”: you lived it
“inchoate”: you birthed it:
incipient, inchoate beginnings.
(This is not the poem I’m submitting, but is an inchoate original.)
Jack and the Beanstalk
Inchoate seed became the source of stalk and vine’s a-climbing. Inchoate size then boomed the voice of giant’s growl and sighing. Inchoate muscles pulled Jack up until he made the sighting
Of golden goose in huge tree house, his golden eggs a-laying.
To get Jack down, inchoate zeal arose to steal the day;
To go back up, inchoate faith and stealth to not be found. Inchoate giants can still be tricked by tiny folk today
For valor, strength and wily acts are not the gist of pounds!
The Vibrant Channeled Creator 