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Ring in Spring!
Ring in Spring!
This is the Ring in Spring thread, where anyone and everyone can gush all they want about the joys and wonders of spring. I am awfully excited for when it fully arrives, so I just have to express all this bottled up emotion somehow!
submitted by JFB, age 13, Here and There
(May 2, 2009 - 7:45 am)
(May 2, 2009 - 7:45 am)
In one of the Emily of New Moon books by L.M. Montgomery, one of the characters says, speaking of poetry, "Spring has been responsible for more trash than anything else in the history of the world." Or something like that. I, at least, am fully dedicated to providing my share of that "trash" while trying to capture the essence of immortal youth and rebirth in my cheesy little rhymes. Some of my worst poems are about spring, and some of the best as well. It seems like the very air is nectar and ambrossia drenched with the elixer of life. I love spring! Ok, sorry, I have to gush sometimes too.
-EH
(May 4, 2009 - 2:20 pm)
I remember that part of Emily of New Moon! :)
(May 4, 2009 - 5:32 pm)
I don't know which book it is - probably Emily Climbs. I use it to quell my enthusiasm whenever I'm in danger of unleashing a horror of cheesyness on the springy world. Sometimes I can't read my own spring poems without laughing at them. Which is why I try not to write them. Oh, well. I'm rambling. Sorry.
-EH
(May 5, 2009 - 4:08 pm)
Yeah, me too. I've just been re-reading an old novel of mine and it is, well, no offense younger Lena, but it's so not-well-written it's funny. I might post some of it on here.
We might be talking about a different part of the Emily books.
(May 5, 2009 - 5:16 pm)
Two years and I'll see the novel I just wrote in the same way. That's another part of the Emily books - something like "Every time she reread the pile of manuscripts, there were some out of which unaccountably the fairy gold had withered, leaving only a handful of brown, dried leaves." That's a horrible rendition, but again, I don't know where it is, so I won't go hunting for it. :P
-EH
(May 6, 2009 - 2:12 pm)
Once you get over the April showers and cut straight
to the May flowers, spring is great! It's gotten warm
enough here for us to open up the pool and my little
brother and his friends are already swimming in it! I
mean it's warm, but not that warm. He "accidently"
fell in the pool yesterday...with his clothes on...
while it was raining! *sigh* He'll never learn.
(May 4, 2009 - 3:16 pm)
Haha we have a pool, too, and the whole falling in thing is a bit too common of an occurance. :)
-EH
(May 4, 2009 - 7:56 pm)
Tee hee hee:D
(May 5, 2009 - 3:04 pm)